Airport and Airport 1975

Mxsmanic wrote in
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Dave J writes:

Ah! Maybe I'll read the book sometime. I have a feeling it'll have
more realistic detail fir aviation junkies!

It's out of print, unfortunately. I've been looking around for it for
a while.

To bump up your already vast knowledge, no doubt.


I suspect most of what you know is form these crappy movies....



Bertie

Mxsmanic wrote in
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writes:

_Airport_ was an excellent movie, although the book was even better.
Unfortunately, with so many parodies and mediocre disaster movies
around, it's hard to watch _Airport_ today without smiling.


No it was drivel. You thinking it was good in any way goes a long way
towards explaining your idiotic view of flying.


Berti

Mxsmanic wrote in
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Sylvain writes:

indeed. But we (macho chauvinistic pigs) were hoping that they would
have retired by now and replaced by younger / attractive generations
:-)

In the early days of aviation there were mostly young FAs because
aviation was itself too young to produce old FAs, at least in any
quantity.

Nope, wrong again.

Bertie

Hi,


In article ,
wrote:
Piloting is a job in which one learns indefinitely from experience

Nobody else spot this little gem? Seems like a bit of an about face to me.

Andy

Mxsmanic wrote:
Sylvain writes:

indeed. But we (macho chauvinistic pigs) were hoping that they
would have retired by now and replaced by younger / attractive
generations :-)

In the early days of aviation there were mostly young FAs because
aviation was itself too young to produce old FAs, at least in any
quantity.

Now, decades later, there have been many thousands of FAs working for
decades and so the number of older FAs with substantial seniority has
greatly increased. For FAs, seniority is everything, since once one
has learned to carry out the job competently, there are no other
criteria of advancement (the job can only be done so well).

Seniority is important for pilots, too, but there are other factors.
Piloting is a job in which one learns indefinitely from experience,
so that's a factor. Also, pilots are required to retire at a fairly
young age, which prevents seniority from becoming too much of an
issue.


DATA POINT
This morning on NPR they did their weekly series where one person interviews
another. Ususally an adult child or grandchild interviewing a parent or
grandparent. This morning it was a son interviewing his mother who was hired
as a stewerdess fro Delta in 1949. She had to quit (airline rule at the
time) when she got married.

On 2007-04-19, Dave J wrote:
The second movie, where a Baron hits the cockpit of a 747 and the

In a flash of cruel irony, if I remember right, the Baron used in that
film really did end up crashing in a mid air collision a few years
later....

....indeed, the NTSB report is here
http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?e...13X29141&key=2

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On 2007-04-19, Bob Noel wrote:
All of the Airport movies are funny when first watched after viewing "Airplane"

Now watch "Zero Hour" through the lens of "Airplane". The main character
in Zero Hour is even called Ted Striker.

It's so bad it's good.

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Ron Natalie wrote:
wrote:

Say, does anyone speak jive?


Cold, got to be!

Golly!


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"Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote in
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Mxsmanic wrote:
Sylvain writes:

indeed. But we (macho chauvinistic pigs) were hoping that they
would have retired by now and replaced by younger / attractive
generations :-)

In the early days of aviation there were mostly young FAs because
aviation was itself too young to produce old FAs, at least in any
quantity.

Now, decades later, there have been many thousands of FAs working for
decades and so the number of older FAs with substantial seniority has
greatly increased. For FAs, seniority is everything, since once one
has learned to carry out the job competently, there are no other
criteria of advancement (the job can only be done so well).

Seniority is important for pilots, too, but there are other factors.
Piloting is a job in which one learns indefinitely from experience,
so that's a factor. Also, pilots are required to retire at a fairly
young age, which prevents seniority from becoming too much of an
issue.


DATA POINT
This morning on NPR they did their weekly series where one person
interviews another. Ususally an adult child or grandchild interviewing
a parent or grandparent. This morning it was a son interviewing his
mother who was hired as a stewerdess fro Delta in 1949. She had to
quit (airline rule at the time) when she got married.

Proper order too.

Bertie

Dylan Smith wrote:
On 2007-04-19, Dave J wrote:

The second movie, where a Baron hits the cockpit of a 747 and the


In a flash of cruel irony, if I remember right, the Baron used in that
film really did end up crashing in a mid air collision a few years
later....

...indeed, the NTSB report is here
http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?e...13X29141&key=2

Man, speaking about contractions and abbreviations, what the *heck* is
up with that NTSB report????

Happy Flying!
Scott Skylane