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...would not have been able to maneuver out of the storm, but Reid certainly would have. Warren Morningstar of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, said, with dual controls "the pilot in command can easily control the aircraft from either seat. There is never a situation in which the nonpilot can put the plane into such immediate peril that there is no recovery." Only after an analysis and "probable cause" finding in about six months will the FAA review its regulations covering young pilots...
...Naval Reserve commander who just completed one of his two regulation training weeks a year, he is also Secretary of the Navy. But as the Reserve bomber-navigator on an A- 6 attack plane at Oceana Naval Air Station in Virginia Beach, Va., Lehman took the right-hand, nonpilot seat on training missions. He also spent time at "deck-plate level," getting a feel for the concerns of ordinary seamen and petty officers. The Secretary acts on the gripes too. After a training week earlier this year, Lehman ordered an investigation into whether some A-6 squadrons should be modified...
Rebel group's candidate, former Civil Aeronautics Board Chairman James M. Landis, was rejected by Sayen-controlled union directors, who refused to alter bylaws so that nonpilot could run for the $38,000-a-year...
...Army Air Forces had done well by the President's second son, 34-year-old Elliott Roosevelt. Totally inexperienced as a soldier or military airman when he was commissioned, he had learned fast, risen fast, by 1943 was a full colonel. What was more remarkable was that nonpilot Roosevelt had become the commander of a battle outfit (a photo reconnaissance group) in an organization which normally holds such posts open to pilots only...
...piece of evidence, they point to the make-up of his general staff. The nearest thing to an aviator among the higher-ups of King's general staff is Vice Admiral Frederick J. Home, vice chief of naval operations, who is rated as a naval observer (strictly a nonpilot...