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...shipyard. Behind her were nine months of overhaul and modernization. New electronic and sonar gear had been installed. To put in the intricate equipment, several holes had been cut in the boat's hull-the largest was a yard square, to make way for an improved garbage ejector...
...guard against temporary failure of landing controls, the Vostok was crammed with enough food and water for a ten-day whirl. For low-altitude emergencies, there were two escape hatches and an ejector seat equipped with a parachute, emergency rations, an oxygen supply and a radio transmitter. As he spun past the stars, Yuri could study his surroundings through three heat-resistant portholes. Even if he spotted no landmarks 188 miles below, he could get his bearings by watching an "optical orientator"-a cockpit globe synchronized to turn with the 18,000-mile-an-hour flight of the orbiting spaceship...
...Ejector. A hay-bale ejector that can be attached to standard balers was put on sale by Deere & Co. Operated by one man, the ejector takes each bale as it conies out of the press, heaves it eight feet into the air and into a wagon coupled behind the baler. Price...
...tried to climb skyward. At that moment the airport greeters had their first horror-stricken sight of the Vulcan, a monstrous shadow in the mists at the runway's threshold. It was in trouble. Pilot Howard passed the word, "Abandon ship!" He and Sir Harry, in their ejector seats, shot upward from the aircraft, and their parachutes blossomed in the mist. But for the other four members of the crew, whose only exit was through the plane's underside, there was no chance. The Vulcan's nose cut earthward again, and the aircraft skidded along the concrete...
...grass alongside the runway where his ejector-parachute had dropped him, Pilot Howard lay, scratched and dazed but otherwise unhurt. Near by, on the concrete itself, was Sir Harry Broadhurst. His feet were broken. In a moment both airmen were in the arms of their wives who had come to cheer their return. Farther down the runway, the other greeters watched in silence as airport firemen fought the flames, and experts prepared to investigate whether mechanical or human failure had struck down the Vulcan...