Word: baldwin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Naturally, all these things mean nothing if the Crimson can best Yale tomorrow. The Blue appears to be the team to beat. Anson Gardner, Linton Baldwin and George Wade are the three strongest EII runners, and judging from performance against a common opponent, Columbia, Yale would seem to have an edge on Princeton. Yale trimmed Columbia 26 to 29, while the Tigers lost out to the same squad, 44 to 40, in a trl meet which Penn...
...sounds simple," says Baldwin. But no one has done it yet. First step is to "dump" the transparent bubble canopy over your pressurized cockpit. "When your cover goes off you are subjected to what the doctors call 'explosive decompression' . . . the gas and air in your lungs and belly and muscles must escape and expand. They go out of you in a great whoosh; your lips flutter . . . and your body feels as if it were 'getting a great thrust from all directions...
...with a Bang. Human bodies can stand this alarming torment. But now comes the problem of getting out of the cockpit. "Climb out and jump?" Baldwin asks. "Try it in a plane making 600 miles an hour. . . . You can't move; the wind plasters you into your seat. ... So what...
...shell. The difficulty is getting the seat out fast enough to clear the plane, but not so fast that the sudden acceleration will injure the human spine or break the hip bones. The prospects for this look fairly good. Wright Field workers have proved by experiments on themselves, says Baldwin, "that a man can take even the forces of 20 'Gs' [20 times the force of gravity] on his hip bones for a very short period without damage...
Down without Effort. Once you're out, Baldwin says, there isn't enough air to breathe. A special bottle of oxygen may fix that. But the "opening shock" at high altitudes is too great to risk. It is better to fall into denser air before using the parachute. Wright Field has developed a gadget that opens the chute at the proper altitude, whether the pilot is conscious...