Word: copilots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
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...