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THE SKYLINER
September 10, 1939
Flying President Meet JA CK FRY E. He's President of TW A . A nd, like all TW A major operating officials, he's a pilot.
TARPA TOPICS THE MAGAZINE OF THE TWA ACTIVE RETIRED PILOTS ASSOCIATION
FEATURE ARTICLES:
DEPARTMENTS:
TARPA CONVENTION '00 9 CAPTAIN TED HEREFORD 23 by Bob Dedman THE MAUI CONNECTION 62 by Clyde Nixon RAUNCHY DOG by Charles Davis OUT OF EGYPT by C. Davis TWA BOOK OF RULES 1932
PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE John P. Gratz
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EDITOR'S NOTE
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SECRETARY/TREASURE Phil Belisle
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GRAPEVINE by Hank Gastrich
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Material contained in TARPA Topics may be used by non-profit or charitable organizations. All other use of material must be by permission of the Editor. All inquires concerning the is publication should be addressed to : John P. Gratz, Editor TARPA TOPICS 1646 Timberlake Manor Parkway Chesterfield, MO 63017
Cover: Boeing 757 landing in SEA TOPICS is an official publication of TARPA , a non-profit corporation.. Editor bears no responsibility for accuracy or unauthorized use of contents.
Photo: Courtesy of Editor
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EDITOR
ASSOCIATE EDITOR GRAPEVINE EDITOR
HISTORIAN
HISTORIAN EMERITUS FLOWN WEST COORDINATOR INTERNET WEBMASTER
John P. Gratz 1646 Timberlake Manor Pkwy Chesterfield, MO 63017 (636) 532-8317 jppjg@msn.com David R. Gratz 1034 Caroll St. Louis, MO 63104 dave@dgratz.com Henry E. Gastrich 291 Jamacha Rd, Apt 52 El Cajon, CA 92019-2381 (619) 401-9969 hankflew@aol.com 1276 Belvoir Lane Felix M. Usis III Virginia Beach, VA 23464-6746 (757) 420-5445 73644.3341@compuserve.com Edward G. Betts 960 Las Lomas Pacific Palisades, CA 90272 (310) 454-1068 John S. Bybee 2616 Saklan Indian Drive #1 Walnut Creek, CA 94595 (925)938-3492 Jack Irwin 2466 White Stable Road (314) 432-3272 Town and Country, MO 63131 jack@smilinjack.com
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS, 1999/00 PRESIDENT
FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT
SECOND VICE PRESIDENT
SECRETARY/TREASURER
SENIOR DIRECTOR
DIRECTOR
DIRECTOR
PAST-PRESIDENT
John P. Gratz 1646 Timberlake Manor Pkwy Chesterfield, MO 63017 (636) 532-8317 jppjg@msn.com Robert W. Dedman 3728 Lynfield Drive (757) 463-2032 Virginia Beach, VA 23452 rwd@sybercom.net 1810 Lindbergh Ln H.O. Van Zandt Daytona Beach FL 32124 (904) 767-6607 hopvz@compuserve.com Phillip M. Belisle 3145 Geary Blvd, PMB 705 San Francisco, CA 94118-3316 (415) phil_les@compuserve.com 567-992 Harry A. Jacobsen 848 Coventry Street Boca Raton, FL 33487 (561) 997-0468 jeanjake@aol.com Larry Ashcraft 15435 E Shore Big Fork MT 59911 (406) 982-3366 larjet@pti.net 15510 Wendimill Dr. Stephen R. Wiese Chesterfield MO 63017 (636) 256-7732 swiese@compuserve.com David M. Davies 233 S.E.Rogue River Hwy Grants Pass, OR 97527 (503) 476-5378 ddavies@alpronet
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PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE We are approaching the mid-summer of this special year, 2000. The Seattle Convention Committee has a great gathering laid out with an exciting program set in the scenic natural spendor of the Great northwest. Fish-eaters of the world rejoice! Ev Green and the Committee have been reaching out through various means to encourage early sign-ups. Historically, our astute Members have held on to their elusive spondulics until the latest possible day. While that approach is understandable, it does create an undo amount of angst for our Convention Committees, since hotels and service providers demand guarantees and potential penalties to schedule a large event like a TARPA Convention. You will see in their pages that the Seattle Committee has come up with an inducement to encourage earlier sign-ups. For our future Conventions, I will ask the Board of Directors to consider new policy guidelines ' to address this recurring problem. Meanwhile, you can do your part by signing up