Word: cockpits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Joseph R. Ciollo '99, who paid $30 to select and show a film for Pforzheimer's Movie Night at the House's Dutch Auction, did not get a chance to watch the end of his movie after a resident tutor decided to shut down the showing of "Cockpit," an X-rated film detailing the sexual escapades of World War II pilots...
FLIGHT SIMULATORS Best-selling MICROSOFT FLIGHT SIMULATOR now comes in two flavors--with combat and without. The aim, not surprisingly, is to stay aloft while handling all the complexities of a modern cockpit. Unless you count deliberately crashing into a cornfield or re-enacting air combat from World War II, there's not too much mayhem...
...readers expect and understand. The brief opening scene takes a Spitfire pilot over Nazi-occupied France on a lone mission and brings him back to his British home field, his fragile plane's tail controls damaged by antiaircraft fire. He makes a ragged landing and climbs out of the cockpit, shaking. A mechanic asks, "How was it, Greg?" He answers, "It was cold...
Most men have it: the fantasy of one day sitting behind the wheel of an expensive sports car or climbing into the cockpit of a jet. Many outgrow the urge, but Kevin Stamper went out and bought a brand-new Boeing 737 and then, for the fun of it, launched Pro Air, his very own little airline...
...experts were surprised that the pilots turned out to sea to dump fuel--a standard emergency tack but one that may have given the plane's suspected wiring problem enough time to force the craft down. Last week the Wall Street Journal reported that a preliminary summary of a cockpit recording showed that co-pilot Stefan Lowe suggested landing immediately but was overruled repeatedly by Captain Urs Zimmermann, who focused on the procedural checklist...