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First, before he takes one of his rides, he gets a thorough physical examination, including electrocardiogram and X rays. Then, well before blastoff, he begins his preparations for the run. The Fiberglas shell of his helmet is lowered over his head and its cloth neck-shirt zipped shut. Then he wriggles into a blue wool flight suit, puts on thin leather flying gloves and climbs into his seat...
...below the knees; his wrists are lashed to the strap above his knees. A chest strap hauls him so tightly against the seat back that all breathing motion is confined to his diaphragm. A rubber bite block (equipped with a recording accelerometer) is slipped between his teeth; a helmet visor is latched down in front of his face; a cord is placed in one hand, ready to trigger a movie camera aimed at his face. Then sled and rider are left alone; all hands retire to the safety of the control building or smaller concrete bunkers placed at intervals along...
...designed Coweslip, and his slim Dragon-class sloop Bluebottle. But they had a fine time anyway. At his home, a converted waterfront warehouse, Uffa presided over the nightly after-dinner festivities that lasted until dawn. At a dinner for the Imperial Poona Yacht Club, he donned a pith helmet and led his cronies in spoon-hammering sea chanties. Said one Cowes pubkeeper: "There's pirates 'round Cowes at regatta time, and Uffa's the worst of the lot." Lusty Uffa Fox certainly has a touch of Kidd and Blackbeard about him-at least in the eyes...
...last week that the U.S. formally entered the space age. By week's end, in millions of U.S. homes, the bright-eyed youngster with a space helmet in the closet and a space comic under his pillow was being listened to with new interest. Man seemed to be much closer to Whitman's eerie concept of other globes springing out noiseless from...
...practice, an airplane pilot will probably listen through one ear and talk through the other. The whole apparatus will be tightly enclosed in his helmet. Outside noise will have a hard time working its way into this communication system, which is almost as private as if it were entirely inside the wearer's head...