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This weird and dangerous gadget, weighing 250 lbs., was gingerly set on the nose of an Air Force Atlas-Agena rocket at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The reflector ports were open to keep the nuclear action from starting, and a conical windscreen covered the reactor to protect it from buffeting as it climbed swiftly through dense, low-altitude...
...squadron of the Eighth Air Force's 355th Fighter Group in a treetop-level attack on a Luftwaffe airstrip. Suddenly, the Bavarian landscape came alive with orange and black antiaircraft fire. A shell ripped White's engine to bits, spewing globs of oil on the windscreen. Recalls White: "We were on the deck. When the flak caught me. I jettisoned the canopy and jumped. I felt the parachute shock an instant before my feet hit the trees-we were that low. That was my closest call, ever...
...Good Chute. As the Crusader lost altitude and sank into the clouds, .Rankin put his life in the hands of the ingenious engineers who had sweated for years to anticipate his problem. He pulled two overhead handles to trigger a fast sequence: 1) a canvas windscreen came down over his face, 2) the plane's canopy blew off, 3) an explosive charge sent seat and pilot into the thin, -65° air, and 4) in the air a cable from the plane yanked the metal seat off his rump, left Marine Rankin above 40,000 feet with...
...presidential salute to a double sundae at the Oriskany's ice-cream bar, the U.S. Navy gave Getulio the works. While he lolled in the captain's bridge chair, a dozen Banshee jets and 14 TBM3 torpedo bombers were catapulted off. The President ducked behind the bridge windscreen as the planes buzzed low over the carrier, and craned his neck as they skimmed over Copacabana beach. After watching the jets deliver rocket attacks on a towed target, he hastily stuffed cotton in his ears as the ships' antiaircraft guns opened up on the airsleeve...
...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 the blow from the airstream, and the deadly tail surfaces pass above them harmlessly...