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Old 11-12-2002 | 04:11 AM
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William Robison
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Default Visit to the INTREPID

I was struck off the rolls for refusing to contiue with the "Other" things. A lot of strange things in them - look back over your shoulder and you could see the LE of the wing glowing red. If you could have bared your hand to touch the windows you'd never do it again, I never did, but the engineers told me the windows were over 600 degrees F at cruise. A space suit was required. Which was one of the fun things. Not wearing it, but getting it on. Couldn't dress ourselves, within was a "Relief Tube" which we weren't allowed to put on, it all had to be done by the dresser/rigger. We had a cute little girl in the WAFs who was a dresser/rigger...Yes, that was the fun part I was just remembering.

Two props, You're TOPS!

WLR