Word: copiloting
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...work piled up, he found little time for flying. He let his civilian pilot's license lapse, and at last, in 1947, Mamie suggested that he leave the piloting to younger men. Somewhat ruefully, Ike agreed. Nowadays he sometimes sits in the copilot's seat of the Columbine, but refuses invitations to take over the controls...
...closing down fast. By 4:30 a.m., they were at their planes (the ground crews had been there an hour and a half earlier). While a^ big, square dummy bomb, about the size of a piano crate, was loaded into the open bomb bay, the plane commander and his copilot, their flashlights poking into the darkness, started checking down a list of 320 different points to be sure the plane was working. Before dawn the job was finished. The five 6-475 shot off around 7:30 a.m., and were swallowed in, thick soup 500 ft. off the ground...
...didn't bounce, just scraped, then the plane settled into a smooth landing. The air speed registered 100 knots, and the pilot could feel his wheels sliding on the slippery, wet pavement. "Drag chute out. Drag chute out," he called. Before he finished the order, the copilot had the brake-parachute billowing behind the plane to slow the speed...
...almost decapitated by the wing, one broke the glass of Clark's windshield with a great crash-he did not forget the jumpers hooked up to the static lines in the fuselage. He set off the emergency bell, warning them of imminent danger, both the pilot and the copilot, Lieut. Stanley Robert McCaig of Tieton, Wash., were still in their seats when the plane...
Paule Emile LaPointe, chief pilot for Quebecair Inc., a Canadian bush airline, was making a routine charter flight in a Douglas DC-3 from Goose Bay, Labrador to Mont Joli, Quebec one afternoon last June. With him was his copilot, Bill Awatter. Because the weather was clear, they dropped to about 1,000 feet and began looking for a Beechcraft that had been lost with two men aboard earlier this year. Awatter took the controls, and LaPointe concentrated on ground search...