Word: copilots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...life & times of Radio Songbird Jane Froman, 30, continued to read like a story with happy chapter endings. "I'll never forget him," she had said in 1943 of Copilot John Curtis Burn when he kept her from drowning in the Tagus River after the Lisbon Clipper crash that broke his back and left her crippled (TIME, March 8, 1943). Last week, 25 leg operations and a divorce (from ex-Radio Singer Don Ross) later, she announced that she would marry rugged, 33-year-old Flyer Burn. She would have to be on crutches for the ceremony, but Jane...
...with a pilot who has just had a crash. For airlines and pilots, that conclusion poses a dilemma. How can the pilot get back his confidence unless he flies? Horn suggests that a crashed pilot should go through a comeback course of supervised flying with a copilot. If his jitters are severe, it may help to talk out his trouble under a "hypnotic" drug...
...Then, still undetected, Sisto released the gust lock. The plane immediately went into an outside loop. Both Sisto and Beck, neither of whom had fastened his safety belt, were thrown from their seats. Two things saved the plane. Sisto struck buttons which feathered the prp-pellors of three engines. Copilot Melvin Logan, who was securely belted in, was able to roll the ship right side up, a bare 300 to 400 feet from the ground...
...battled the black, doughnut-shaped monster for more than two hours. . . . Winds of 140-mile-an-hour velocity slammed us once to within 250 feet of the churning seas. The pilot and copilot worked feverishly to pull out, but it was like trying to swim up a waterfall...
...Forward, in the cockpit, the pilot and copilot were wrestling with the controls to keep the big ship's nose up. They were flying blind. The needle registering altitude bounced crazily between 200 and 800 feet. The plane was bobbing too fast for the instrument to keep up. . . . I tried to swallow but couldn't. . . . My legs were numb from the hips down, partly from the pressure of the safety belt cutting into my belly, but mostly from fear...