Word: copilot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pilot Claude, Copilot Lewis, their flight engineer and 15 of the Aztec's 41 passengers escaped from the white-hot pyre. When the wreckage had cooled, an American Airlines ground crewman stood sobbing as he kept count, in a little black notebook, of the bodies carried from the blackened metal. Total: 28. Three days later the heads of eleven major U.S. airlines were feted in Chicago at a luncheon (scheduled long before the crash) to honor commercial aviation's record for safety. Their statistics proved that IQ49, even including the Dallas crash, could still...
...when the fire was finally extinguished and the charred wreck was pulled away, 14-the pilot, copilot, the airline operator and eleven students-were dead...
...Copilot. After 13 years as boss of Curtiss-Wright Corp., Guy W. Vaughan, 64, shifted some of the load to younger shoulders. As oldtime airman Vaughan moved to board chairman, William C. Jordan, 50, onetime vice president and general manager of Steel Products Engineering Co., became president. Vaughan hired Jordan away after the war, and groomed him for his new job by making him general manager of the Curtiss-Wright airplane division and later vice president and general manager of Wright Aeronautical, the engine-building division...
...mops to swash off the wings with antifreeze. "With this load," said MacWilliams, "we need every bit of lift we can get." He climbed into the plane, checked the guy ropes holding the huge burlap rice sacks, moved on to the cockpit and, with the help of his Chinese copilot, got his engines sputtering, then roaring. The plane took...
This is the kind of role that Jimmy Stewart could play blindfolded, hog-tied and in the bottom of a well. He gives it all the best Stewartisms, and modestly allows adequate working room to Copilot Eddie Albert and half a dozen other skilled troupers (notably Roland Young and Willard Parker). As a comedienne, Joan Fontaine tries out a new set of mannerisms, most of which seem to have been borrowed from Jean Arthur...