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Pat Flannery · December 29th 05, 10:18 PM posted to sci.space.policy,sci.space.history

wrote:

remember the pilot seats were just these kind of floppy loose jointed
things sitting in the middle of the floor with a hand controller built
in. Always wonder why they didn't have there eyeballs strapped in when
the did the water entry thing, and as I remember the "windscreens"
where angled flat at about 30 degrees or so............Doc

I could see it flying out of the water, but as you say, that dive back
into the water looked like it would kinda' severe.
The thing also lacked any control surfaces (airelons, rudder, flaps,
elevators) which means those nuclear jet engines must have had some
pretty impressive vectoring capabilities.
Ever see the Russian EKIP Coanda effect aircraft?
http://www.100megsfree4.com/farshores/!ekip_1.jpg
And it's even yellow!
Maybe it comes out of the bottom of a Typhoon submarine...the "Sovview".
:-D

Pat