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Only 70 seconds before the B-29 crew was to release the plane, an explosion ripped through the X-1A. The blast shook up Pilot Joseph Walker, but he carefully turned off cockpit switches, began jettisoning the rocket's highly volatile fuel (hydrogen peroxide, liquid oxygen, alcohol, water). Then he crawled groggily up into the belly of the B29. The B-29's civilian skipper, Stan Butchart, hoped to land his valuable cargo without further trouble, but the chase plane's pilot saw that there was still some dangerous fuel in the X-1A's tanks...
...brought ear trouble. There was a running gag of one violinist asking his neighbor, "How did I play tonight? I couldn't hear myself." One flight, between Tokyo and Seoul, ran into a storm so Wagnerian that everyone but Director Don Gillis became violently ill. Gillis. with an oxygen tank but no mask, dashed up and down the plane spraying groaning musicians in the face with oxygen. "It may or may not have helped," he says...
...About two hours before death it was decided to administer oxygen. The wrong valves were accidentally opened on the oxygen tank, with the result that a glass container exploded. A fragment of glass struck the President on the forehead, but, fortunately, with slight injury . . . During the last two hours of life the patient was attended by me alone, in the presence of the President and Mrs. Coolidge and a nurse. From time to time I examined the heart and was astounded by the President requesting that he be permitted to listen to the heart sounds...
Battle Plan. In Riccarton, N.Z., burglars broke into a hardware store and stole acetylene gas and oxygen cylinders, broke into another and stole a blowtorch, then broke into a branch of the Bank of New South Wales, cut open the safe, stole...
Ghost on My Shoulder. Pilot Bridgeman tells his story with pride but not conceit. He tells of the things he had to learn till they became second nature, e.g., reverse breathing at high altitude, when a tank forces oxygen into his lungs and he has to breathe it out. He explains how many hours he spends studying and how many sweating. Every two weeks for three months he climbed down from the B-29 into his rocket ship. Each time the flight was called off. Finally he began to toss a utilitarian Dixie container, betraying his nervousness, over the side...