Word: skyknight
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Dates: during 1948-1948
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...Navy's new two-place jet fighter, the Douglas XF3D-1 Skyknight, has a special "escape chute" to help its crew bail out. When the pilot decides to abandon ship, he pulls a toggle. The seatbacks swing away. A door at the rear of the cockpit opens, exposing a passage sloping down and back toward the belly of the plane. At the end is a second door with two leaves. The rear leaf flies off into space. The forward leaf is pushed out hydraulically to form a windscreen. When escaping crewmen slide down the chute, the screen softens...
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