Word: cockpits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...company into solid-state physics in his search for new products. Among far-out fields to be studied: microcircuitry (e.g., reducing the chassis of a satellite television unit to a few cubic inches) and electroluminescence (e.g., picturing all of a plane's instrument readings on a cockpit window so the pilot will not have to glance away even when landing or taking off). While moving farther into the wild blue yonder, he is also readying new gadgets for planes. His newest commercial product: the $1,500 Navcom (combination communications and navigation instrument box), which puts even single-engined...
Small movements in the cockpit will make magnified sounds. The friction of his clothing as he moves sounds as if the cloth is tearing. He will be alone to an unprecedented degree in unfathomable isolation and in a state of dismal loneliness, where he and all of his perceptions are isolated from all things common to man's past experience...
...slipstream knifing through the battered B-47 cockpit was bitterly convincing. Obie's agony as he tried to open his eyes against the blinding force was painfully evident. And if old airmen winced when the flight control officer yammered and yelled into the tower microphone, broke in on the G.C.A. operator in hammy confusion, the G.C.A. operator himself was superbly true to life. Calm, careful, his every tone reassuring and reliable, he was just the man to bring a pilot home.* The true Lieut. Obenauf was surely willing to overlook the utterly silly last lines that the show...
...object tucked like a streamlined fledgling under the bomber's wing was North American's X-15 rocket-plane, designed as the U.S.'s first manned space vehicle. Leaving earth for the first time, it carried no fuel: Test Pilot Scott Crossfield, 38, was in the cockpit scanning a host of instruments that judged the performance of the mated bomber and X-15, whether they flew well together at all altitudes without dangerous yaw or buffeting. The first test, as the three watching chase planes and the two closed-circuit TV cameras in the B-52 confirmed...
...with the automatic pilot, and in particular with the elevator trim tabs, which control the airplane's up-or down-or level-flight attitude. They also found breaches of operating procedure: i) the automatic flight recorder had no tape in it; 2) only one pilot was in the cockpit instead of two, as required on international flights; 3) the copilot, alone at the controls, had pushed his seat so far back that when the dive began, he could not reach them quickly...