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To: Idaho_Cowboy

No pressure suit?!


3 posted on 11/14/2014 3:52:31 PM PST by eddie willers
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To: eddie willers

Pretty amazing he ejected at 70,000 and survived without a suit, eh?


5 posted on 11/14/2014 4:05:05 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: eddie willers
No pressure suit?!

You couldn't fit through the hatch wearing a pressure suit. I read elsewhere it was a design decision. To have the multiple large viewing windows (for use of paying customers) meant there wouldn't be enough structural strength with a larger hatch. So pilots, and future customers, must do without pressure suits. Obviously transparent Aluminum technology isn't yet ready for the big time.

14 posted on 11/14/2014 6:02:05 PM PST by JohnBovenmyer (Obama been Liberal. Hope Change)
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