Word: copiloting
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...Pilots Association, 150 wives were taking a seven-day course in handling and landing a light plane. Some, such as Judy Parker, even brought their children-present and future. Nobody mentioned the medical contingencies that lay behind the course, but it was obvious: the women flew from the copilot's seat, rather than the pilot's seat on the left, where regular students are taught. But the instruction, designed to undercut feminine fears and build confidence that they could handle a plane, was simple and optimistic enough to make an oldtime pilot blush...
Minutes later, the Senator was at the controls of a trim twin-jet Air Force T-39 cabin job, climbed to 45,000 ft., and headed for Washington. Reluctantly, he gave the stick to his copilot and took a seat in the cabin to chat with a newsman about "this President thing...
...guerrilla, he suddenly wheeled and headed straight for them, a hand grenade in each hand. A burst of gunfire from the choppers cut him down; both grenades exploded beneath his body. From the door of a grass hut, a guerrilla blazed away at a hovering Huey, missed its copilot by only a few inches. The Huey's wingman planted a rocket smack in the doorway of the hut and blew it to pieces...
...Lockheed TF-104G Super Starfighter through the supersonic corridor near Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., at twice the speed of sound. Toni, a Pasadena high school senior and very likely the world's fastest teenager, held a pace of 1,325-1,350 m.p.h., with Dad as her copilot-and Dad is Supersonic Flight Pioneer A. W. ("Tony") LeVier, 50, now Lockheed-California's director of flying operations. With another father-daughter stunt in the offing, a cross-country flight to Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Toni nevertheless talks like a girl whose aims are thoroughly down...
FICTION : The condenser's failure actuates a red light on a fail-safe "black box" in the errant squadron commander's cockpit. The code numbers that show up in the box jibe with the secret code packets held by pilot and copilot, authenticating the "go" signal...