Word: copilots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When a youngster starts out as a copilot, his associates suggest that he will doubtless want to join the union. If the newcomer agrees and is able, he is carefully nursed along by his pilot, becomes a full-fledged captain in due course. If he disagrees, he may live to be the world's oldest copilot...
...base pay by living aboard the yacht Dauntless in Anacostia's mud, but he spurned the chance to collect 50% more for occasional flying. Most other elderly generals, admirals, colonels and four-stripe captains legally stepped up their take-home pay by sitting in a copilot's seat for an hour a week...
...every airman knows, piloting a heavy bomber is a tiring job. To keep a plane steady in formation flying (especially in rough air and under fire), takes the combined efforts of the pilot and copilot...
...Blue. Over Germany, the crew of a crippled Liberator bomber bailed out. The pilot, Lieut. Virgil Trombly, landed in a tree, was soon greeted by a U.S. infantryman, his neighbor and high school classmate at Chazy, N.Y., Henry Dickinson. Copilot Lieut. Frank Gorman hit ground safely, immediately spied his neighbor and classmate at Shaker Heights, Ohio, Lieut. David Wick...
...dying, 20-year-old sergeant-gunner. Sickened airmen stood around the plane and listened, sobbing in helpless horror. They had tried rescue. As many as six had rushed in, had hauled and tugged, even tried to pull the sergeant loose from his legs, crushed and trapped behind the copilot's seat. They had failed, driven back by the consuming fire...