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Pilots train for about ten hours daily. Part of the time is spent in the classroom discussing new combat techniques and the latest intelligence about Soviet air tactics. Much practicing, however, takes place in the cockpit, either airborne or with a simulator duplicating the flight situation. A new program known as "dissimilar training" teaches U.S. pilots to fly in formation with planes of other NATO members, thus providing a versatility that could prove valuable during an emergency...
Long after you have forgotten the skinny little kid living macho fantasies in the cockpit of the MG Midget or the paunchy men pretending they are seriously considering the Jaguar, and long after all the slimy automotive marketing hype has slipped from your mind, one sad image from the auto show stays with...
...Cavileer will watch yet another Harvard-Yale game today. He will watch The Game as he always has--at the center of the clattering cockpit of typewriters and carbon machines...
...lined up as if to kick the field goal. Instead, Brown took the snap on the fake, rolled right, and underthrew Gary Quantock in the left flat. Now it was fourth down and once again Bosnic lined up by the right hash mark in the middle of that dark cockpit of emotion on the field...
...there is no way, of course, for any system of sophisticated electronics or rigid regulations to keep a foolhardy private pilot from endangering his own or other lives by flying in an alcoholic haze or breaking a safety rule. For that matter taped cockpit conversations have demonstrated all too much inattention to duty among commercial airline pilots as well And as last week's disaster shows so graphically, the element of mere chance in course, timing and speed can doom even the most experienced pilots, as well as the many "souls on board" whose lives ended so innocently...