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...KERMIT HABER...
...present trend is to put the pilot in a streamlined, detachable capsule to ease his return to earth, but even this system will have its dangers at future speeds and altitudes. In a report of the Air Force School of Aviation Medicine, Dr. Fritz Haber considers the problem of escape from aircraft flying at 300,000 ft. (57 miles...
Pooled Blood. Opening a full-sized parachute at this point is out of the question; it would probably be torn to shreds, and, even if successful, it would keep the pilot in the air too long. Dr. Haber suggests that the pilot should have air brakes, a small parachute, or some other means of limiting his falling speed. It may be dangerous, however, to use any attachment that prevents tumbling. The tumbling motion is unpleasant, but it keeps the pilot's blood from getting "pooled" in his head or feet by one-directional Gs. But he should not spin...
Joseph Loverde was working at his buffer in the Haber Corp.'s four-story metal-products factory in Chicago last week when a belt slipped off the machine. Sparks flew, and with a whoosh ignited the fine aluminum dust that hung in the air. "It was like looking into a big gun and having it go off in your face," a bandage-swathed survivor recalled afterward...
Facing the factory's owner, ex-Alderman Titus Haffa, was an investigation by a coroner's jury. One key finding yet to be explained: during alterations the interior stairway and the front fire escape of the Haber building were removed, and no provision made for substitute exits. Haffa, who had begun his career as a newsboy a block from the building, was shocked and contrite. He promised to turn the site into a playground as a memorial to the dead...