Word: copiloting
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Back home in England, Frenesi, with Copilot Jabez Churchill of Santa Rosa, Calif. helping Cely in the wrestle with the controls, staggered into an airdrome, landed right side up, stopped. Mechanics appraised her damage with quick professional eyes: most of the tail shot away, one wingtip gone, fuselage and wings holed more times than they could count until they got her in the dispersal station...
...loan his personal Catalina flying boat to help PT boats flush a covey of Jap ships. Geiger first refused ("Got it filled full of holes the last time you fellows flew around out there"), finally gave in. But there was a string attached. He insisted on going along as copilot...
...impulse to make a playful pass at a lumbering transport plane, to fly formation, waggle his wings and cut in front is not risking his life alone. In this day of crowded schedules he is more than likely gambling with the lives of the liner's parachuteless pilot, copilot, stewardess and 21 high-priority passengers...
...flight by an Army Lockheed B34. CAB investigated the crash, reported that the "probable" cause was the "reckless and irresponsible conduct of Lieut. William N. Wilson in deliberately maneuvering a bomber in dangerous proximity to the airliner in an unjustifiable attempt to attract the attention of the first officer [copilot] of the latter plane." The Army promptly court-martialed Lieut. Wilson, just as promptly acquitted...
...over occupied Europe, Sergeant Gunner Wissenback's Flying, Fortress went into a flat spin. Pilot and copilot had been killed. Wissenback just managed to bail out at 1,000 feet, with only the chest-straps of his parachute hooked...