jason sweet wrote:
> While I did enjoy "Identified", I have a technical observation
> that maybe some of you could explain . . . From watching all the
> episodes, I have always wondered when they show the pilots for the
> interceptors and for Sky-1 going into their "chutes" how they
> manage to get into their crafts? For the interceptors, I assume
> that they just land in the pods somewhere which contain the
> interceptors and simply climb into their seats. However, I can't
> understand how it is that the pilot for the "Sky" aircraft manage
> to get in. In some episodes it shows the pilot, after going into
> the chute, being "raised" into the cockpit of the fighter. Is
> their some sort of conveyor with a seat attached to it? If
> someone knows the answers to these I would like to know!
Hi Jason,
You've touched on a conversation that comes round every few
months or so, and one of my favourites as well! There's no
'real' answer to the question of how astronauts board
Interceptors of course, but the idea of climbing into the cockpit
has been discounted by some in the past on the basis that too
much precious air would be vented to the lunar surface if the
entire crater were pressurised. But now I think about it again,
I suppose it could be pumped from the crater after the astronaut
is sealed into the Interceptor. Actually I quite like this idea
now - the Interceptor craters become a kind of emergency air
reserve that can be pumped into Moonbase in an emergency.
My favourite solution to the Sky One question is that the pilot's
seat is flat as Carlin/Waterman/whoever slides onto it, then it
folds into shape - a bit like the system used for Thunderbird 2
(or was it TB1?) before being raised into place.
James
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