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When Marion Sadler moved up to the presidency of American Airlines last January, he gained a seat in the cockpit and was handed a flight plan that called for higher altitudes for American. But he was not granted a firm grip on the stick. C. R. Smith, American's strong-minded president ever since the airline was founded in 1934, remained the boss from his new post of chairman. William J. Hogan, who had been Sadler's rival for the job, continued to hold on tightly to the purse strings as executive vice president and chairman...
...split-second discipline that he knew from racing for a couple of hours around three buoys in Long Island Sound. The wonder is that Captain Bligh Shields had no mutiny. But by then he had won, along with his international championships, the right to be the autocrat of the cockpit. Nobody who questions a Shields order is ever allowed on a Shields boat again...
...runway and took off -using only two of its three engines. No less impressed were the Peruvians, chief among them President Fernando Belaunde Terry, an amateur pilot with considerable time in light planes. Flying out from Lima for a demonstration ride over the Andes, Belaunde was soon in the cockpit and edging into the copilot's seat to see for himself how the big jet handled...
Tapes in the Cockpit. American plans quite a variety-show offering: closed-circuit TV pictures of takeoffs, landings and scenery below, full-length movies, local TV shows while waiting on the ground and stereophonic music for traditionalists. After convincing itself with a public opinion survey, American got Sony Corp. to make special equipment for its theater in the air. Whereas TWA's films are flashed on the screen at the front of the cabin from a projector hidden high above the aisle, Sony is equipping American's planes with a series of 9-in. TV sets...
...jets flew into service, they made the airline pilot a surplus commodity. Because the airlines could carry many more people much faster, they needed smaller fleets of planes and fewer men to fly them. The lines laid off hundreds of pilots, demoted countless others to lower ranks in the cockpit. Now the situation has made a full turn; for the first time in the annals of peacetime aviation, there is a serious pilot shortage...