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...airtight doors. The eight men on duty in damage control put wet rags over their faces and went about their critical work of relaying messages from the bridge to the fire fighters, as their oxygen supply dwindled. "This is my last breath," one of them gasped over his headset-and it was. With agonizing slowness, rescue parties cut through the wreckage...
Just then, Colonel Baker's headset crackled with a warning: two more MIGs were poised high above him. He veered off to the left. "When I saw they weren't coming I went back after my original boy," said Baker afterwards. "I picked him up in a trail of smoke. But he was out beyond the range of my guns...
...entirely free from static. They do not send out restricted beams but can tell any plane within their range (50 miles or more, depending on altitude) in what direction it is heading in relation to the station. The pilot need not listen to wearying dots and dashes in his headset. All he has to do if he wants to fly toward the omnirange is to tune to its frequency and then watch a needle on his instrument board. When the needle is ver tical, the plane is headed toward the station (see diagram...
...takeoff, the sound of roaring engines is heard, coughing a little at first with startling realism. The cabin vibrates convincingly. The monotonous beat of the guiding radio beam throbs in the pilot's headset. If the instructor chooses to start a fire in an engine, an alarm bell blasts, the pilot stops the engine, and the controls react violently. The crew must know instantly how to bring in a crippled plane, be able to find the runway with a blind-landing system. Even the squeak of tires is heard as the wheels hit the concrete on a landing...
...composed. Propelled by the pressure of the 1,000 volts, the electron darts along one of the straight channels which run between the atoms of a diamond crystal. This motion sets up an electrical pulsation that can be detected easily by various standard instruments or by an ordinary telephone headset...