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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hour and a half," said a high Pentagon scientist last week, "the man in the satellite isn't going to know whether the re-entry system really works. That's why we need a test-pilot type-daredevil but stoic." The first stoic satellite daredevil has not yet been picked, but last week the National Aeronautics and Space Administration signed a contract (see BUSINESS) for the hollow, upholstered meteorite in which he will ride...
Padded Couch. The capsule will be launched by an intercontinental ballistic missile (presumably an Atlas or its successor). The pilot will lie on his back on a padded couch to reduce the effects of g forces, reckoned to hit more than seven times the force of gravity during the acceleration after takeoff. In his tiny enclosure, he will be surrounded by an atmosphere of endurable temperature and pressure. He will have food and water in case he feels like eating or drinking, and a two-way voice radio will keep him in touch with the ground stations. There will...
Except for peeks at the optical display and conversation with the ground, the pilot will have little to do in his orbit around the earth. An automatic attitude sensor will operate the gas jets that keep the capsule from rolling. Then, at a signal from the ground or from the pilot himself, the jets will somersault the capsule, turn it so that its retrorockets can fire and slow its speed...
After a 22-day strike, the 1,500 American Airlines pilots won a fat 18-month contract this week. Their settlement ended the worst series of labor dogfights in U.S. airline history. American contracted to put a third junior pilot in jet cockpits, pay him at least $650 a month. The pilots also won pay boosts from a top of $19,220 a year to $22,596 for flying piston-engine DC-78. They will get $28,340 for skippering Boeing 707 jets, which American plans to put into service Jan. 25. The raises are retroactive to August 1957, when...
...pilots did not win their demand to cut the maximum work month to 75 flying hours (it remains 85 hours). But American did agree to give them some flight credit for time away from home and at the airport but not actually in the air. For example, if a pilot is on duty for ten hours but socked in by weather, he will be credited with five hours' flight time...