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...cockpit, too, there was calm. Then six minutes after the trouble began, another engine-No. 4-choked to a stop. With both outboard engines out of commission, Captain Ogg knew for certain now that he could not make the 1,000 miles to San Francisco-that he would have to ditch. Rather than dump gas and risk a night landing, he decided to wait till daylight and let the plane exhaust its heavy fuel load. He so notified the Coast Guard weather-watch cutter, Pontchartrain, some comfortable ten miles to the west. Pontchartrain's skipper, Commander William K. Earle...
...belly of a B50 bomber. Smoothly, he touched off the rocket engines and roared up into the sky. Two minutes later, he was in trouble; the X-2 hurtled to earth 20 miles to the northeast. Apt was found dead in the mangled wreckage, his body still in the cockpit...
...diversified success, Larry Bell has been easing up in the past few years. Partly the reason is Bell's health; he suffered a heart attack in 1953. But partly, too, he sees science taking over from the oldtime pioneers, both in the cockpit and in the plant. Says Bell: "A lot of the fun has gone...
...friction-heated cockpit of a high-speed airplane has to be cooled elaborately to keep the pilot alive. If the pilot is taken out, and the craft becomes an unmanned missile, its interior must still be cooled to keep its electronic brain from dying of heat prostration. So, decided General Electric Co., heatproof electronic components should prove useful in the missile business. This week, after years of work, it showed whole electronic assemblies working efficiently, though red-hot in a glowing electric furnace...
...crew, sat down behind the pilots. Engines rumbling, then roaring, the B50 gathered speed, rose into the brightening sky. Everest waited until the B50 had labored to 30,000 ft., snugged down helmet and oxygen mask for the last time, then walked aft and let himself down into the cockpit of the silent...