After applying a tourniquet to his leg with the aid of the radar operator, Lt. Col. Vance, realizing that the ship was approaching a stall altitude with the 1 remaining engine failing, struggled to a semi-upright position beside the copilot and took over control of the ship.

At approximately 7: 40 pm the 727 took off with only Cooper, pilot Scott, flight attendant Mucklow, copilot Rataczak, and flight engineer H. E. Anderson aboard.

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On a plane with a pilot and copilot, or instructor and trainee, the plane is made capable of control without the crew changing seats.

For example, in jet airliners, the controls on the left ( captain's ) side include both the basic controls and those normally manipulated by the pilot in command, such as the tiller, whereas those of the right ( first officer's ) side include the basic controls again and those normally manipulated by the copilot, such as flap levers.

Leia then gives up politics and becomes Han's copilot, a position she holds for the next five years.

He became chief engineering test pilot a few years later, and in that capacity was served as copilot on the first flight of the Constellation on January 8, 1943.

The project coordinators ( including book publisher and publicist George P. Putnam ) interviewed Earhart and asked her to accompany pilot Wilmer Stultz and copilot / mechanic Louis Gordon on the flight, nominally as a passenger, but with the added duty of keeping the flight log.

In 1982, there was Halloween III: Season of the Witch, The Last Starfighter in 1984 as Grig, Alex Rogan's copilot, navigator, and sidekick, The Whoopee Boys in 1986 as a conman, John Huston's The Dead in 1987, in RoboCop, and its sequel RoboCop 2.

The copilot who was flying at that time retarded the throttles, however at that very moment the aircraft had passed the windshear zone and the nose of the aircraft slammed into the runway and bounced twice, destroying the nose landing gear.

The first ceramic plates found application in the aerospace sector: in 1965, the helicopter UH-1 Huey was modified with HFC ( Hard-Faced-Composite ) around the seats of pilot and copilot, protecting them against small arms fire.

* September 5 – Four armed men of the Abu Nidal Organization storm the Pan American World Airways Boeing 747-121 Clipper Empress of the Seas, operating as Flight 73 with 379 people on board, while it is on the ground at Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan ; the pilots, copilot, and flight engineer escape, grounding the plane.

The WWII-themed music video for " Shadows of the Night " featured then-unknown actors Judge Reinhold and Bill Paxton as an American fighter copilot and a German radio operator, respectively.

Casiraghi's copilot, Patrice Innocenti, survived the accident.

Faced with the lack of reliable basic flight instruments, constant contradictory warnings from the aircraft's flight computer ( some of which were valid and some of which were not ), and believing that they were at a safe altitude, pilot Eric Schreiber Ladrón de Guevara and copilot David Fernández Revoredo decided to cautiously begin descent for the approach to the airport.

He also made feature films during this time, beginning with the important role of Rod Taylor ’ s best friend and copilot, Mike Brewer, in The Hell with Heroes in 1968 and the next year in Generation.

The Flight Engineer position was usually placed on the main flight deck just aft of the pilot and copilot.

The copilot warned the captain that the bank angle was increasing.

She flew the KC-10 for six years at Barksdale Air Force Base in Bossier City, Louisiana, as a copilot, aircraft commander and instructor pilot.

In March 2000, the U. S. FAA amended operating rules to require that all U. S. registered turbine-powered airplanes with six or more passenger seats ( exclusive of pilot and copilot seating ) be equipped with an FAA-approved TAWS.

This allows the gun, which is mounted below the copilot station, to collapse cleanly into its designed space between the pilot stations in the event of a hard landing.

The B-24 lost altitude rapidly after the pilot was killed, but the wounded copilot regained controlled flight, preventing a stall by putting it into a steep glide to maintain airspeed.

Unable to climb into the seat vacated by the copilot, since his foot, hanging on to his leg by a few tendons, had become lodged behind the copilot's seat, he nevertheless made a successful ditching while lying on the floor using only aileron and elevators for control and the side window of the cockpit for visual reference.

