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Forward in the cockpit, Captain Albert H. DeWitt, 59, wheeled the big Electra on a lazy clockwise arc into LaGuardia's landing pattern, took position two minutes behind a Northeast Airlines DC-3, got his instructions from the LaGuardia tower. The weather was foul - a 400-ft. ceiling, two-mile visibility, wind eight miles an hour, freezing rain-but hardly challenging to a 28,000-hour veteran (40 hours in Electras) like DeWitt. Neither was the approach from the northeast over the East River through LaGuardia's "back door." The back door's runway 22 was equipped...
...Third Man" Theme. The big issue had been whether the ''third man'' in a jet cockpit should be a pilot or a flight engineer (TIME, May 5). At first, American President C. R. Smith figured that adding a third pilot would be plain featherbedding. Smith changed his mind after American's operations men, who have been studying the line's first Boeing 707 jet in test runs since October, reported that a third pilot is needed, along with an engineer. The plane flies so fast that two pilots should always be at the controls...
...strike against American, which flies 24,000 passengers daily east and west, had been building since ALPA's contract expired 16 months ago. A principal point at issue in the onrushing jet age: whether the third man in the jet cockpit should be a pilot or flight engineer. ALPA and American had reached an informal agreement by adding a fourth man as third pilot. But then they disagreed on wages and flying hours for crews of both jet and piston-driven planes. American offered substantial wage increases, e.g., from $19,200 annually to $28,000 for eight-year pilots...
Since she burst into their comic-strip world in 1956, the Texas teen-age tomboy named Poteet has brought both joy and dismay to tall-in-the-cockpit Colonel Steve Canyon and Cartoonist Milton Caniff. Last week Caniff acknowledged that he took Poteet out of the strip (607 papers) in early October because of the problems she posed. For one thing, she was upstaging Steve with her giddy flair. For another, he feared she would become sullied by association with another youthful heroine of a different reputation : Lolita...
...pilots of American Airlines to strike-if they want. A New York federal judge lifted a restraining order that had prevented a walkout by the pilots, who want higher pay and shorter hours to fly American's new jets, insist that the third man in the cockpit be a pilot. The pilots announced that they would not walk out immediately, promised to give the public sufficient warning. One hopeful sign that the strike might be averted: the resumption of negotiations between American and the Air Line Pilots Association in Chicago for the first time since Oct. 1. Another hopeful...