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...Third-Man Theme. The TWA agreement assured the engineers that they would get top priority for assignment as the controversial third man in the cockpit while the fourth man is being eliminated; it would oblige TWA to give pilot training to any flight engineers who seek it, including those temporarily laid off. The agreement promised the engineers' union, fearful that it will be swallowed up by the Air Line Pilots Association, that it "will not suffer an increased risk of loss of its representational rights" by adopting the agreement. But it also aimed at an ultimate merger by setting...
...Architect Frederick ("Ted") Hood, a world-renowned Marblehead sailmaker. Built in secrecy at a cost of $300,000, she is what her builders call a "beamy cutter," shaped like a wine glass and 1½ ft. wider than normal for 12-meter yachts. Like Gretel she has a divided cockpit, but the helmsman stands far aft, instead of forward, to be out of the work area. For extra speed she has a long, flat run, a stubby, reverse transom, and at 57,500 lbs., she is fully...
...hover uncertainly for a brief moment, then hurtled downward. Minutes later, its tail skids carved a high rooster tail of dust in the wind-slicked silt of Rogers Dry Lake in California. The plane stopped. "Well." said Test Pilot Joe Walker as he threw off the switches in the cockpit, "there's that one for today." In his X-15, Walker had just streaked to a new altitude record for manned planes: 246.700 ft.-46.7 miles above the earth...
Moss had hoped for rain ("I do better in the wet"), but a bright sun warmed the crowd of 72,000. Settling into the cockpit of his low-slung, pale green Lotus, Moss joshed Rival Graham Hill, who was piloting a faster BRM: "Don't try too hard, Graham, or you'll blow it up." He screwed in his earplugs, snapped his helmet strap and adjusted his goggles. "Hey," he yelled to Mechanic Tony Robinson. "Where's my chewing gum?" Robinson handed him a stick. Moss waved. "Here goes," he said. Then, exhaust crackling fiercely, he roared...
...report. At other times, the CAB pinpoints the cause rapidly. It took only three months to discover why a Constella tion of nonsked Imperial Airlines crashed last November near Richmond; the cap tain survived, and his testimony helped the CAB to uncover an incredible story of incompetence in the cockpit...