for this year s TARPA Convention in Seattle today! Everyone is aware that TWA is celebrating its 75 th Anniversary this year. Events are scheduled for seal of the major stations. The Skyliner has up to date information on all of the events and the books and souvenirs available. Because I reside in the St. Louis area and, have demonstrated an interest in TWA History, I have been asked to help with some of the activities. First of all, by helping to locate and arrange appearances of vintage TWA type aircraft for the TWA Open aHouse nd Fair St. Louis Air Show. The task most often requested is to provide names and information about Retired pilots. Lately, arrangements were made for three retirees; myself th included, to be interviewed for the July issue of Airways Magazine, which has the TWA 75 as the cover story. My most recent activity, has been helping a producer from the local PBS television station gather memorabilia and contact Members of TARPA for interviews about the way things were. When completed, that documentary should be available for wide distribution President Fraternally Yours
P. Gratz
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EDITOR'S NOTE We hope that you enjoy this issue as much as we have enjoyed putting it together. Once again you will find works of two of our most prolific writers, Bill Dixon and Charles Davis. What would we do without `em? Bill has penned a moving tribute to one of our illustrious brother members, Ted Hereford. Ted is a little embarrassed by it but, says that he will join us in Seattle to set the record straight. Ted is trying to persuade his old friend Bob Buck to come out also. Two new members of our writer's coterie are; First Clyde Nixon who has produced a moving piece about Charles Lindbergh based on the "Lone Eagle's" relationship with TWA, St. Louis and Maui. Second, we have an interesting piece from Robert Zimmerman, who writes of exciting times in Cairo when it was a Domicile. Ray Gentile sent us a copy of TWA policies from its first year as Trans Continental and Western Air. These pages may be difficult for some to read, but we believe that they are worthy of your attention. Finally, we again have a sign-up page for the 39th Annual Wickenburg Roundup. Those who have never attended that great event should take that page and use it to make your reservations. Wickenburg has a long and happy connection with TWA folks.
Photos in this issue of TOPICS Courtesy of Charles Davis, Scott Dine, Ted Hereford, Clyde Nixon and Chris Watts.
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TARPA BOARD OF DIRECTORS ST. LOUIS, MO. 03-28-00 The annual TARPA Board meeting was called to order at 3:00 P.M. at the Henry VIII Hotel, TARPA President John P. Gratz presiding. Officers and Directors Present: John P. Gratz Robert W. Dedman Larry Ashcraft
Harry A. Jacobsen H. O. Van Zandt
Phillip M. Belisle Stephen R. Weise
Capt. John Gratz introduced Mr. Scott Schwartz, representative of T.O. Richardson, the investment management firm. Mr. Schwartz has expressed interest in advertising the firm in the TARPA TOPICS magazine. Capt. Robert Dedman entered the name of Norm Gray to replace Ev Green on the TARPA nominating committee. He also noted that we have yet to find a new editor for the magazine. Capt. H. O. Van Zandt our new second vice president, is completing the E-MAIL tree. With about 850 addresses, TARPA can now contact many members with more timely information and save postage at the same time. Capt. Phil Belisle reported dues collection was about $35,000 to date, and the bank account reached $62,000 before payment of the latest mailing. The march issue of TARPA TOPICS and the DIRECTORY 2000 will cost about $21,000. The completed 1999 tax return was shown to the board. Our CPA uses our "Quicken" records to prepare the return. The computer records enable us to see our financial history and make better plans for TARPA financial future. Mr. Scott Schwartz was given time to introduce himself and the activities of the T. O. Richardson Company. They work with pilots to help manage retirement funds. Board members asked many questions and thanked Mr. Schwartz for his presentation.