Power arrived at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina in July, 1944 and was assigned to VMR-352 as an R5C transport copilot.

Despite complete blindness, at age 14, McWilliams joined the Civil Air Patrol, where he had the opportunity to copilot many small aircraft and tour an active ICBM launch facility at Whitman Air Force Base, Missouri.

His copilot, First Officer Edward R. Dunn, 41, a nine-year veteran of Eastern Airlines, had 8, 550 hours of flight time.

Maj. Gen. Polk ignored the problems of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson when he took command and, after Johnston took command, at first refused to comply with Johnston's order to send an engineer, Lt. Joseph K. Dixon, to inspect the forts.

Johnston wanted Major, later Lt. Gen., Alexander P. Stewart to command the forts but President Davis appointed Brig.

His only return to combat was directing a portion of the defenses against the attack by Confederate Lt. Gen. Jubal A.

Lt. John F. Kennedy, future U. S. President, saves all but two of his crew.

Lowell Smith and Lt. John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling on De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours.

* 1946 – Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.

In April 2008, Vice President Lt. Gen. Seretse Khama Ian Khama ( Ian Khama ), son of Seretse Khama the first president, succeeded to the presidency when Festus Mogae retired.

A photograph from October 1918, reproduced in many biographies, shows the then unknown Lt .- Col. Montgomery standing in front of Winston Churchill ( Minister of Munitions ) at the parade following the liberation of Lille.

During the party, Lt. Andrew Tyler enters looking solemn, having been denied his first command.

* The Andrew And The Onions: The Story Of The Royal Navy In Bermuda, 1795 – 1975, Lt.

: Auxiliary Field 6 is named Biancur Field for 1st Lt. Andrew Biancur, a test pilot of the Medium Bombardment Section of the 1st Proving Ground Group, killed 8 January 1944 in the crash of YP-61-NO Black Widow, 41-18883, c / n 711, at Eglin Field.

Morton was the hometown of Lt. Col. George Andrew Davis, Jr., a World War II Ace who was killed in the Korean War.

* The Andrew And The Onions: The Story of the Royal Navy in Bermuda, 1795-1975, by Lt .- Cmdr.

From The Andrew and the Onions, by Lt. Cmdr.

The teenagers find a downed United States Air Force F-15 pilot, Lt. Col. Andrew Tanner and learn about the current state of the war: several cities such as Washington, D. C., Kansas City, and Omaha have been obliterated, America's Strategic Air Command has been crippled in a surprise attack by Cuban saboteurs who had posed as immigrants illegally crossing the US-Mexico border, and the paratroopers the youths have encountered were dropped from fake commercial airliners to seize key positions in preparation for subsequent massive assaults via Mexico and Alaska.

* Powers Boothe as Lt. Col. Andrew " Andy " Tanner, USAF

Lt. General Andrew Anderson, born in Elgin, also of the East India Company, died in 1824 and bequeathed £ 70, 000 to the town to found an institution for the welfare of the elderly poor and for the education of orphans.

* Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr. ( MPA ' 80 )-United States Army, Lt. Col .; author of The Army and Vietnam

Born 1817, at St-Omer, France, to Lt .- Colonel Charles Stisted ( 1786 – 1842 ) of the 3rd Hussars, by his wife Eliza ( 1791 – 1822 ), daughter of Major-General Andrew Burn ( 1742 – 1814 ) of Gillingham, Kent.

On Flight Day 7 ( Thursday, 10 March 1994 ) Columbia's commander, John H. Casper had the pleasure to inform pilot Andrew M. Allen that he was selected for promotion from Major in the US Marine Corps to Lt.

