Word: cockpits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ordinary air traveler may get a glimpse of a control tower while taking off or landing: an area of greenish glass behind which moving figures are dimly visible. He may see radar antennas turning or catch a moment of radio chatter from the cockpit. He is comfortably aware that someone and something guides his plane, but he usually does not realize how vast and complicated that guidance process really is. To describe it in detail, TIME'S editors decided to use not only text but also ten pages of color photographs and maps, showing how a single flight...
These remarkable extensions of man's grasp and vision are relatively simple examples of a relatively new and promising technology called "telefactoring" (doing something at a distance). Merely by adding miniaturized electronics and wideband communications, says Electrical Engineeer William Bradley, the pilot can be taken out of his cockpit, the driver out of his truck. The distance between them and their work can be extended across a continent. Eventually, Bradley told the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, a more sophisticated form of telefactoring may replace human beings on many space flights-without replacing the judgments and actions that...
...told reporters that a second-by-second analysis of tape recordings made during the test indicated that at 6:31:03 p.m. Roger Chaffee first shouted a warning about the fire, that there were faint signs of movement, and that at 6:31:09 Ed White, too, reported the cockpit blaze. Other NASA control center instruments recorded the fact that the cabin pressure (held at a level of 16 lbs. per sq. in.) began to increase, and that three seconds after White's warning, Chaffee cried out again about the fire and there was more evidence...
...Some listeners," said Seamans, "believe there was one sharp cry of pain." Then radio communications went dead, and at 6:31:17-just 14 seconds after the first alarm-the cockpit pressure soared to 29 lbs. per sq. in. and the capsule ruptured. The astronauts suffered relatively minor burns; all three men were buried wearing full-dress uniforms complete with tiers of chest medals. The official cause of death for all three was listed as asphyxiation from smoke inhalation...
Prime Point. As to speculation about the fire's cause, it was reported that four days before the test, there was an apparent short circuit in the ship's system. And moments before the fire burst out in the cockpit, the telemetry readings in Houston reportedly showed a sudden jump in battery temperatures. The obvious possibility was that the spacecraft's circuits may have been overloaded, triggering a spark somewhere and maybe even setting fire to the supposedly heat-resistant wire insulation. But Seamans said that "up to this time," it did not seem that the power...