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While in the air the pilot still has his oxygen supply and air pressure, as well as protection from cold. If he happens to land in water, the capsule floats, and a stabilizing weight (the airplane's battery) is lowered to give it a heavy keel and make it reasonably seaworthy...
Instead of the Kolff lung, the Houston team used a bubble oxygenator, which pumps oxygen into a column of blood withdrawn from the body. (The methods of taking the blood in and out of the body, and pumping it, are similar in the two techniques.) When Dr. Cooley opened the heart, he found that the hole was the size of a half-dollar-too big to close by simple stitching. It needed a blowout patch. With the heart still beating, but relatively free of blood so that he could see what he was doing, Dr. Cooley took a piece...
...Rosen told the National Capital Astronomers, will be a three-stage rocket 72 ft. long and 45 in. in maximum diameter. It will have no fins, but will depend for steering on its movable rocket motor and an array of small gas-jets. The tanks holding the propellants (liquid oxygen and gasoline for the first stage, nitric acid and dimethyl-hydrazine for the second) will be thin-walled to save weight, and will have little strength when empty. When they are full and highly pressurized with helium, they will become as rigid as auto tires and strong enough to serve...
...that the hapless platoon will soon be a cork abob in a sea of Russians. The platoon has small faith in its chances, but believes mesmerically in Corporal Steiner, who has assumed command from his wounded sergeant. Steiner is one of those incurably homeless men to whom gunpowder is oxygen, and war is a kind of inner peace. A maverick with a tongue like barbed wire, he is sloppy, insolent and broody, but a soldier's soldier when it counts, and a Svengali...
British experts concede that hardy Russian passengers, having no better choice, may put up with oxygen masks, but they cannot see how an airplane that requires such an antiquated procedure can become competitive outside the Soviet Union-as Moscow has announced that it shall be. (The Comet has an 8,000-ft. pressure in the cabin while flying at 40,000 ft.) Additional pressurizing to make the TU-104 comfortable for its passengers would require considerable redesigning and perhaps a damaging amount of additional weight and additional stress on the air frame...