Word: copilots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...buzzing in the plane grew louder. Pilot Zerbe did not like the sound. With Copilot C. W. Wages at the controls, Zerbe and Corporal Gilbert Sies wrestled the depth charge to a side door, dumped it overboard from 10,000 feet. It exploded almost at once...
...staff in Africa, but incurred his frowns for sneaking out on combat missions without letting Doolittle know. (Doolittle had wanted to go himself.) Once, on a flight to Gibraltar, Vandenberg manned a waist gun, helped drive off a German attacker while Doolittle took the place of the wounded copilot...
...week. They can disable wing tips, dent the fuselage, foul the motor-but the chief danger is a windshield break. Last month a DC-3 almost crashed in Iowa when a duck came through the windshield in an explosion of glass and feathers and knocked out the pilot (the copilot saved the plane...
...Truman's special car ground to a stop at flat, dusty Uvalde, Tex. As vestibule doors banged in the silence of the sunny afternoon, a little old man with a bright pink face came hurrying up to the train. It was ex-Vice President "Cactus Jack" Garner, the copilot whom Franklin Roosevelt had dropped in 1940. John Garner, now 75, was wearing a worn work shirt, buttoned at the throat, a pair of dingy pants. There was an outrageous twisted rope of cigar between his teeth and a faded ten-gallon hat pushed back on his white hair...
...this huge and hugely complicated bomber, Boeing did away with a frequent source of pilot's gripe-an overladen instrument panel. The pilot and copilot have before them only the instruments necessary for taking off, flying and landing. The crew of eleven includes a flight engineer who has a big instrument panel of his own, and whose job is to keep track of engine performance. Since long-range flights mean long, fatiguing hours in the air, the ship carries chairs cushioned with sponge rubber and bunks in which unoccupied crew members may rest. The cabin is sound-insulated...