Word: cockpits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dodging in and out of fluffy cumulus clouds, a Maryland Air National Guard T-33 jet trainer frisked around above the green valleys of Maryland and northern Virginia on a routine flight. In the cockpit was the pilot, Captain Julius R. McCoy, 34, of the Maryland Air National Guard, and his passenger Donald Chalmers, 26, Baltimore law student and National Guard Pfc., up on his first flight. At 8,500 ft. over western Maryland the T-Bird headed into a thin cloud in a steep right turn, slipped out of the cloud and sheared into the side of a Capital...
Higher and higher into the purpling sky streaked the Starfighter-50,000 ft., then 60,000, then 70,000. Laconically, Johnson radioed Edwards tower, made certain that the radar trackers still carried him on their screens. Now, 80,000 ft.: Johnson's pressurized cockpit altitude was 45,000 ft., and his pressure suit automatically inflated with oxygen from a bottle beneath his seat. His afterburner had long since lost nearly all its thrust, but Johnson kept coasting up. At length he knew that he could no longer hold the nose up in the thinning atmosphere, slacked...
...addition, the controls of a modern airplane are so complicated as to require a pilot's almost undivided attention. He does not have time to watch for other planes, and when he does, his field of vision is necessarily limited by the dimensions and position of his cockpit...
...torrent. He dropped his amber-tinted visor over his tearing eyes-but he could not read his instruments again without lifting it. His gloved hands froze to near helplessness. Under his seat was the armed, unexploded powder charge that had failed to fire his seat out of the cockpit in the early bail-out try. "You're so numb, I don't think there's any fear at all. You're just numb...
...energy I ever had. I didn't have enough visibility. I couldn't make out anything. I don't think that if I had to go around we would have made it. Things were getting worse instead of better. I could smell smoke in the cockpit...