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RESOLUTION 1-2000
Be it resolved TARPA members Jim Breslin, Norm Gray and Fred Arenas are appointed to serve as the TARPA NOMINATING COMMITTEE. MOVED DEDMAN ,SECONDED ASHCRAFT, PASSED UNANIMOUSLY RESOLUTION 2-2000 Whereas Philadelphia is one of the original TWA stations and the historic site of our nations independence. Be it resolved that Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is selected as the location of TARPA CONVENTION 2001. Be it further resolved that Captain Clark Billie is appointed Convention Chairman for TARPA 2001. MOVED BELISLE, SECONDED WEISE, PASSED UNANIMOUSLY RESOLUTION 3-2000 Be it resolved that the President is authorized to discuss the issue of advertisement in TARPA TOPICS with representatives of the T. O. Richardson Company; and that any final decision on this issue will be made by the Board of Directors. MOVED DEDMAN, SECONDED ASHCRAFT, PASSED UNAMIMOUSLY RESOLUTION 4-2000 Be it resolved that TARPA POLICIES (CONVENTION SURPLUS) be amended to read as follows: In the event the allocated to the These funds will MOVED DEDMAN,
annual convention generates a monetary surplus, the funds will be TWA Pilot Foundation and the Roy Van Etten Scholarship Fund. be distributed when directed by the Executive Committee. SECONDED ASHCRAFT, PASSED UNANIMOUSLY
The meeting adjourned at 6.00 P.M. CST
Phillip M. Belisle TARPA Secretary/Treasurer
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The TWA Active Retired Pilots Association
May 19, 2000
Dear Members, I just sent out 181 dues reminder post cards, and have received 34 checks the first week. Each year we remove several members from the mailing list for non-payment of dues. Most of the time folks simply forget or overlook the November billing. Remember to look at your TARPA mailing label. The year shows your current dues paid status. It should be (2000) or later. My main fear with the late dues question is that you have moved and we don't have your new address. We not only waste printing and mailing the magazine once, but possibly several times before we correct your address. Please keep your data current. The `Directory 2000" is our latest attempt to keep us in touch with one another. This year we mailed about 2050 copies. Our directory is out of date almost immediately because as a group, we change often. One solution would be to publish the directory each year. I would appreciate any comments and suggestions you might have concerning our directory. Finally, after my summer vacation, I'll look forward to seeing you in Seattle. My last TWA flight was in our elegant L-1011 (PDX-SEA-STLLGA) and the best stop was always Seattle. Get your Seattle reservations in now !!!!
Phi Belisle TARPA SEC/TREAS
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COME and enjoy the hospitality of the Pacific Northwest at the 2000 TARPA Seattle convention. See your old flying buddies and make new friends while we celebrate TWA's 75th anniversary together. You will be impressed with our first-class hotel with its atrium lobby, restaurants and spacious rooms. Our committee has been planning some very special tours for you to enjoy the scenic beauty of Washington, the Evergreen State, and we look forward to introducing you to some of the unique foods and wines of Washington State. It will be apple harvest time in Eastern Washington, the Apple Capital of the World, and you will have a selection of orchard-fresh fruit daily. So make plans now to come and join in the fun! Plan to stay after the convention and take a trip to Victoria and Vancouver, British Columbia. Or take one of the many other tours available. The hotel advises that you may come three days earlier and stay three days later at the same rates. See you in Seattle! On behalf of our entire committee, we look forward to welcoming you here. Ev Green All Early Bird sign ups will receive a special gift at the registration desk. In addition, your names will be included in a drawing for a float plane sightseeing flight for two. Don't miss out--get those forms in ASAP!
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TARPA 2000 SEA Date
Depart Return
Event
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BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF PROPOSED TOURS SPACE NEEDLE! CITY TOUR
This is a tour covering many interesting locations in Seattle including the 520' Space Needle, Pioneer Square, a scenic view spot, Pike Place Market, University of Washington, and the Hiram Chittenden Locks where boats pass between Puget Sound and Lake Union. We'll spend enough time at the Space Needle/Seattle Center for lunch, if desired. Space Needle admission is $6. Tour lasts 4 hours.
LAKES WASHINGTON & UNION CRUISE This cruise starts in Lake Union which is primarily devoted to business use, although there are many houseboats moored there. (Did you see "Sleepless in Seattle"?) It is also the home of a number of restaurants, a sea plane base, Gas Works Park and the Museum of Wooden Boats. From there you proceed through the ship canal passing more houseboats, restaurants, boat yards, yacht clubs and the University of Washington before arriving at Lake Washington. The portion of Lake Washington covered will be mostly the residential high rent district, including the $80 million estate of Bill Gates. Tour lasts 1 1/2 hours.
