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...take a look at his small cruising cutter. There it was tucked away in the corner of the big shed. It's bottom was rough and brown but a little work would fix it up, he thought--as he climbed over the side and stepped quietly into the cockpit. He put his hand on the tiller and moved it slowly back and forth. The compass read 247 degrees--west-south-west--the very direction he had followed coming home down the coast last summer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

Sirs: . . . Fredericksburg residents are against the Wagner-Van Nuys Bill as we have not Civil forgotten War'' that and we the were the Carpetbag "Cockpit of Reconstruction that followed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 14, 1938 | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

...large aircraft there is more to do in the cockpit than can reasonably be expected of anybody. . . . There is a multiplicity of wheels, buttons, knobs, gadgets, instruments to be checked, landing gear. ""wing flaps, radio communication, navigation problems, fuel consumption, ground speed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Blots & Prospects | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

...Under better physiological conditions, with a simplified cockpit and an enlarged crew, there would be greater safety, fewer pilot errors, fewer crashes, less loss of life and equipment and great revenue from a more confident public. There would be a less rapid turnover of pilots and a longer useful service, and they would live a longer and more healthful life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Blots & Prospects | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

...aghast to find no Private Strozier in his ship. Then the phone rang. Over the wire came Private Strozier's voice, "You wiggled your hand. I thought the plane was on the blink. I bailed out." Said the major, "I was cold. I wanted you to close the cockpit, not empty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 1, 1937 | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

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