Word: cockpits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aircraft for 22 years. He was a Korean War ace-with eight MIGs to his credit. His left eye is permanently bloodshot as a result of zooming so close to a MIG kill in Korea that the ejecting Communist pilot struck Risner's canopy, shattering glass throughout the cockpit. But Risner insists that "my eyesight is perfect"-and both the medics and his flying record back...
...remarkable instrument of warfare. It can carry twelve 750-lb. bombs or eight pods of 19 rockets each, and has a six-barrel, 20-mm. cannon that can fire 4,000 rounds per minute. Loaded, it weighs 48,400 Ibs., and its top speed exceeds 1,660 m.p.h. Its cockpit is a bewildering jungle of more than 75 switches, toggles and levers...
...generate suspense, Crossbow occasionally switches over to the Nazi side. Peenemünde, before the massive allied attack, is a hive of hard-working scientists and tight-lipped SS men, so earnest about perfecting their flying bomb that they put a cockpit in it and sacrifice four brave pilots in trials...
Bristling Cockpit. The agile two-man capsule constructed by McDonnell Aircraft was both larger and heavier than its Mercury predecessors. Still, there was no room to spare. All sections contained rocket motors of assorted sizes capable of firing in every direction for the control of attitude in flight, and to change speed and orbital path. As for the crowded cockpit itself, its instrument panels bristled with an intricate array of switches, knobs and dials that controlled everything from the air conditioning of the astronauts' space suits to the most delicate computer computations necessary for the mission. Everything was there...
...afraid of rain," he wryly explained during a pit stop. "This is a light car with big tires, and it floats when it hits a puddle." The rains came, so heavily that waves of water washed up the Chaparral's nose into the cockpit. Hall had to cut his speed to 10 m.p.h. But the Ferrari was having trouble too, gave up with four hours to go. The rain stopped, and the race was over. At 10 p.m., still five laps ahead and coasting, Hall swept under the checkered flag and gaily called for a bottle of champagne...