Word: copiloting
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...them cheerfully, "you guys are gonna drive me nuts! Har! Har! Har!" Oh, that Peck really breaks the boys up, but he puts them all together again with sodium pentothal and sympathy. One after another they go from snakepit to cockpit, secure in the knowledge that Freud is their copilot...
Since 1955, when the Joint Committee on Aviation Pathology of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington began recording cases of pilot death at the controls, the lethal list has grown to 20. Sometimes it is possible for an alert copilot to take over the controls and save the plane. But if the pilot's attack occurs during the final approach-in those tense seconds just before a plane touches down-it may be too late for anyone to help. And if there is only one pilot, as in many military and private planes, one heart attack...
Could he come over? He could indeed. The President sent his own plane to intercept Reston and his wife in Dallas, and as a Johnsonian joke drafted Bill Mauldin as copilot. The President thoroughly relished the gag's payoff: Reston did not recognize Mauldin (TIME Cover, July 21, 1961*), and let the cartoonist carry his luggage...
Flown to Tinian on Aug. 5, 1945, to ride over Hiroshima with the crew of the Enola Gay, Laurence was bumped off the plane by Curtis LeMay, had to console himself by talking the copilot into keeping a log. Laurence's 3,000-word story had clearance, but a military censor on Tinian made him boil it down to 500 words-and for some reason the dispatch was then shortstopped on Guam. It never got out at all. The first newspaper accounts of the Hiroshima bomb consisted of stories prewritten by Laurence and others weeks before...
...planes and space capsules. Anxious to keep Garrett both thriving and informal, Bellande has led the fight against a takeover by ailing Curtiss-Wright, which has sought to buy 47% of Garrett's stock. A onetime barnstormer, mail pilot and test pilot who was Charles Lindbergh's copilot on one of the first transcontinental passenger runs in 1929, Bellande now restricts his piloting to the company Convair. Behind his desk, on which sits a dime-store statuette of a hula dancer, Garrett's $99,000-a-year boss is a smooth delegator of authority, a stickler...