Word: copiloting
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...tongue-lashed the general and colonel in charge, a terrifying treatment known in French slang as the "shampoo." He ordered 25 days' confinement for the pilot of his plane, because the pilot had neglected to put the new commander's insignia on the fuselage. To a bearded copilot, De Lattre snapped: "And you've got five minutes to shave yourself clean!" Later, to an aide, the martinet confided: "I have terrible obligations. I have to abuse those I like the best. These air force men are genuine heroes, but they behave too badly...
...Kaesong in its helicopters consisted of three colonels: Andrew Kinney of the U.S. Air Force, James Murray of the U.S. Marine Corps (both from General Ridgway's joint planning group in Tokyo) and Lee Soo Yong of the South Korean army. There were two pilots and a copilot, a mechanic, two interpreters, an Eighth Army photographer. No allied newsman went to Kaesong. A large throng of U.S. and other U.N. reporters were left behind at Munsan. If the negotiators ran into foul play (which was not seriously expected), allied ground forces around Munsan were ready to smash forward...
Lieut. J. H. Marovish of Los Angeles, the copilot, opened the window. The rain beat into the cockpit, drenching us all. Lieut. Marovish then leaned over the side, aiming his big camera. Again we passed over the ship, almost at mast height. Lieut. Marovish opened and closed his shutter, and came back to his seat wringing wet. Almost angrily he put the camera back into his case. The freighter carried the Panama flag sure enough, but everything about it looked American...
...plane straightened out in the darkness, as Captain Robert Baker and his copilot, Robert Reinicke, worked the controls, headed for the Denver Airport 100 miles away. But as it sank steadily toward the earth the passengers had but one thought. "Do we have a chance?" The two stewardesses, one staggering groggily with a bleeding head, could only answer: "Please fasten your seat belts. We will be in Denver in 20 minutes...
...mangled metal. Then, as ambulances and fire trucks roared down from their ready stations, one of the crew jumped out of the wreckage and circled dazedly until a sergeant ran from the trailer camp to lead him away. Miraculously seven others, including Captain Steffes and his copilot, managed to drag themselves free. "Let's get out of here," one of them mumbled. "There are bombs on there...