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Out with the Cockpit. Unlike most jet fighters, the F-111 will have a crew of two sitting side by side in a lifesaving cockpit that is something of an aircraft in itself. If anything goes wrong and a bail-out is called for at high speed, the crewmen will not risk getting clawed to shreds by racing air. Ejected by powerful rockets, the whole cockpit will separate from the ship. It has fins that will keep it from tumbling, and when its speed has slowed enough, a parachute will open to waft it down to a landing on water or solid ground. If it hits water, it will float indefinitely. If the whole plane should dive under the surface, the cockpit will detach itself and bob to the surface.