Word: crewmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rear of the cockpit opens, exposing a passage sloping down and back toward the belly of the plane. At the end is a second door with two leaves. The rear leaf flies off into space. The forward leaf is pushed out hydraulically to form a windscreen. When escaping crewmen slide down the chute, the screen softens the blow from the airstream, and the deadly tail surfaces pass above them harmlessly...
Last week at Caldwell, N.J., Curtiss-Wright and Pan American Airways demonstrated an elaborate training device, the biggest and best of its kind, which can simulate both "disaster conditions" and routine flights. It has no wings; it cannot fly or even move. But crewmen shut in its cockpit (a copy of the cockpit in Pan Am's new Boeing Clippers) experience nearly all the horrors that can overtake a pilot. They are at the mercy of an unseen instructor who can "simulate" violent weather and faithless machinery...
...pilot stops the engine, and the controls react violently. The crew must know instantly how to bring in a crippled plane, be able to find the runway with a blind-landing system. Even the squeak of tires is heard as the wheels hit the concrete on a landing. The crewmen come back from their simulated flight in a sweat that is not simulated...
...Bermuda Sky Queen crash was Pilot Charles Martin. When his big Boeing flying boat ran low on gas over the stormy North Atlantic last month (TIME, Oct. 27), he had brought her neatly down off the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Bibb and saved the lives of 69 passengers and crewmen. But as Civil Aeronautics Board hearings began last week, Pilot Martin (and crew) looked a lot less heroic...
...Scientists have long suspected the magnetic pole of shiftiness. Ever since Sir James Ross first located (or thought he located) it in 1832, the pole has been rediscovered periodically, usually in a new spot. As recently as last year crewmen of the Army's Hawaii-to-Egypt polar plane, Pacusan Dreamboat, found it at some distance from its old habitat on Boothia Peninsula...