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Last week the Air Force tested an enclosed escape capsule that may solve the problem. Chief Warrant Officer Edward J. Murray, a parachute tester, took off from Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., in a B58 Hustler bomber. He was strapped into an elaborate device that looked a little like an old-fashioned baby carriage with a convertible hood. When the B58 reached 20,000 ft. and was flying at 565 m.p.h., Murray pulled a lever. The hood of his seat closed over him, sealing him into an airtight, 700-lb. capsule. Doors opened in the top of the cockpit...
...capsule has still to be tested above Mach 1, but the Air Force is hopeful that it will work even when a B58 is at its top speed of 2,000 m.p.h.-and when the air blast is almost as deadly as a stream of rifle bullets...
...female voice sounds out of place in the cramped cockpit of a high-flying B58 bomber: "Oxygen quantity low. Oxygen quantity low. Descend to safe altitude.Monitor oxygen system until descent is accomplished...
...B58 VIPS can handle 50 emergency situations, and many warnings are followed by brief instructions for appropriate action. After a high-priority problem has been corrected, Gina continues to report any lower-priority problems until they in turn have been taken care...
...column of ten sweptwing, supersonic heavy bombers, featuring two jet engines mounted on either side of the tail (see cut). So new it has not yet been assigned a name,* the plane seems to be comparable in performance to the U.S.'s only supersonic bomber, the B58 Hustler, which flies at some 1,300 m.p.h., has a range of up to 4,000 miles...