Word: copilots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...copilot, Ralph Stevens, also of Seattle, was in control shortly after we got into the air. Suddenly he switched on the landing lights. He said he thought he saw an aircraft approaching us headon. I noticed the objects then for the first time. We saw four or five 'somethings.' One was larger than the rest and, for the most part, kept off the right of the other three or four Similar, but smaller, objects...
Howard Hughes likes to fly his own eccentric way, but the time came last week to call in a copilot for T.W.A. To make it possible to get a $40 million RFC loan that T.W.A. had to have to keep flying, Hughes agreed to put his T.W.A. stock (46%) into a voting trust, thus share T.W.A. control with the U.S. Government...
...south shore of Long Island, fearful that he would have to ditch in the Atlantic, Boothe saw a white strip beneath him. He had only five minutes' gas supply left when he leveled off over the deserted sands of Jones Beach, made a belly landing. He and the copilot were cut and shaken up; no one else was hurt, but the ship was wrecked. G.C.A. (see above) might have saved that...
Eleven came out alive. Mrs. Waterbury and her baby were hurt, but both had a chance for life. But twelve others, including Pierre Dreyfus and Herman Koegel, were dead. Captain Tansey was in critical condition, his copilot badly injured...
Pilot Hamm headed for the clearest space he could find, brushed through a grove of trees on the way. The DC-3 burst into pieces at the crash. Somehow, the stewardess and 18 passengers escaped with their lives. But Pilot Hamm and his copilot, Harmon E. Ring, had made their last flight...