Word: copilot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Captain Charles R. Titus, 59, and John L. Titus, his 28-year-old son, made their first and last commercial flight together as pilot and copilot of a Pan American World Airways flight from New York to London. Captain Titus, who will retire in August to serve as an International Co operation Administration technical adviser in Turkey, has logged 20,000 hours in transatlantic flight since joining Pan American in 1932, set an airline record of eight hours, 55 minutes for the New York-London flight...
...Hiroshima when the bomb dropped. Somber, inscrutable, he told what happened at that catastrophic moment and how afterwards, not wounded himself, he helped survivors. Then a young man was brought on stage whom Tanimoto had never before seen. He was introduced as Captain Robert Lewis, U.S.A.F., the copilot of the 6-29. Enola Gay, that dropped the bomb. After a slight hesitation, the two men shook hands. Then Lewis, now personnel manager of Henry Heide, Inc. (candymakers) in Manhattan, his voice unsteady with emotion, told how he had flown over Hiroshima the morning...
...four-engined Cessna 620 executive transport, to give flying executives the big-plane comfort, safety and speed they expect at the economy prices they like to pay. With four 320-h.p. Continental engines, Cessna's 620 will carry nine passengers (plus pilot and copilot), cruise at 235 m.p.h. for 1,300 miles, and climb to an altitude of 30,000 ft. Estimated price: about $300,000 v. up to $400,000 for a converted World War II bomber...
Last week Swissair, admitting "grave human failings" in its first fatal crash in 15 years, fired the pilot and copilot, and announced the simple, shocking cause of the tragedy: the crew had neglected to have the plane refueled at Geneva...
...Miglia took its annual toll. A French Citroen spun out, smacked into a tree, bounced into a crowd and injured eight people. The driver, Andre Bouchon, was killed and his copilot injured severely. In another accident, a 15-year-old boy was killed when a French Renault went off the road. In all, five were killed, 25 injured, including twelve drivers...