Word: cockpit
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...Airlines and asked officials if one of their big birds could wing the little fellow south. The airline, which advertises itself as "ready when you are," readied a small shipping box for the robin. The boxed bird caught a flight from Portland to Fort Myers, Fla., riding in the cockpit with the pilot. Once in Florida, the robin was greeted by members of the Fort Myers Nature Center, who made sure that it was healthy enough to be set free. "We've done this before," shrugs Delta Spokesman Bill Berry. "Once it was a pelican with a sore neck...
Will two in the cockpit...
...pilots in a commercial jet are company, but do three make a crowd? For years airlines and pilots have bickered over the number of people who should be in the cockpit. In the 1930s, planes like Boeing's Flying Boat had five: a pilot, copilot, navigator, radio operator and mechanic. With improved technology, the count generally dwindled to three. But airlines and planemakers have long argued that only a pilot and co-pilot are needed...
Angered by the Federal Aviation Administration's approval of a two-person crew for one new craft, the 155-passenger DC-9 Super 80, A.L.P.A. pilots last week picketed the White House to show their frustration with the agency and its handling of the cockpit-manning question. Left to its own devices, the FAA would almost certainly give the green light to two-member crews for the forthcoming Boeing 767 and 757 airliners, which will each seat about 200 passengers. But for now, longer-range jumbo jets like the 747 or the DC-10, which accommodate...
...some conspicuous, long-embattled urban positions, where relative calm has returned. This month a 100-strong company of Scots Guards pulled out of Glassmullin, a 240-sq.-yd. compound in the middle of west Belfast's once stormy Andersons-town suburb. Once the area was a cockpit of I.R.A. activity. Now, says a young Catholic resident, "life is much more peaceful...