Word: cockpits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kimpo airfield, a crudely drawn cartoon sums up the pilots' feelings about the Sabre jet and North American Aviation, Inc., the Los Angeles company that makes it. The cartoon shows a MIG pilot, closely pursued by an F-86, yelling "Break!" as he clambers out of his cockpit armed with a large paddle against a watery landing. The caption: "Look to North American for leadership...
...electrical system and that of a Sabre as there is between a doorbell and a television set." For a full year, engineers worked on ejection seats to bail the pilot out in case of emergency. Because the friction heat at 600 m.p.h. raises a plane's cockpit temperature enough to roast the pilot, the F-86 had to have a cooling unit with the power of 35 household refrigerators; because it would run into temperatures of 65° below at high altitudes, it needed a heating unit capable of warming 30 average houses...
...Cockpit Listener. North American Aviation, Inc. has developed a tape recorder no larger than a portable typewriter, which can log the conversation of a plane's crew for ten hours, and at the same time keep a running record of pressure, altitude, vertical acceleration, air speed, direction (taken from the plane's instruments), and communications from the ground. Called the Nadar, it is fire-and crashproof...
...airport at Santa Monica, Calif. last week, Test Pilot John Martin climbed into the silver belly of the newest Douglas transport, the DC-7. For an hour, Pilot Martin and his three engineers gave last-minute checks to the 600 dials and indicators in the cockpit and flight engineer's compartment. Then they sent the huge, four-engine plane scooting along the runway and into the air on its first test flight, while 12,000 Douglas employees around the field set up a cheer...
...level is a rather gruesome landmark in high-altitude flying. It is the level at which the air has so little pressure that human blood (temperature 98.6° F.) begins to boil. If something had gone wrong and Wing Commander Gibb had been exposed to the pressure outside his cockpit,' his veins and tissues would have puffed up with a froth of water vapor, his spinal fluid would have begun to beil, and he would have died in a few seconds...