Word: copiloted
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Though his record as a pilot was spotty, Infante was fond of flying and even owned a major interest in an air-freight line. One morning last week he set out from Merida, Yucatan as copilot on one of his transports, a converted B-24 carrying a load of fish. Three minutes after takeoff, the plane dived into a house, killing Infante, the pilot, the mechanic and two teen-agers in the house...
During the Air Corps' lean years, Reserve Officer Schriever built up a many-sided experience both on active and inactive duty. He flew lumbering B-3 Keystone bombers, ferried the mails, made a parachute jump (with proper military permission) just for the experience, worked as a copilot for Northwest Airlines on the Seattle-Billings run, served as aide in Panama to Brigadier General George H. Brett, and courted and won the general's 20-year-old blonde daughter Dora. On inactive duty one year, Ben ran a CCC camp of 200 truculent boys near Lordsburg...
...Oakland surgeon's son, Six began inauspiciously by quitting high school, thereafter became a merchant seaman, bill collector, turned to flying at 21 after Lindbergh's transatlantic flight had fired his imagination. Six started a flying school that failed, spent a year as a part-time copilot for China National Aviation, ended up a delivery hand for the San Francisco Chronicle. Soon tiring of that, Six began selling Beechcrafts on the Pacific Coast, set himself up as an aviation consultant...
...copters for suitability, and Draper, who has flown 'copters himself, is checking out Army and some civilian pilots for possible employment. Hottest Washington bet on the machine that will win out: Bell's plush, 2,350-lb. 47-J, which normally carries four, including pilot and copilot, has a range of 194 miles and a 108-m.p.h. top speed...
...Cancer Patient." Pilot Murphy was hired by the Dominican Airline six weeks before Galindez vanished, was made a copilot in spite of defective eyesight, which had barred him from U.S. military or commercial flying. Cocky and buoyant, he settled in Ciudad Trujillo, flew in and around the Dominican Republic for ten months. And one of the flights, he boasted in indiscreet moments last summer and fall, had been a hush-hush special job. His plane, he said, had taken Scholar Galindez, disguised as a "cancer patient," from the U.S. to the Dominican Republic...