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Tower: "Northwest one-four-eight-two, if you're on 21 Center, exit that runway immediately, sir." Then came a shouted command from the tower: "Get off there!" Lovelace, busy at the controls, said later he did not hear his copilot tell the tower they were on the runway, or he would have "gone for the weeds," meaning roll off the runway and onto the grass...
...your pipper on him! Shoot him! Shoot him!" yelled my copilot, Denny ("Dooley") Jackson, as the enemy tried to break left. But I had him in the 100-mil circle of my gunsight. I squeezed the trigger, and felt the stutter of the machine guns and watched the plane belch smoke. The world was in color again; the G-forces had receded; my stomach was back where it belonged. Victory was mine. The radio link to the other plane came alive. "Yee-haw!" taunted the loser of this aerial gunfight, a trucking-company official from Tucson...
While his friends in Oceano, Calif., have been zooming about on bikes and surfboards, Marshall has been taking flying lessons since he was seven. His copilot last week was retired U.S. Navy Flyer Randy ("Duke") Cunningham, 46. A third passenger slipped on board: Marshall's brown teddy bear, named, appropriately enough, Charles Lindbeargh...
...Continental Airlines after one of the carrier's pilots admitted that on several flights he had made deliberate mistakes prior to takeoff -- like setting the plane's wing flaps in the wrong position and misstating the aircraft's weight -- in order to test the skills and alertness of his copilot...
...have let the President be led into violating a central tenet of that policy, a refusal to make deals with hostage takers? Even his claimed ignorance is a pallid excuse, since it suggests, as Haig put it in an earlier debate, that Bush was not the plane's copilot, but merely "back in economy class...