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...Coast Guardsmen began fishing out the remains: shreds of metal covered with flesh, a child's mitten, a blue snowsuit, a stewardess' jacket, a woman's mohair coat, a paperback copy of Call It Sleep, and-eventually-the body of a little boy. Part of the cockpit floated up, and when rescuers began to lift it out of the water, the headless body of a crew member flopped out into the water...
Historically, the House has been a lively cockpit. In 1901, twelve Irish M.P.s were hauled from their seats by police when other efforts to eject them failed. In an attempt to make debate more seemly, Speakers of the past have banned "grossly insulting language" and the use of such words as villain, hypocrite, murderer, insulting dog, swine, Pecksniffian cant, cheat, stoolpigeon and bastard. In the 1880s, one Charles Bradlaugh was refused his seat because he was an avowed atheist. When Bradlaugh tried to take it anyway, he battled ten Bobbies to a draw until he fainted from his exertions...
...full-scale troop carriers, and they are remarkably agile. LTV's Director of Flight Operations John Konrad took his plane through a series of 360° turns only 20 ft. off the ground, then flew backward and forward with equal ease. Both pilots then reached for the one cockpit control that would have been out of place in a conventional plane: the lever that controls the two powerful screwjacks that can turn the wings until they point skyward or roll them back into standard flight position (see cuts). Once their wings were flat and their propellers pointing forward, they...
Novel Control. At 10,000 ft. over Carswell Air Force Base near Fort Worth, Test Pilot Richard L. Johnson began the critical maneuver that is the F-111's reason for being. In the instrument-crammed cockpit, he reached for a novel control: a pistol grip that can be moved backward and forward like a trombone slide. He pushed it forward, and the wings responded by folding backward. He moved them first to 26 degrees of sweep, then 43 degrees, at last to 72 degrees. In this highspeed condition, the F-111 looked like a schoolboy's folded...
Cracking a Ton. They got their answer. Strapping himself into a surgical corset, Jimmy slid gingerly into the cockpit of his rear-engined Lotus and roared around South Africa's East London race track at 100.10 m.p.h.-the first time anybody had "cracked a ton" (topped 100 m.p.h.) on the tricky, twisting track...