Word: copilots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shuttle was also designed to be comfortable. Its spacious three-level cabin will provide ample room for seven, including pilot and copilot, to move around in shirtsleeve comfort in an earthlike pressure and atmosphere. It also contains enough amenities to shatter any sex barriers to space travel. "We've been asked if we would be able to fly women," said one NASA official. "The last guy who said no got fired...
...that were abandoned some time ago by larger carriers. But tiny Wheeler can claim at least two distinctions. Its president, principal stockholder and part-time pilot, Warren Wheeler, 31, has a unique way of keeping up with the competition: besides being the boss of Wheeler, he is a senior copilot with Piedmont Airlines, a regional carrier that flies some of the same routes as Wheeler. At the same time, the lanky young executive is a black and, so far as he knows, the head of the first and only black-owned scheduled air carrier...
...futuristic mode has popped up in Allen's work before, as in the pilot-to-copilot routine in Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Sex..., where the human body is a compartmentalized bureaucratic machine gone away, and Allen plays a sperm cell. Allen likes the tension between the human and the mechanical--there's a natural humor of incompetence in it. But in Sleeper the technocratic setting takes over, framing--maybe dominating--his talent, underlining the classic Allenesque plight of the weak human with simple (if overwhelming) personal problems against a strong, impersonal society...
...teen-age girl (Pamela Sue Martin) and her obnoxious little brother (Eric Shea); an aging Jewish couple (Shelley Winters and Jack Albertson) en route to the holy land; a timid haberdasher (Red Buttons); a willowy rock singer (Carol Lynley); and a plucky waiter (Roddy McDowall). With God as his copilot, and with a good deal of muscle, Hackman leads them ever upward, through sets that look as tortuous as a miniature golf course...
...milestones in the history of scientific exploration, they have been precluded from participating directly in it. Now, confident of the Apollo landing techniques perfected by the military pilots on previous missions, NASA has chosen a handsome 37-year-old geologist named Harrison ("Jack") Schmitt to be copilot of Apollo 17. If all goes well, Schmitt next week will take a historic step: he will become the first scientist from earth to walk on another world...