High above the horizon... in the dark of space*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=VBnkbeGLGk4
One though to J.Adams
The best book I have read on this story is this one from Thompson, one of the test pilot of the NASA (ex-Bell) . In this book you have the detailled retranscrition of radio com during the last tragic flight of Adams. A thrilling read when his plane departed at hypersonic flight during re-entry (
I am in a spin... I am in a spin) - nothing he could hve done with such primary flight ctrls
~S
*far far away from our digressions...
EDIT: good source of info online :
http://history.nasa.gov/SP-60/toc.html
EDIT bis: Milton Thompson at 16min25sec here :