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...inadequate training and negligent checking of equipment. Since then there has been some improvement. Aeroflot pilots used to be notorious for wandering off the flight path at London's Heathrow Airport. Today they seldom do, perhaps because of Moscow's regular post-international-flight review of cockpit tapes recording pilot procedures...
...walkout, by 1,050 pilots and other cockpit personnel after nearly 16 months of negotiations, caught most of the airline's employees by surprise It was clear that the pilots underestimated the gravity of a signal sent out by Robert Six, 69, Continental's tough chief executive, who is regarded as the last of the pioneer airline bosses in the mold of Juan Trippe (Pan Am) and Eddie Rickenbacker (Eastern). In a memorandum to all employees, Six warned, "I will not mortgage Continental's future by surrendering to demands which will ensure the failure of this company...
After news came of the lieutenant's defection, the division quickly mustered a squad and flew it to Japan to study the MIG-25 and appraise its possibilities. For example, the squad will determine what the MIG-25 pilot can or cannot see from the cockpit. (In their first examination of a MIG-21, captured by Israel during the 1973 war, Air Force experts discovered that the pilot had limited rear vision and could not see anything directly above, a vital tip for an opponent in a dogfight...
Jerzy Kosinski, Polish-born author (The Painted Bird, Steps, Cockpit) and a frequent guest on Johnny Carson's Tonight show, detects a basic paradox for the novelist and television. "Bear in mind," he says, "that in this country people watch the conversation." To David Halberstam (The Best and the Brightest), spreading the word is like being a political candidate. Says he: "I call it the Nixonization of self. You turn yourself into a human cassette." There is also the nearly hopeless task of trying to explain an idea or complex subject without commercial interruption. South Viet...
...hall where the world's most celebrated aircraft hung like a child's model from the ceiling. That evening he wrote in his journal: "I felt I could take it down from its cables, carry it to some flying field, and feel perfectly at home in that cockpit again...