escape hatch


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hatchway that provides a means of escape in an emergency

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We have all seen too many films where the heroine has become trapped, had to climb out of one of the little artex tiles that is actually an escape hatch, lay on top of the lift, then risk getting squished by an elevator coming down from above.
The climbing frame can be a spaceship or a castle, the slide a dinosaur's back or aeroplane escape hatch."
Behind it was a 50-cm (20 inch) by 50-cm escape hatch.
But it also ruled that the section contains an escape hatch. The section requires the Legislature to prepare reports on how it is complying with the funding mandate.
Companies competing for the right to ferry station astronauts need to design a spacecraft that can seat a crew of four or more and be equipped with life support systems and an escape hatch in case of emergency.
But JS left itself an escape hatch: Its bid was non-binding, which is almost unheard of in bankruptcy proceedings.
(NOTE: It is very important that both panels be mounted as close as possible to the center-mounted hinge so that they are viewed as one panel through a thermal optic instead of two.) Side panel 01-609-3878 Contains one panel that mounts on the (escape hatch) crew escape/ingress/egress hatch on the left side of the vehicle
Among the notable VR-12 airframe systems is the "hatch mount" version, an integrated antenna system and radome package that drops into the escape hatch of a C-130 aircraft.
As result of this testing, major design modifications were implemented which mainly consisted of a second external fuselage skin over the entire length of the fuselage side windows and escape hatch areas riveted to the original fuselage skin and frames.
Political gddlock is an obvious problem--but it also provides an opportune escape hatch. Don't extend the Bush era tax cuts, put the national debt on a more sustainable path, and keep long-term interest rates down, they suggest.
It must be time to start looking for the escape hatch that leads to fresh enthusiasm from the supporters.
"They're trained to think that this act of politeness is actually an escape hatch for you, giving you a way out of the conversation," sales expert Steve Kloyda says.
In that case, an emergency escape hatch opens to let the rider out.
One of them lands and a vaguely humanoid creature steps slowly out of the escape hatch.
Deer formed Mohawk Princess Pictures in 2006, which produced her first short fiction called Escape Hatch, a dramedy about the romantic misadventures of a Mohawk woman on her quest for love.