Word: cabined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wangle a seat at the last moment, even if a nontitled Soviet citizen must be bumped just before takeoff. In flight, meals are heavy and ordinary, include Georgian wines, vodka and cognac. The piston planes are un-pressurized, and many of the TU-1O4 jets are pressurized to a cabin altitude of only 9,000 ft. (v. 5,000 ft. for U.S. planes), carry oxygen masks next to each seat for passengers who cannot stand the thin...
...Majesty's frigate Undaunted, which was with General Dwight Eisenhower at the Normandy beachhead in 1944, came a message out of the night: "Glad to have you with us-Undaunted we remain." For nearly 16 hours the Columbine flew at 13,000 feet or less so that the cabin pressure could be kept at sea level as a health precaution. President Dwight Eisenhower was returning to Paris, where an emotional welcome and the most portentous meeting of Western heads of state in 40 years awaited...
Overnight skiing trips to the ISA cabin in Franconia, New Hampshire are open to members only. Day skiing trips, however, are planned for every Sunday through the winter and are open to all. The largest event planned is the annual New Year's Eve party at the ISA center, at which 300 people are expected. Door admission is 90 cents...
...bomb heat. Inside is a coverall of special, airproofed nylon material carefully fitted to the individual wearer's body. In its normal, pressureless state, it is flexible and reasonably comfortable (see cut). Cold air or oxygen can be pumped through it to cool the pilot if his cabin gets...
Unless something goes wrong, the suit stays relaxed, but if the cabin loses its pressure at, say, 150,000 ft., an automatic valve shoots oxygen into the suit from the airplane's supply. The inner suit blows up like a man-shaped balloon. Complicated pressure-and temperature-regulating gadgets go into action, surrounding the pilot with an environment in which he can stay alive in spite of the near vacuum that has developed in the damaged cabin. He has at least a chance to fly the airplane down to livable...