Word: copiloting
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When Hughes took up flying seriously, he first became a crack pilot, then worked as an American Airlines copilot, under an assumed name, to perfect his technique...
...Colonel Haynes, who handles a bomber as another man would handle a pursuit, was in the pilot's seat. We were in the air with bombers and fighters strung out behind us. Haynes's second in command and copilot was Major William E. Basye. Black-haired, poker-playing Butch Morgan, longtime associate of Haynes's, was in the bombardier's compartment. This was a tough mission and Haynes was putting his best...
...faded from his ruddy face and he seldom gets into a pursuit ship. His mount is the big bomber, which he insisted on developing in the U.S. when the minds of British airmen were on fighters. And he always takes along his lanky aide, Colonel Eugene Beebe, as copilot, for Hap Arnold's theory is that old fellows tire out and may need help at the end of a long flight. So far Colonel Beebe has found nothing to substantiate the boss's theory...
Eyewitnesses Gearhart and Pearson raced through the rainy dark, found one man moaning, alive. They covered him with blankets, stacked luggage for a windbreak. But in a moment or two he died. Ambulance crews from the city and soldiers from nearby Fort Douglas counted up the toll: pilot, copilot, stewardess and 14 passengers, including two Sperry Gyroscope Co. officials and a year-old baby...
Piloting a blimp requires great skill. Both pilot and copilot work hard. They have an instrument panel much like that of an airplane to watch, also numerous pressure gauges and valves which control altitude. Steering, especially on windy days, is work for two men: the chief pilot works the elevators, the copilot the rudder. The number of blimps now in service is secret. It is not yet large, but within a few months it is expected to be. If it is, the U.S. will have what amounts to a two-ocean Navy sooner than it expected...