| 21. | The pilots would then steer their aircraft towards the target, jettisoning the cockpit canopy shortly before impact and bailing out.
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| 22. | The auxiliary wing was attached to the top of the cockpit canopy and to the lower wing by interplane struts.
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| 23. | The wing was mounted on a narrowed pylon which faired into the cockpit canopy, reducing interference drag between fuselage and wing.
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| 24. | NASA astronaut Theodore Freeman was killed in 1964 when a goose shattered the plexiglass cockpit canopy of his Northrop T-38 Talon.
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| 25. | This is why high-speed aircraft have long pointed noses and tails, and cockpit canopies that are flush to the fuselage line.
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| 26. | Cowell was flying too low to bail-out and instead jettisoned the cockpit canopy and glided her Typhoon to a successful deadstick crash-landing.
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| 27. | The cockpit canopy was also revised to an easier-to-produce, " squared-off " design, which also helped improve the pilot's field of view.
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| 28. | The ad's cover is a black-and-white photo that shows the top of the plane and accentuates its nose cone and cockpit canopy.
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| 29. | In addition, the V4 had a single-piece, clear-view, sliding cockpit canopy and a more powerful Jumo 210Da engine with a modified exhaust system.
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| 30. | Built primarily of wood, the SZD-22 had airbrakes in the wings, a streamline cockpit canopy, short nose and tail skids with a single mainwheel.
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