Word: cockpits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Triumph of the injection-molder's art is Jimmy Jet, a dial-laden gadget that looks like a cross between a 1958 Pontiac dash board and the cockpit of the U-2-and is nearly as big. Activate its batteries and an aerial view of a terrain nicely dotted with factories, bridges and other targets moves across a simulated TV screen; a silhouette of a plane also appears, and by turning the controls this can be made to pass "over" a target. A lever launches missiles from the cowling. More dazzling than durable, it is sold in supermarkets exclusively...
Experience in the actual navigation of spacecraft right from the cockpit is almost nonexistent at present. The Mercury capsule which has made three orbital flights, is largely controlled from the ground. Mercury astronauts can partially shut off ground control by flipping switches; they are in fact, told to do so in order to eliminate the remote possibility that a stray electronic impulse (or an enemy-sent signal) might fire their retrorockets prematurely. But eventually they must flip that vital switch back on again. Only a signal sent from the ground at the proper instant can bring them safely down...
Buzzing onto the runway of Bombay's Juhu Airport, the single-engined de Havilland Leopard-Moth looked as if it might be powered by rubber bands. But the 1933-vintage monoplane was admirably airworthy. Out of the cockpit popped dapper Jehangir Ratan Dadabhoy Tata, 58, chairman of the country's flag-line Air-India, and India's foremost industrialist. Tata piloted the old flying machine over the 662-mile route from Karachi to Bombay to celebrate the 30th anniversary of India's first airmail flight, which he himself flew in a Puss Moth, the cousin...
...courage is celebrated, having been much publicized in the days when he would sit in the cockpit of his big speedboat, the Tempo VI, in which he won the Gold Cup, national speedboat racing's highest prize, in 1946. In the 1948 race he was thrown 15 feet, broke...
Curses for Friends. Last week a touch of mass schizophrenia rubbed off on West Berliners. Normally they are a cynical, cocksure breed who thumb their noses at trouble. "Mir kann keener," they brag in the local dialect. "No one can push me around." In 17 years as a cockpit of the cold war, West Berlin has usually reacted more coolly to its recurring alarums than Washington or Whitehall. Even the Wall seemed barely to have dented the city's composure...