In the course of the war, the First Sea Lord was represented by Admiral Sir Charles Little, Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, Admiral Sir Percy Noble, and Admiral Sir James Somerville ; the Chief of the Imperial General Staff was represented by Lt. Gen. Sir Coville Wemyss and Lt. Gen. G. N. Macready ; and the Chief of the Air Staff was represented by Air Marshal D. C. S. Evill, Air Marshal Sir William L. Welsh, and Air Marshal Douglas Colyer.

Named by USAS for Andrew Jackson, the seventh President of the United States, who signed the bill authorizing the United States Exploring Expedition, 1838 – 42, led by Lt. Charles Wilkes of the US Navy.

* Lt Gen. Andrew Figgures CBE ( born 1950 ), British Army officer.

He faced Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young and Lt.

* 45 Commando, Royal Marines ( Lt Col Andrew Whitehead ) — Red Beach-Douglas Settlement-Two Sisters.

On July 28, 1866, reacting to the influence of Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and President Andrew Johnson, Congress reorganized the Signal Corps and, with the permanent rank of colonel, Myer again became chief signal officer.

* Partial list of Bermudian-built Royal Naval vessels ( from The Andrew and the Onions, by Lt. Cmdr.

She also married Lt. Andrew Powell in the same year, and the two had a son.

Biancur Field, Eglin Auxiliary Field # 6, was named for 1st Lt Andrew Biancur, USAAF, a test pilot of the Medium Bombardment Section of the 1st Proving Ground Group, killed in crash of a prototype YP-61-NO Black Widow, AAF Ser.

He has starred on TV and in film ; his well known TV roles are on the hit NBC series Little House on the Prairie as Andrew ' Andy ' Garvey from 1977 – 1981, and on the CBS hit series JAG as Lt. Cmdr.

George Kent ( University of Rhode Island, New England Conservatory, Chorus of Westerly ), Andrew Balio ( Baltimore Symphony Orchestra ), Gilbert Blais ( Conservatoire de musique de Saguenay ), Peter Chapman ( Boston Symphony Orchestra ), Jon Paul Danté ( Paramount Brass Quintet, Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra ), Russell Devuyst ( Montreal Symphony Orchestra ), Kurt Dupuis (" The President's Own " U. S. Marine Band ), Anthony DiLorenzo ( Center City Brass, composer, recording artist ), Albert DiPietro ( Longy School of Music ), Joseph D. Foley ( Atlantic Brass Quintet, Wellesley College, Boston University ), William Harvey ( Oakland East Bay Symphony ), Edward Hoffman ( Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Peabody Institute ), Bruce Hopkins ( College of the Holy Cross ), Paul Jackson ( Alabama Symphony Orchestra ), Robert Lemons ( Eastern Connecticut State University ), Louis Larouche ( Québec Symphony Orchestra ), Steven Matera (" The President's Own " U. S. Marine Band ) Timothy Morrison ( Boston Symphony Orchestra, Hollywood recording artist ), Rodney Mack ( Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia ), Niel Mueller ( North Dakota State University ), Dennis Najoom ( Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra ), Gary Peterson ( Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Grieg Academy ), William Pfund ( University of Northern Colorado, Greeley Philharmonic Orchestra ), Marc Reese ( Empire Brass Quintet ), Betty Barber Rines ( Portland Symphony Orchestra ), Jay Rizzetto ( California State University, San Francisco Ballet ), John Schnell ( Portland Symphony Orchestra ), David Scott ( McNeese State University ), Lt Col Alan Sierichs ( The United States Air Force Band ), Rolf Smedvig ( Empire Brass Quintet ), Thomas V. Smith ( New York Philharmonic, Manhattan School of Music ), Edward Tarr ( trumpet soloist, historian ), James Thompson ( Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Eastman School of Music ), Peter Voisin ( Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra ), Linn Weeda ( Anchorage Symphony Orchestra, University of Alaska Anchorage ), Alan Wenger ( Central Missouri State University ), Mike Zonshine ( Honolulu Symphony ) Earl Gaar ( Top Brass Louisville KY ).