Word: copiloting
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...million plane lifted off from Southern California's Edwards Air Force Base. Hearing a loud thump on the fuselage and seeing a red warning light blinking on the control panel, Alvin White, 47, North American Aviation's chief test pilot in the West, and his copilot, Air Force Colonel Joseph Cotton, 44, knew something was amiss with their landing gear. Pursuit jets monitoring the flight reported that one of the two tires on Cecil's forward gear had blown and the entire assembly was jammed against the partly open doors of the wheel cavity. A computer governing...
...year. With rare exceptions, the pilots are well worth it. Says Jerome Lederer, director of the Flight Safety Foundation and one of the nation's top air-safety experts: "Unless he is a professional driver, no man is one-tenth as capable of driving as the greenest copilot is capable of flying...
...crew was Flight Engineer Angel Betancourt Cueto, who was prepared to risk his life to escape Cuba. Seventy miles west of Havana. Betancourt made his move. Locking the door that separates the flight deck from the passengers, he suddenly slugged the guard who stood just behind the pilot and copilot and ordered Captain Fernando Alvarez Perez to set a course for Miami. "From this moment," as a government communiqué later described it, Havana's "flight control, in combination with the air force and air defense, drafted a plan by which the pilot was to pretend he was flying...
Died. Elliot M. See Jr., 38, civilian astronaut slated to command next May's Gemini 9 mission; with his capsule copilot, Air Force Major Charles A. Bassett II, 34, in the crash of their T-38 jet trainer at St. Louis' Lambert Field (see THE NATION...
...perfect target. The Viet Cong did not miss, putting bullets through the shoulder, leg and arm of the pilot of the Air America civilian transport ferrying rice under contract to the U.S. Government. As the crippled plane headed down to a crash landing in a small canal, the copilot frantically radioed for a rescue helicopter. Minutes later, the chopper arrived - and out of the downed plane jumped two men who were in the uniforms of the American pilot and his Vietnamese copilot. But instead of greetings, the chopper crew got grenades, for the uniformed men were V.C. in disguise...