Word: copiloting
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Died. Clarence Nicholas Sayen, 46, president from 1951 to 1962 of the Air Line Pilots Association, 16,000-member union representing more than 90% of the country's scheduled airline pilots, a onetime Braniff copilot who won many badly needed air-safety reforms, but called senseless strikes against the airlines in a bitter struggle for control of the smaller Flight Engineers union and resigned under fire; of injuries suffered when the United Airlines Boeing 727 he had taken from New York crashed into Lake Michigan minutes before landing at Chicago, killing all 30 passengers and crew...
...have been as much as 15° off. Only the day before, a Paradise pilot who was flying the plane had complained that his altimeter had been "sticky" during descents, remaining stationary for a while, then suddenly registering a 150-ft. to 200-ft. drop. As for the copilot's altimeter, it registered 100 ft. below sea level when the plane was on the ground at sea level...
...best. Except for a few relatively minor flaws, the space capsule functioned magnificently; even in the searing heat of reentry, the cabin stayed around 70°F., with humidity of about 60%-just like a crisp June day in Denver. As for the men, Command Pilot McDivitt and Copilot White survived more than four days of weightlessness in such good shape that space doctors were amazed. Each logged 97 hr. 56 min. in space-just 21 hr. 10 min. less than the record set by Soviet Cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky in June 1963. Together, they were aloft three times longer than...
...Yeoh!" At almost the same time, aboard the Pan American jet, the pilot and copilot were taking landing instructions from the tower at Kennedy. Suddenly one of them shouted into the radio, "Yeoh!" Twenty-three seconds later, Pan American 212 radioed to the airport controllers: "We had a close miss here . . . Did you have another target in this area at this same spot where we were just a minute ago?" The tower replied, "Affirmative, however not on my scope at the present time." From the Pan American ship came the first word of disaster: "It looked like...
When Flight 773 took off from Reno at 5:54 the next morning, Gonzales was aboard. During the flight, Pilot Ernest A. Clark, 52, and Copilot Ray E. Andress, 31, radioed reports of routine conditions. They landed on schedule at Stockton, Calif., took off again at 6:38 a.m. after two passengers had deplaned and ten had come aboard to finish the trip to San Francisco. For ten minutes out of Stockton, all went normally. Then, reports the CAB, "at 06:48:15, a high-pitched message was heard and recorded on the Oakland Approach Control tape." It was garbled...