BOEING TOURS
There will be a VIP tour of the Boeing Renton Plant where the TWA 757s are produced. The Renton plant is close to the hotel. The Boeing Everett plant is 45 minutes north by bus and is where 747s and 777s are built.
MUSEUM OF FLIGHT
Part of this museum is housed in the original Boeing building, the Red Barn at Boeing Field. The tour offers a brief movie then you are free to explore the exhibits, from bi-planes to supersonics, including an Air Force One 707, space capsule, and Blackbird. Also displayed is a Curtiss Robin restored and donated by TWA's own Perry Schreffler and Bob Van Ausdell. Lunch will be catered by one of Seattle's best restaurants in our private dining room, the South View Lounge which has views of the runway and Mount Rainier.
SNOQUALMIE FALLS/ REDMOND TOUR According to some sources, Snoqualmie Falls is the second most popular tourist attraction in our area. This trip combines a tour to the falls with a visit to the Redmond Mall where you will be on your own for shopping and lunch.
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BAY/TILLICUM ELLIOTT VILLAGE DINNER TOUR The most popular tour in Washington, don't miss this highly recommended experience. A unique dining event is combined with a wonderful cruise on Puget Sound. You will proceed by bus across the Lake Washington floating bridge to the Seattle waterfront where you will board the cruise boat. Enjoy great views of the city and the Olympic Mountains. It proceeds across the sound to Blake Island where you will enter a Native American cedar longhouse and be served a salmon dinner prepared in traditional fashion baked on cedar stakes over an alder fire. During dinner, Native Americans will perform interpretive dances in full costume. SPIRIT OF WASHINGTON DINNER TRAIN The train follows a scenic route from Renton north along Lake Washington then inland north to the Columbia Winery near Woodinville. The train accommodates 118 diners in the dome cars and 220 in parlor cars. Dinner is served outbound and dessert on the return trip. There is a tour of the Columbia Winery, including wine tasting.
ROSALIE WHYELL MUSEUM OF DOLL ART TOUR
The museum is dedicated to the collection, preservation, exhibition and interpretation of dolls as an art form. This is a world class exhibit judged the best private art collection in the world in 1994 in Paris. In addition to the doll exhibit, they focus on the history of doll making. They have agreed to open early on Saturday to accommodate our group.
ELLIOTT BAY DINNER CRUISE
Enjoy a magical evening on beautiful Elliott Bay while enjoying dinner, a li ve musical show and dancing. The beauty of Seattle's skyline and the Olympic mountains at dusk is breathtaking.
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DO-IT-YOURSELF TOURS The Northwest is filled with a wide variety of interesting sightseeing destinations and we will have information available on request and at the convention. Please check boxes below to indicate your interests. ❑ Columbia Gorge Spectacular river canyon cut into volcanic rock by the mighty Columbia river providing the only sea-level route through the Cascade range. Numerous waterfalls and interesting geology. Bremerton Naval Shipyards ❑ Fleet repair and nuclear sub facility on Bainbridge Island. ❑ Victoria, B.C., Canada With double-decker buses and afternoon tea, you might think you are in England. World famous Butchart Gardens. By boat or plane from Seattle or take your car on ferry from Anacortes or Vancouver. ❑ Vancouver, B.C., Canada Three hours north of Seattle by car, bus or plane. Beautiful Stanley Park. A very interesting city and a major seaport. ❑ Mount Rainier At 14,111', Washington's highest mountain. Mt Rainier National Park is one of the most popular destinations for sightseers and worldclass mountain climbers. ❑ Mount St. Helens Visit the National Volcanic Monument with detailed information about the catastrophic eruption. ❑
Mountain hikes and other walking tours Washington is a hiker's dream with wellmaintained trails throughout the Cascades.
