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Falcon pilots preparing for flight.
Falcon pilots Taylor Thorsen (left) and Greg Slover (right) preparing for flight in the aircraft's cockpit. LaRC flight rules require the pilots to wear exposure suits for our long overwater flights, since the cramped cockpit will not allow them to don the suits during an in flight emergency, should one occur.
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NASA/John Woods
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