Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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White
I know, you never have been particularl y too hot
on that.
McDi vitt
Noo
White
Then I went ahead and disconnected myself.
I had
a lot of things I had to squirm around and do.
I
left my life vest on as we had planned to do , then
take them off leisurely at a different time.
I did
not find any reason to put the drogue pins in. I
don't think they are satisfactory in any way.
I
don' t think the pin itself is sati sfactory, and I
don ' t think the location or type of holes are
satisfactory. I will elaborate on them a little
further.
We have had aircraft around for a long
time and we have learned a lot about saf ety pins .
We have come up with some pretty good designs on
safety pins.
We have a design on our drogue pin
right now which is no more than the very first
type of safety pin that I saw on an aircraft. I
think that we are past the point where we should
be starting right out at the beginning.
We ought
to put a properly designed safety pin in there
that you can insert a little easier into the holes.
I ' m not going to try to design the pin but I think
that it should have some type of shaft on it that
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