Emergency escape mechanisms in the atmosphere and in space...
Re: Emergency escape mechanisms in the atmosphere and in space...
Did he find his sunglasses?
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TheGreenGoblin
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Re: Emergency escape mechanisms in the atmosphere and in space...
I should have asked his brother, the pilot of the Provost, who I met a little after this incident, at St Athan and who kindly took time out to show me his pride and joy....
Though you remain
Convinced
"To be alive
You must have somewhere
To go
Your destination remains
Elusive."
Convinced
"To be alive
You must have somewhere
To go
Your destination remains
Elusive."
Re: Emergency escape mechanisms in the atmosphere and in space...
The old 'top latch failure' trick. They got him up in one, he just wasn't expecting to come down quite so soon. 
A very (unlucky) lucky man. NB The boot mark on the fin - could have been his head!
A very (unlucky) lucky man. NB The boot mark on the fin - could have been his head!
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Re: Emergency escape mechanisms in the atmosphere and in space...
A chemistry teacher in high-school told us the blood boils at zero atmospheric pressure hence some losses on the Soviet space program. He described as "comrade Brezniev killed those cosmonauts".
Re: Emergency escape mechanisms in the atmosphere and in space...
That was what switched them from three unsuited cosmonauts to two suited ones (couldn't fit three in the same space). Some sort of depressurisation error during re-entry.
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