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...favorite drinks is a MIG-21, a paralyzing concoction consisting of three jiggers of Scotch and one jigger of Drambuie on the rocks. Some base areas have their own bowling alleys, miniature-golf courses and radio stations that broadcast American pop music. Between their briefings, missions and postflight critiques, however, many pilots are often too busy or too tired to care much about recreation. The schedule is so hectic, in fact, that the Ubon officers' club feels compelled to post a sign each week reading: "Today is Sunday...
...copy read: "All Lufthansa pilots get put through this ordeal regularly . . . Naturally they can relax a little more in a flight simulator. But being Germans, naturally they don't. Have you ever seen a relaxed German?" The ad showed the Lufthansa pilot on the ground, enjoying a postflight cigarette, and the airline's board of directors ordered it killed on grounds that it gave "a distorted picture of Lufthansa pilots...
Tilt Test. Among the most encouraging postflight medical findings was the almost total absence of any symptoms of orthostatic hypotension-a condition that could result from weightlessness and lead to an increase in the heart rate, coupled with a sharp drop in blood pressure. Doctors have always feared that this could cause the spacemen to faint under the high G forces of reentry. But Cooper and Conrad stayed alert during both the re-entry and the many postflight tests. Every day the astronauts were strapped prone to a tilt table, then swung rapidly into a vertical position. The sudden jolt...
...Hopkins University. He could write a medical textbook on Glenn alone, having spent months probing, testing, documenting and cataloguing every aspect of Glenn's physique and physiology. After the flight, he set to work comparing these findings with Glenn's in-flight measurements and another set of postflight tests to chronicle Glenn's reaction to space...