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From: gregc@cimage.com (Greg Cronau)
Subject: Re: MANY QUESTIONS (Shuttle cabin survival)
Message-ID: <1991Mar23.094700.14237@cimage.com>
Reply-To: gregc@dgsi.UUCP (Greg Cronau/10000)
Organization: Cimage Corp, Ann Arbor, MI
References: <1991Mar13.045435.3817@zoo.toronto.edu> <923@igor.Rational.COM> <8097@crash.cts.com> <940@igor.Rational.COM>
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 91 09:47:00 GMT

In article <940@igor.Rational.COM> wab@eclipse.Rational.COM (Bill Baker) writes:
>I'm sure that on the first shuttle launch Truly was thinking to
>himself, "The hell with the ejection seats.  If the shit hits the fan,
>I'm shutting down the computers and putting this baby down by the seat
>of my pants."  So instead of thinking of the crew cabin as a

I've got 2 little problems with this:
1.) If Truly was on the first shuttle mission, he was hiding somewhere in
the equipment bay. The first mission was Young/Crippen.
2.) If you shut down the computers, then you had better eject, because you
are flying a *rock* at that point! Without the computers, there's no way
to get the signals from the pilots controls to the control surfaces!

gregc@cimage.com