Word: copilot
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...mission in Pretoria for "aerial espionage." A grim-faced Botha told South Africans that a twin-engine Beechcraft turboprop used by U.S. Am bassador William B. Edmondson had been "converted for use as a spy plane by the installation of an aerial-survey camera under the seat of the copilot." The Prime Minister charged that "the embassy air craft was engaged in a systematic pro gram of photography of vast areas of South Africa, including some of our most sensitive installations." Botha's disclosures seemed designed both to embarrass the Carter Administration at a time when...
Before the tower had received those messages, KLM's Veldhuizen told his copilot to ask for takeoff clearance. Suddenly and inexplicably, Veldhuizen opened the throttles. Flustered, the copilot radioed the tower: "We are now at takeoff." Since clearance had not been given, the tower assumed that KLM was simply at takeoff position and replied, "Standby ... I will call you." That order coincided with a Pan Am message that the Clipper was still taxiing on the runway, but the information was garbled by an unexplained whistling sound...
...Montgomery Field, eleven miles northeast of Lindbergh Field. Kazy, who had moved to California last year from Youngstown, Ohio, had just obtained a new job flying charter aircraft throughout the West and had asked his fiancéee, Jennifer Lefler, 25, also a flyer, to travel with him as copilot. One of his last scheduled assignments as an instructor was last week's flight. With him was Marine Sergeant David Lee Boswell, 35, who held a commercial pilot's license but wanted to upgrade his certificate by meeting the requirements for instrument flight training. He had already spent...
...this point, according to U.S. intelligence experts who monitored the Soviet radio traffic, the Sukhoi-15 flyers evidently lost track of the 707 altogether. Indeed, the Soviet pilots radioed their base that the plane had been shot down. Eventually, reported Copilot Cha Soon Do, one of the interceptors reappeared ahead of the 707 in what seemed to be a "follow me" position. The Koreans tried to comply, but could not: the lead-footed Russian roared off too fast...
...aviatrix who made a well-publicized but unsuccessful bid in 1927 to become the first woman to fly across the Atlantic; of emphysema; in San Francisco. After Elder took off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island, her plane, The American Girl, splashed down near the Azores, where the pilot and copilot were rescued by a tanker. The failed flight, however, turned into a launch for a lucrative film career...