Word: pod
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year Fairchild-Hiller, Bell and Hughes will bring out utility and executive models based on military designs. Sikorsky sees a big civilian market for its Skycranes, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development has just put up $490,000 to test whether the Crane can fly a buslike pod of 40 passengers between airports and downtown-at costs competitive with ground travel...
Flying Cranes that look like praying mantises, can haul aloft a command-post pod or a disabled airplane with equal ease-or thrust 94 men at a stroke into battle. The 1st Cavalry's transport helicopters are protected by rocket-firing choppers-and at 100 m.p.h. the First Team can swoop down with overwhelming force at any point in the contested highlands that the Viet Cong dare mass and attempt an attack...
...actually underestimated the system's efficiency, were surprised that they could get sufficient power with such low pressure and so little oxygen fueling the cells. Had they known this beforehand, they could have permitted Gemini to spend enough power for the planned rendezvous with the Radar Evaluation Pod (REP) that it had previously ejected. By the time they found out, REP's batteries were dead, and it was too late...
...ground crew was growing more and more worried about the unheated fuel for the fuel cells. The pressure kept falling; it was already dangerously low at 180 p.s.i. Because the radar, radio and computer would use up too much power, Chris Kraft decided against any further maneuvers with the pod. He went into a huddle with his fuel-cell engineers Assured that the pressure was far too low for normal operation, Kraft immediately planned for the crew's safety...
...destroyer and oiler in the vicinity were alerted to stand by. Radioed Cooper: "We've decided we're going to have to either re-enter early or else power down." Kraft promptly ordered him to shut off as many systems as possible. Was the rendezvous with the pod still possible? asked the astronauts. "We're working on a new flight plan for you," answered Kraft...