Word: copiloting
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...radar in World War II, later went to the airlines as a ground communications man. In 1948, while working with the Panagra line in South America, Lavrinc met and married brunette Bonnie Maupin, a Braniff Airways reservations girl. He diligently took flying lessons on his own, qualified as a copilot with Piedmont in 1951, advanced to captain six years later...
THOUGH new to the auto business, he knows that any company is only as good as its dealers. He set out on a flying trip (during which he sometimes sat in as copilot) to shake up Studebaker dealers. He saw 1,300 of the company's 2,200 dealers (down from 2,600 in 1959) One of Studebaker's troubles is the fall-off of dealers, mostly among "duals" who handled the Lark along with other makes until other automakers brought out their compacts. Some dealers began to drop the Lark, but Studebaker thought Chrysler Corp, went...
Born. To Captain Freeman Bruce Olmstead, 25, copilot of the RB-47 bomber shot down by Soviet fighters over the Barents Sea on July 1, who spent nearly seven months in a Soviet prison before returning home last January; and Gail Olmstead, 26: their second child, second daughter; in Topeka, Kans...
...days, just when the job began to seem respectable. "Agents even urged line pilots to buy insurance." But he brushed too close to disaster too often; he realized how the unexpected can upset an actuary's figures. He remembers a ham-handed clod named Dudley who flew copilot for a while on trans-Pacific runs. Dudley was a dud on instruments, but only after a couple of near crashes did anyone check his logbooks and find them an utter fiction. When he was fired, Dudley promptly got a job with another line and piled up in flames...
...years he was charged with nearly a dozen violations of civil air regulations-falsifying engine time (an old trick of shaky, non-sked airlines to stretch the time between mandatory engine inspections), flying more hours during a given period than safety regulations permit, falsifying a manifest to show a copilot who was not aboard, etc. After a formal hearing, his license was suspended last July by FAA, and Arctic-Pacific was fined $16,000. Chesher appealed and, pending a review, he was free to fly. When rescue workers recovered his body from the wreckage, they found it strapped...