Great Scott Lowther find!
Pat Flannery
You would have thought the artist would have been fired for portraying
Martin's space rescue system like this:
http://up-ship.com/blog/?p=1032
"Oh, dear God, we're going to burn up, aren't we? You are out of your
fucking mind for actually trying this....we could have waited till a
rescue Dyna-Soar showed up, couldn't we?
But no, you want a medal, don't you?
Christ, I just crapped my pants, you insane bastard!"
Pat
Bash
> Words fail me. :-D
I bet the co-pilot with the bicycle clips around his ankles was
wishing for a MOOSE instead ;-p
OM
wrote:
>http://up-ship.com/blog/?p=1032
> "Oh, dear God, we're going to burn up, aren't we? You are out of your
>fucking mind for actually trying this....we could have waited till a
>rescue Dyna-Soar showed up, couldn't we?
...Actually, he just realized what the diagrams appear to betray: The
damn thing doesn't have chutes!
OM
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Bash
> Words fail me. :-D
I bet the grimacing dude with the bicycle clips on his trousers was
Pat Flannery
Bash wrote:
>
> I bet the co-pilot with the bicycle clips around his ankles was
> wishing for a MOOSE instead ;-p
>
The thing looks more than a little like the heatshield and seats of a
Gemini minus the whole front of the capsule.
It would be interesting to know what this was intended to be mounted
in...the Dyna-Soar?
Coolest escape capsule design ever was in the Soviet Spiral spaceplane;
in that case the pilot rode inside something like his own Mercury
capsule which formed the cockpit of the spacecraft:
http://www.buran.ru/htm/str126.htm
http://www.buran.ru/htm/spiral_5.htm#strike
Pat
Pat Flannery
OM wrote:
> ...Actually, he just realized what the diagrams appear to betray: The
> damn thing doesn't have chutes!
>
Lower left: http://up-ship.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/egress2.gif
You can also see the hatch for it just above the lower thruster in the
main artwork.... although it looks like this will land you head-first,
so maybe the idea is for the crew to open the hatches on the capsule and
slide out after the capsule chute opens, to land via individual chutes
like in the X-2.
A minor mystery is why the horizontal seatbelt connector across their
chests seems to have a different release mechanism on it for each of the
crew.
Pat
Jeff Findley
"Pat Flannery" <fla...@daktel.com> wrote in message
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That's hilarious! Of course, the pilot is calm and actually looks like he's
rolling his eyes due to the antics of his catatonic passenger. :-)
Jeff
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Pat Flannery
Jeff Findley wrote:
>
> That's hilarious! Of course, the pilot is calm and actually looks like he's
> rolling his eyes due to the antics of his catatonic passenger. :-)
>
The pilot has obviously used that little ampule from the goodies in the
emergency medical kit on himself before starting the reentry.
Reminds me of being on sodium pentathol when they were ripping my wisdom
teeth out.
"Did you feel that?"
"Y...e...s..."
"Did it hurt?"
"N...o..."
"Can we pull the next one now?"
"Y...e...s..."
"That's good, you are a very good patient."
"They are landing at Normandy on the sixth of June."
"What was that?"
"Oh, nothing... nothing at all...you filthy Nazi dentist." :-D
Pat
Greg D. Moore (Strider)
But is it safe?
IS IT SAFE?
> Pat
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