❑ Float Plane Tours Sightseeing flights and wilderness fishing from Lake Union (near downtown Seattle). ❑ White water or scenic river rafting There are a number of rafting possibilities with experienced guides. ❑
Port Townsend & Olympic National Park
On the Olympic Peninsula, Victorian town of Port Townsend. Lush rain forest of Olympic National Park. Many hiking opportunities of all levels. ❑ San Juan Islands and Whale Watching Take the San Juan Explorer from Seattle or take your car on ferry from Anacortes. ❑
Leavenworth Bavarian Village, Wenatchee Valley and Lake Chelan On the east side of the beautiful Cascade Mountain range visit the Bavarian village and Wenatchee, the Apple Capital of the World. Lake Chelan is a deep, glacial lake with a scenic boat ride 22 miles through wilderness to Stehekin at the head of the lake. See mountain goats and eagles. ❑ Fishing Tours Custom fishing tours of British Columbia or Washington. ❑ Ferry Ride Visit one of the many islands in the Puget Sound via the Washington State Ferry system from Seattle.
IF THERE IS ENOUGH INTEREST, A THREE-DAY POST-CONVENTION TOUR TO VICTORIA AND VANCOUVER WILL BE ARRANGED.
Victoria & Vancouver ❑ Escorted 3-day post-convention tour to Canada. Please note: There are no cruises to Alaska after September 30. Anyone wishing to take this highly recommended cruise should check with their travel agent about doing it prior to the convention. PAGE 16... TARPA TOPICS... JULY, 2000
FURTHER INFORMATION Situated in the heart of Bellevue, our convention hotel, the Doubletree, is just 15 minutes from downtown Seattle and 25 minutes from Sea/Tac. Bellevue Square, the largest shopping mall in the Northwest, is a few blocks away. A short drive will take you to all of Seattle's many attractions, several wineries and many high-tech firms. There is excellent bus service throughout the area. Doubletree offers free parking, including parking for motor homes when the owner is occupying an hotel room. Our hotel offers several entertainment options. Velato's Restaurant serves Northwest cuisine with an Italian flair, while the Atrium Cafe offers casual dining for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Enjoy evening activity at the lively Misty's Lounge or relax in the Quiet Bar. Work out on a range of equipment at the exercise facility or unwind in the swimming pool and spa. Please make your hotel reservations by calling 1-800-222-8733 (national reservations number) and mention the TARPA GROUP RATE of $110 single or double. Hotel address is 300 - 112th Avenue SE, Bellevue, WA 98004. Fax number is (425) 455-0466. Hotel phone number is (425) 455-1300. (There is another, smaller Doubletree in Bellevue, so please note this address). Shuttle Express from Sea/Tac has a convenient schedule and costs $13. Call 622-1424 after you arrive. All major rental companies are represented at the airport and Budget cars are available at the hotel. For those wishing to fly in, there are FBOs at Boeing Field and Renton. Convention Committee: Chairman: Co-Chairman: Co-Chairmen: Co-Chairmen: Co-Chairmen: Co-Chairmen:
Ev Green (509) 782-3006 Email: GreenEv@aol.com Fax: 509-782-4363 Jess Green, Banquet, Badges, Computer Email Jessgreen6@aol.com Ted & Maxine Misselwitz, Tours, Banquet & Schedule (206) 232-4278 Email: Tmisselwitz@juno.com Dave & Sharon Amundsen, Treasurer, Banquet & Tours (425) 455-3452 Email: skychief@gascan.com Cliff & Nita Bjork, Sports, Banquet & Hospitality (253) 549-2110 Email:Cbjork@worldnet.att.net Mary & Sally Schliep, Sports, Hospitality & Tours (253) 858-9795
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THE STRANGE WORLD OF CALENDARS by Bill Dixon This photo of a 1961 TWA calendar had, until recently, been hanging in our garage since I retired in 1978 and moved to San Jose, CA, from NY. Having been with TWA for 41 years, for nostalgic reasons I kept this big, beautiful 16" x 24" calendar where I could see it. It is a far cry from most airline calendars today. A few months ago, I happily found a similar one for 1972 tucked in an old chest in the garage. They both crossed the country several times with us on company transfers. I admired the old calendar and wished today's were as commanding, but seldom glanced at it. But in April, I noticed that April dates for the year 2000 exactly matched 1961! Checking the balance of the year, my wife and I were so pleased that the month's and day's dates all matched, we promoted the grand old calendar to our kitchen. Its 1961 date excites questions from visitors -- like "What are you doing with that antique calendar?" Imagine our chagrin to discover that '61 and '72 weren't completely comparable after all! Thumbing back through the 1961 pages as we were hanging it in the house, we found that January and February, 1961, were a day off from this year's calendar. Why were those two months an exception? Equally astonishing, we examined the 1972 calendar and learned that it was an exact replica date-wise for year 2000! Did the eleven years difference between 1961 and 1972 have any significance; the 28 years difference between 1972 and 2000? They did. With my interest aroused, I checked into calendar history at the public library. I found that calendar yearly dates recur identically only every 28 years! Adjustments necessitated by the 29-day February leap year falling every four years is the reason. That explains the 1972 calendar being the same as this year, 2000, but 1961 being partially off. The next match won't be until the year 2028. I don't plan to check it out! Last but not least, the Gregorian calendar, now in general use, was introduced By Pope Gregory XIII- in 1582, to correct a slight error in the Julian calendar.
