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Lewis M. Thompson (the copilot) gave it more power as I nosed it down at the peak of each bounce and pulled back as we hit the swells and waves, easing the blow and still increasing air speed...
Last week, this toughest of take-off troubles happened to a Pennsylvania Central Airlines pilot as he left the hill-bordered Charleston (W.Va.) field, headed for Pittsburgh with six passengers, copilot and stewardess aboard. Pilot Russell Wright had lifted his 10-passenger Boeing 2470 no more than 10 feet off the ground when his starboard motor quit cold. He was past the point where he could plump down on the airport; he had to go on. Quickly he feathered the prop on the dead engine, thus killed its racking rotation, ruinous drag. Co-pilot William Riley snapped up the landing...
...sighted the DC-3, whipped back to Vero Beach, ten miles away, for help. Captain O'Brien was still flying the plane through that morning's murderous thunderstorm. "Come on, Mac," he mumbled, "help me pull this wheel-we've got to get altitude." His copilot, B. M. Crabtree, had a broken leg. He sat cheerfully and waited...
Lieut. Hanson and Ensign Robert B. Clark, the copilot, stuck by the ship...
...pair of shoes as it does to ship your wife. But with this difference, the box of shoes does not need a stewardess, or heat, or soundproofing or comfortable chairs, cargo needs no electric lights, no toilets, no lunch, and no fancy advertising promotion, elaborate ticket office or copilot. . . . The most important thing is to get the rate down, and at once, and this cannot be done under the present setup...