Bash wrote:

I bet the co-pilot with the bicycle clips around his ankles was
wishing for a MOOSE instead ;-p


The thing looks more than a little like the heatshield and seats of a
Gemini minus the whole front of the capsule.
It would be interesting to know what this was intended to be mounted
in...the Dyna-Soar?
Coolest escape capsule design ever was in the Soviet Spiral spaceplane;
in that case the pilot rode inside something like his own Mercury
capsule which formed the cockpit of the spacecraft:
http://www.buran.ru/htm/str126.htm
http://www.buran.ru/htm/spiral_5.htm#strike

Pat