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TWA Seniors
39th Annual Round-Up Wickenburg, Arizona October 26, 27 & 28, 2000
GOLF TENNIS HORSEBACK RIDING JEEP TOURS WESTERN ART GALLERIES SWIMMING HORSE SHOES TRAP SHOOTING
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ACTIVITIES I NFORMATION Golf $59 for 18 holes • Cart $16 per person $42 for 9 holes • Cart $10 per person
Horseback Riding $38 for 2 Hour Morning Ride $30 for 1.5 hour Afternoon Ride
Trap Shooting $30 per round • Includes Gun & Ammo
Jeep Tours $55 per person for 2 Hours Trips to local mine, etc. All prices subject to 6% Sales Tax, 15% Gratuity in lieu of tipping
Sign up for you favorite activities upon your arrival. These also include: Men's & Ladies Putting Contests Horse Shoe Tournament Bridge Tournament Table Tennis & Pool
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A CAPT.
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THIS PHOTO IS TO GO ALONG WITH THE ARTICLE BY OUR OWN EDITOR IN THE MARCH, TOPICS, ON PG. 52. THIS IS A PICTURE OF OF THE CAPT. WILLIE MILLER INSTRUCTIONAL CENTER LOCATED AT THE DAYTONA BEACH, FL., CAMPUS OF EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY. DOROTHEE MILLER MADE A GIFT TO HONOR THE MEMORY OF WILLIE!
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SUBSTANTIAL
CAPTAIN TED HEREFORD -- A PILOT LEGEND! By Bill Dixon Captain Ted Hereford, age 90, living in Sun City, California, and who today looks no more than 70 at most, is believed to be the last of the original TWA pilots still living. Born on Nov. 14, 1909, in Tucson, Arizona, then a territory, he started his long airline pilot career with Western Air Express on April 6, 1930, being hired by Jack Frye, a Vice-President with WAE, which had recently bought Frye's Standard Airlines. Frye subsequently, became a legend in his own right as TWA's president.
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Ted soloed in a WWI Jenny with an OX5 90 h.p. engine in December 1925, in five to six hours. He hadn't been interested in planes until visiting the Tucson airport with a friend. He talked a passing barn-stormer, Charley Mayse, with pilot license #352, into teaching him to fly. Lessons were $35 per hour, and he sold his motorcycle to help pay for them. After logging 50 hours, he persuaded Mayse to hire him as an instructor. He had decided to stay in Tucson, flying passengers and instructing. Later, Ted ran a small flying school until joining WAE with approximately 1000 hours. He got his mechanics license in 1927. Possessing that probably helped him get his copilot job, Ted believes, since sometimes they were drafted for emergency mechanical repair. Ted maintained a lifetime friendship with, and respect for Frye, whom he met in 1928 in Los Angeles. He sought a job with Standard but couldn't afford to pay $200 a month for the copilot position, which was demanded, for the value of the "big plane" experience! Bill Dowling, also later a WAE and TWA pilot, paid for the opportunity. Dowling checked out as captain before Ted on WAE, although junior in employment, because of experience gained on Standard and possibly because Ted was younger. Ted became a Captain on April 20, 1931, barely age 21, just over a year after employment. Seniority then was based on captain checkout, not date of hire. Other pilots Ted regarded highly, were airline pioneers Paul Richter, Walt Hamilton, Lee Flanagan, John Collings, Larry Fritz and Pat Gallup, all pilots except Hamilton, who was a maintenance expert. Ted was also was a close friend of Harlan Hull, who was chief pilot for TWA when he was killed in a Boeing 307 (Stratoliner) crash on a test flight in the late 1930's. On that catastrophic flight, Harlan was in the cockpit as an observer, when one wing broke off from overstress. It had a stiff wing, and that was when designers learned a wing had to be able to flex in rough air Ted met Hull in 1927 , at an air show in Flagstaff, Arizona, and they later became close buddies and handball opponents when both were with TWA. Hull was one of three Navy pilots who performed at the Flagstaff airport opening ceremonies. The