Exploding Cockpit
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Title (Dublin Core)
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Exploding Cockpit
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Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
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Title: Exploding Cockpit shoots pilot from stricken airplane
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TRAPPED in the cockpit of his burning or
falling plane, a pilot of the new German
Focke-Wulf 190 fighter can instantly blow
off the transparent cover and throw himself
clear of the doomed ship. The “exploding”
cockpit feature, found to be part of the
equipment of a plane recently forced down
on British soil, is operated by a handle
mounted on the instrument panel. When
this is pulled, it fires an explosive cartridge
which, in turn, shatters a lock bar that holds
the cockpit cover in place. Snatched by the
slip stream from the propeller, the cover
flies off. If possible, the pilot turns the
plane over on its back at the same time that
he jettisons the cockpit cover; this enables
him to fall quickly and easily into space.
Another innovation in the rescue gear is
that the pilot's parachute pack is carried on
his back while his collapsible dinghy is
folded into a cushion on which he sits. If he
is forced down into the sea, the pilot can,
by turning the screw of a compressed-air
cylinder, inflate the dinghy in a matter of a
few seconds, his flotation jacket keeping
him afloat in the meanwhile.
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Language (Dublin Core)
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1943-02
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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55
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Rights (Dublin Core)
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Public Domain (Google Digitized)
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References (Dublin Core)
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Fw 190
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Matteo Ridolfi
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Marco Bortolami (editor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 142, n. 2, 1943
