Word: cockpits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then came a crucial series of radio communications on two separate channels. The PSA cockpit crew could monitor both the Miramar frequency and that of the Lindbergh tower. The Cessna pilots were tuned only to Miramar. Miramar clearly warned the airliner about the Cessna. The sequence...
...crews were facing a glaring sun. Worse, each craft appeared to have entered a blind spot in the other's field of vision. The 727 crew, with the plane's nose up, had limited vision down toward the Cessna; in the Cessna, the high wing above the cockpit obstructed the view upward and to the rear...
...Sandown raceway in Melbourne was packed with 61,500 people, there to see the car that had been flown in from Stuttgart and the driver from Argentina. "It's like meeting an old friend," said Juan Fangio, 67, five-time world racing champion, as he clambered into the cockpit of the Mercedes-Benz "Silver Arrow" that he had driven to victory in world title races in 1954 and 1955. "But," he added, "please do not think I am going to do the same things I did many years ago. This car has been in a museum and soon...
Their illicit cargo-ten tons of marijuana, worth $22 million in street sales -apparently saved three of the four smugglers. On impact the burlap bags slammed forward into the cockpit, broke open and literally popped the surviving crew members out of the plane as it disintegrated and burned. Said a Union Parish sheriffs deputy: "Those guys are lucky to be alive, and thanks to the pot they are. But they're sure going to get to know our jail real well." They face up to ten years for possession of marijuana with intent to distribute. The fourth crew member...
Nearly everything that will qualify the planes to be called a new generation is hidden from view or discernible only by the expert eye. Some of the biggest improvements are in the cockpit. After takeoff, the flight can be fully automated, should the captain so choose. A computer back on the ground in the Airline Command Center will reckon the entire flight plan and feed the instructions for course headings, throttle settings, climbs, descents and the like into three smaller computers aboard the aircraft...