Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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Yeah.
I got a lot of comments later on that on.
That
thing is so noisy.
Oh, you know, I found out what happened, you know.
They
went back and recomputed and they found out they had four
days worth of air in the bottle--Ha Ha!
Four days?
Yeah. It ran out.
But the thing.
You can turn it off and it keeps run­
ning back there.
And it goes SMACK- CHOO , SMACK- CHOO ,
SMACK- CHOO .
Yeah, it 1 s pretty noisy.
And in a real ~uiet cockpit it really sounds loud.
This radar test #6 here at O1:3O­
Used to turn the radar on.
Used to turn it on.
Used to turn it to standby.
Turn it to standby and warm it up.
Used to observe the warmup transients .
And all this happened, right?
Yes, and it 1s on the voice tape.
Like Gordo said,
you lmow, what the radar needle did,
What it does is it
has sort of a cyclic thing when you put it in standby
and it 1s ready to run why it sits there and the lock on