the windows, and look up as you pitch your ship, tracking the enemy in your vision. In fact, the experience of putting on the headset they way you would a helmet and being able to see every bit of the inside of the cockpit, including your hands, arms, legs and chest, makes it so immersive that on launch I felt as if my head was being thrown back as the ship rocketed out of the docking bay.

The cockpit from Eve Valkyrie. Photograph: CCP Photograph: CCP

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A historic FDNY fireboat from the 1930's is docked at Mitchell Park in Greenport. The boat will serve as a floating museum for the public.

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Charlie Ritchie, fireboat museum president, stands beside the Fire Fighter, a FDNY fireboat from the 1930s. The boat docks at Mitchell Park in Greenport where it will become a floating museum. (March 23, 2013)

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Charlie Ritchie, of upstate Cold Spring, is president of the fireboat museum based in Greenport. Ritchie stands onboard the Fire Fighter, the FDNY fire boat from the 1930s, that is a National Historic Landmark and will be turned into a museum. (March 23, 2013)

Charlie Ritchie, left, and Jeffrey Jonap stand in the Fire Fighter's engine room. Ritchie is president and Jonap