Word: copilot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their meager $12-$18 per diem allowance. Trim, reserved Bill Draper is a thoroughgoing professional, a World War II Air Corps transport pilot flying the "fireball run" between Miami and India, personal pilot for President Eisenhower since 1950, when Ike was Supreme Allied Commander of NATO forces in Europe. Copilot is Iowa-born Lieut. Colonel William Thomas, 39, veteran of the Hump and Berlin airlift; navigator is Brooklyn-born Lieut. Colonel Vincent Puglisi, 41. Filling out the rest of the crew are a third pilot (who sits in for Draper or Thomas when either leaves his station), two flight engineers...
...Body, so named because of the nude painted on its nose. Buzz looks like a burly motorcycle cop, rakes over his crew in billingsgate, yips earsplitting war whoops as the bombs drop away, and slavers over off-duty hobbies that would make good latrine-wall copy. Why diffident Copilot Charles Boman, the novel's first-person narrator, hero-worships Buzz is a mystery, but it is presumably because Marrow oozes self-confidence and is a genius at the flight controls. Poor Bo is colorless, decent, sensitive about being short, and his virtue consists of the absence of vice...
...seduce her. it is Daphne who alerts Bo to his hero's lies, bluster and twisted bravery-"the courage that wants to be alone, that really wants death for all.'' On The Body's final mission, Buzz keeps his neurotic rendezvous with death, but Copilot Bo does not make it a double date...
...sitting duck. The 670-m.p.h. Red jets swooped down in six passes altogether, scored 15 to 20 damaging hits, knocked out both starboard engines, and left the rudder usable only by its trim tabs. While Plane Commander Mayer kept a lookout, Lieut. Commander Vincent Joseph Anania, 39, the copilot at the controls, put the plane into a steep, top-speed dive and leveled out just 50 ft. above the sea. The MIGs broke off. Mayer ordered all movable equipment dumped overboard and, alternating at the controls with Anania, lucked his smoking, limping Mercator back 300 nautical miles to a landing...
...comic strip can hardly outrace reality. It is, after all, possible for a carelessly fired deer rifle to damage the window of a parked B-47. The damage could very well spread under the stress of flight. And when a window blows out at 46,000 feet, pilot and copilot alike might just possibly be too stunned to nose down to safety. Granted those coincidences, the rest of Operation Intercept was a neat exercise in airborne shock...