Word: copiloting
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...Blue. Over Germany, the crew of a crippled Liberator bomber bailed out. The pilot, Lieut. Virgil Trombly, landed in a tree, was soon greeted by a U.S. infantryman, his neighbor and high school classmate at Chazy, N.Y., Henry Dickinson. Copilot Lieut. Frank Gorman hit ground safely, immediately spied his neighbor and classmate at Shaker Heights, Ohio, Lieut. David Wick...
...dying, 20-year-old sergeant-gunner. Sickened airmen stood around the plane and listened, sobbing in helpless horror. They had tried rescue. As many as six had rushed in, had hauled and tugged, even tried to pull the sergeant loose from his legs, crushed and trapped behind the copilot's seat. They had failed, driven back by the consuming fire...
...buzzing in the plane grew louder. Pilot Zerbe did not like the sound. With Copilot C. W. Wages at the controls, Zerbe and Corporal Gilbert Sies wrestled the depth charge to a side door, dumped it overboard from 10,000 feet. It exploded almost at once...
...staff in Africa, but incurred his frowns for sneaking out on combat missions without letting Doolittle know. (Doolittle had wanted to go himself.) Once, on a flight to Gibraltar, Vandenberg manned a waist gun, helped drive off a German attacker while Doolittle took the place of the wounded copilot...
...week. They can disable wing tips, dent the fuselage, foul the motor-but the chief danger is a windshield break. Last month a DC-3 almost crashed in Iowa when a duck came through the windshield in an explosion of glass and feathers and knocked out the pilot (the copilot saved the plane...