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...speeds, but they are still wrestling with the jet-age problem of bailing out. Both the Navy and Air Force have been betting that as speeds rise, the pilot who bails out will have to be protected from the killing blast of the airstream by a detachable, parachute-fitted cockpit that can be blasted away from the crippled aircraft. But no aircraft now being made is designed to take a capsule cockpit...
...week announced solid progress on a new "flying seat." Using the seat, a pilot in trouble pulls a D-shaped ring between his feet. In a second his head, arms and legs are lashed into place and he is catapulted downward out of the plane. Once free of the cockpit, the seat projects an 8 in. by 5 in. steel plate on a 4-ft. boom in front of the pilot, shielding him from the force of the airstream much as an auto-hood deflector diverts bugs from a windshield. Lieut. Colonel John Paul Stapp. the space surgeon, says that...
...America should realize that the Communist government of China "is going to be a great power and a greater power whether we like it or not." She said that it was imperative, if Southeast Asia with its border problems is not to become "a cockpit for world war," to explore the chances for a joint Indian-Chinese guarantee. "We do not know whether China will behave," she noted, "but it is difficult to get a guarantee for that behavior unless China is in the United Nations...
...Nicosia last week Flying Officer Kenyon went before a court-martial. Kenyon insisted he had just pushed the wrong button by mistake. He was upset and nervous, the cockpit was dark, he felt hurried because the briefing had run behind schedule, the flap and undercarriage buttons were close together. Said Kenyon: "I have no political or religious views; I gave that reason merely because I was dreadfully worried over my tragic mistake. It was far better, I thought, to say I had intentionally caused the Canberra damage rather than to say I had made a mistake and was incompetent...
When the fuel was gone, Captain Apt reported calmly on his radio: "The engine has cut out and I'm beginning to turn." After six seconds of silence he spoke an unintelligible word, almost a shriek. A few minutes later his battered body was found in the cockpit capsule, which had plunged to the desert far below...