This Pressure Suit Helped Pilots Survive New Heights

Name: This Pressure Suit Helped Pilots Survive New Heights
Uploaded: 2018-09-13
Duration: 239863
Description: Aviation pioneer Wiley Post needed an oxygenated pressure suit to survive a high-altitude transcontinental flight. Enter engineer Russell Colley - who sews together the material for the suit on his wife's sewing machine.

Aviation pioneer Wiley Post needed an oxygenated pressure suit to survive a high-altitude transcontinental flight. Enter engineer Russell Colley - who sews together the material for the suit on his wife's sewing machine. (03:59)