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Bill Wood sent in this cartoon.
Found in the "Between Ourselves" issue dated July 1943.
The Co-Pilot by Ken Murray CCA
I am the co-pilot; I sit on the right,
It's up to me to be quick and bright.
I never talk back, for l have regrets,
But I have to remember what the Captain forgets.
I make out the flight plan and study the weather,
Pull up the gear and stand by to feather;
Check the tanks and do the reporting,
And fly the old crate while the captain is courting.
I take the readings, adjust the power,
Put on the heaters when in a shower;
Tell him where we are on the darkest night,
And do all the bookwork without any light.
I call for my Captain and buy him cokes,
I always laugh at his corny jokes;
And once in a while when his landings are rusty,
I always come through with: "By gosh, it's gusty."
All in all, I'm a general stooge
As I sit on the right of the man I call "Scrooge."
I guess you think that is past understanding,
But maybe someday he will give me a landing.
Dress code for "PWA Flghtlines" magazine issue January 1987.
The UK airline industry is uniting behind the British Air Transport Association (BATA) to call for air passenger duty (APD) to be abolished across the UK during the next Parliament.
Larry Milberry, Publisher, CANAV Books tells us that some new books on aviation are available and invites readers to view the following web sites for details. Find CANAV on the web at: www.canavbooks.com and www.canavbooks.wordpress.com
Dubai International Airport has become the world's busiest airport for international passengers overtaking London Heathrow Airport when year-end figures for Dubai were released on January 27th., 2015.
Dubai processed over 71 million passengers in 2014. These are all international passengers, as no domestic United Arab Emirates (UAE) traffic uses Dubai International. London Heathrow recorded 68.1 million international passengers for 2014, although in terms of total passenger numbers it remains ahead of Dubai International, as a further 5.3 million domestic passengers passed through its terminals. The 73.4 million passenger total was up 1.4% on 2013.
There are airports elsewhere in the world that have higher numbers of total passengers- Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson and Beijing Capital airports - but these handle a higher proportion of domestic passengers.
Heathrow is increasingly capacity-constrained by its two runways. Successive UK governments over the past 40 years have failed to increase capacity in the crowded southeastern corner of the UK, whether by building a completely new hub or by allowing new runways to be built at Heathrow or Gatwick.
A Lockheed Super Star Constellation, one of only 44 ever built, is expected to roll out of a hangar in Auburn, Maine, sometime this year, after a seven-year restoration effort, the Boston Globe reported this week. The airplane, built in 1957, was bought at auction in December 2007 by a nonprofit arm of the Lufthansa airline, and reportedly up to $60 million so far has been spent on the project.
From the YVR e-magazine December 2014
A list of the greatest Canadian inventions made the rounds of mainstream and social media last month, timed to coincide with Canada Day. It's an impressive line-up. Some inventions are noble and life-changing: Insulin, Sonar, the electron microscope. Others are great fun: Ice Hockey, Five Pin Bowling, Imax. Still others are just plain delicious: Coffee Crisp, The Bloody Caesar Cocktail, Peanut Butter, McIntosh Apples.
But it's this practical invention that really elicits a mouth-watering response from us airport types: The Baggage Tag.
Moncton, New Brunswick native John Michael Lyons patented the world's first "separable coupon ticket" on June 5, 1882. In its early form, baggage tags were used for rail travel and consisted of a piece of perforated paper with the station, destination and number printed or written upon them. The upper half was attached by a strap to the piece of luggage, while the lower half went to the passenger.
Since its inception, a lot has changed with this humble workhorse of the travel industry. Today, tags are printed thermally and feature barcodes read by automatic tag readers to enable automated sorting and delivery to the correct aircraft through airports' complex baggage belt systems. And in keeping with the self-service check-in trend pioneered at YVR, many of today's bag tags are printed by travelers themselves. In fact, in 2012 YVR passengers printed a whopping 1.3 million baggage tags from kiosks in our check-in areas.
That's an average of 3,800 tags every single day.
Let's raise a spicy Caesar to Mr. Lyons and his indispensable invention.