Word: copiloting
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Married. Army Air Forces Captain Dean Davenport, 25, Tokyo raid copilot, squadron commander of South Carolina's Columbia Army air base; and Mary McMaster Lowry, 22, OPA secretary; in Columbia...
...Flak caught another B-26 over the same target, killed the pilot. His body fell forward and threw the ship out of control. The copilot, Flight Officer Stanley B. Farley Jr., lifted the pilot off the controls and pulled the plane out of a spin. The gunners were all wounded, but they crawled forward and dragged the pilot's body out of Farley's way. He had never landed a B26, a plane so "hot" on landing that many experienced pilots do not like to fly it. But Farley brought his B-26 in gently, drifting...
...couple of minutes the ball-turret gunner had shot down an Me-110 trying to get us, and the radio operator had been wounded. We were getting pretty banged up. Then a fighter made a quick pass at us and sent a shell crashing into the cockpit. Our copilot, Steve Bellovay, was hit clean through the breast pocket. He slumped over the instrument panel, but the pilot never wavered a second. He held her steady, straight on toward the target...
Candid Craft. The troop-carrying glider is a candid sort of aircraft, no secrets, nothing concealed. Canvas fabric covers the fuselage; in flight it vibrates like a drumhead. The whole craft is springy and alive as a new buggy. Pilot and copilot sit up in the blunt, transparent nose, a single row of instrument dials in front of them. The noise of rushing air is astonishing...
...grabbed two steel struts overhead, braced myself and stared over the copilot's shoulder. Another glider had landed ahead of us: its troops were scrambling out into the battle. We ripped toward the end of the short field, charged past the glider, ripped off one of its wing tips. We slashed through a fence...