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From: David.Smith@CMU-CS-IUS@sri-unix.UUCP
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Subject: We Seven
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Date: Wed, 27-Jul-83 10:22:19 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 27 10:22:19 1983
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I came across a copy of We Seven in the CMU Engineering and Science Library.
It's pretty interesting.  Tom Wolfe makes a big deal about the Original Seven
not really being the best pilots around.  Scott Carpenter seems to admit as
much in his chapter of We Seven.  He described a zero-gee flight in the
back seat of an F-100.  The pilot flew a series of parabolic arcs, then
turned over the controls to Carpenter.  Carpenter could not maintain the
proper speed and trajectory.  He felt very embarrassed.