Word: copiloting
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Time after time, the flyers circle the field on instruments and slant into cautious approaches to the landing runway. An auto-pilot steers them along the ILS (Instrument Landing System) beam. But while they are making their automatic approach, Rube and his copilot keep up a constant chatter on the radio. They sing out when they first spot the ground, report familiar landmarks, announce the first gleam of runway lights. And every word is recorded on the ground...
...stuck in its casing. King pried open the trap door in the floor of his cockpit, wriggled into the narrow passage in the wing of his aircraft and tried to lower the wheel by hand. For 90 minutes he wrestled in the darkness of the wing while his copilot circled Seoul, burning up surplus fuel that might roast them alive if they crashed. But the wheel could not be lowered...
...Finger on the Trigger. The rest of the story is Copilot Felix Gaston's: "I thought to myself: I am a dead duck, a goner. Dear Lord, can't I even see my unborn child? I tried everything. I said I had eaten no breakfast and was dizzy. I pretended illness and asked for water and food. But he wouldn't open that door. I offered to intercede with [Defense Secretary Ramon] Magsaysay for him. I said the left engine was stalling and that we had to ditch the plane. I put on a life jacket, gave...
Last October, after three years of yearning and scheming, Pilot Ivan Kavic of the Yugoslav airlines loaded his wife and young son aboard his plane. Determined to make a new life in the free air of Switzerland, he forced his copilot at pistol point to fly to Zurich (TiME, Oct. 29). Tito's Communist government demanded Kavic's extradition; the Swiss would not yield him up. Free to do as he liked, Kavic tried for a job as a pilot on several European airlines. He was turned down. He asked for a copilot's berth. No luck...
...Force. A World War II veteran whose wife was expecting a child, he applied almost immediately for a ground job. He said that he had become afraid of flying. The Air Force turned down his request. Last December, when he was ordered to fly to England as copilot of a C124 cargo plane, Goodwin refused to obey. Last week at Biggs Air Force Base, Texas, a court-martial sentenced him to two years' hard labor and ordered him cashiered...