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...battery, Jeff explained—which forms a circuit through the subject’s body. If the subject sits still, the e-meter measures his or her internal tension. The subject holds two shiny metal cylinders, which attach to a console that looks ripped from a 1920s airplane cockpit. Jeff explained that triggers can access different parts of the memory, which is stored in photographic images. I sat down across from him and held the e-meter cylinders. He advised me to visualize...
...shamelessly impractical. Drivers under 6 ft. may feel visually challenged, since one sits a few inches above ground and Pontiac skimped on a height-adjuster for the seats. Rear visibility is fine with the roof down, but when it's up the glass rear window provides minimal views. The cockpit feels sports-car Spartan; our test car featured a two-tone "sand-and-steel, " design scheme, with a five-speed manual shifter (don't ask for an automatic, Pontiac isn't making one). Those bezels around the gauges? They have the glint of chrome but turn out to be plastic...
...where he was blindfolded and put in a helicopter that was then crashed upside down in the water. "I really got close to extreme panic," he says. "I thought, I'm going to drown. And I'm drowning for a movie? I'm a f______ idiot." Filming in the cockpit simulator in Australia (where the movie was shot), he suffered three concussions and, after a deceleration injury, lost his eyesight for four hours. The producer's sister, a professor of neurology at the University of Sydney, checked him out and, to make sure he wasn't talked into more extreme...
...realization that I was to play a role in history was exhilarating. The dark, gleaming, rocket-shaped kaiten meaning ?Turning the Course of Destiny?, was a converted torpedo-40 ft. in length and 4 ft. in diameter, at the mid-section, where the cockpit and control panels were located. The kaiten carried a warhead of 1 1/2 tons of TNT, with a force underwater sufficient to sink any ship during World...
...pilot trainees, we underwent several months of intensive study learning how to maneuver by depth, direction and speed. There were two hatches, one above and one below the cockpit. These were not for escape purposes; even if the pilot attempted to escape, he wouldn?t survive. My training propelled me toward my final goal: death. Life was meaningful as it had a definite and immediate sense of purpose...