airport was so ill sited near a mountain, it later closed. Ted and Mayse were there to take up passengers for 10 minute local flights. The cost was $10, but the downdrafts were so bad, they barely managed one flight in their low powered craft. The Navy made it ok with their more powerful fighters. Harlan accused me of sometimes being contrary, Ted mentioned, when talking about Hull. When I was 3 days short of 27, he called me to say I had better behave from now on. The reason he gave was that most airlines no longer employed any pilot who was 27 or older, so I would sure be out of luck now if he fired me! Ted's first trip as copilot on WAE (and they doubled as flight attendants) was on a Fokker Tri-Motor, which is the only plane he flew on WAE. He said copilots served the box meals and cleaned up the mess. They flew low then, where the air was rough, and airsickness was very common! His all-time favorite aircraft were the Ford Tri-motor, the Northrop Alpha & Delta, and the Convair 880.
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His last trip as captain was piloting an 880, on November 11, 1969, into San Francisco, his final domicile. One of the flight attendants was his daughter, Marla, based in LAX, who was especially assigned to the flight. He obviously was surprised when greeted by a large group of pilots, including Bill Townsend, retired SFO chief pilot, and being congratulated enroute from Chicago by each ATC sector, which had been arranged with ATC. His copilot revealed Ted was touched, and grew quieter and quieter as they cruised toward his final landing. At that time I was the SFO chief pilot and when he deplaned Hereford told me that he had finally accepted that this flight marked his last time at the controls of an airliner. He stepped off with a big smile, looking very chipper. He was even wearing his hat, which a doctor told him years ago to avoid, as it could cause him to lose his bountiful head of blond, wavy hair! (See Bob Buck's comment later.) Aviation took a giant leap forward during the time frame encompassed by Captain Hereford's distinguished flying career, which covered approximately 45 years! He logged over 30,000 hours on single-engines to jets, including the DC-1, 2, and 3, and flew as captain for 38.5 years, very possibly a record! Most persons think the DC-1 was never used on scheduled flights, but Ted flew it several times when it was substituted for a DC-2. "It wasn't very comfortable, so TWA never admitted to its use on schedule," Ted disclosed. It had 14 seats. He was piloting a DC-2 during a blizzard on the route between Kansas City and Wichita one stormy winter night in the mid thirties, when the nose cone and propeller suddenly flew off the right engine. The cone had shattered, and an intense fire flared up. The extinguisher quickly smothered the blaze, and they landed safely at Wichita during a heavy snow after a range approach. Following an exhaustive search, the non-feathering, two position prop wasn't found until the snow melted in the spring. It landed smack-dab in the center of a farmer's corral. He didn't know what the big piece of metal was until turning it in to the nearest postoffice, and was happily surprised with a reward. The CAA originally, in spite of Ted's description of events, insisted to Operations VicePresident Paul Richter, which he never believed, that Captain Hereford must have been flying too close to the ground in order to stay under the overcast, and hit something to knock off the prop, since it was an uncommon failure. It was a ridiculous theory, and not long after Ted's experience, a DC-2 lost a prop in the same manner at Pittsburgh right after touchdown. After seeing the prop off Ted's plane, plus the one at Pittsburgh, an embarrassed CAA quietly dropped its investigation of Ted. It is surprising that Ted chose to be a pilot. His father, at age 21, was a deputy sheriff in Pima County, and lived in Tombstone, Arizona. He went on to become a leading lawyer who declined nomination for governor, and had the honorary title of Chancellor of the University of Arizona, before his death at age 67. Ted's grandfather, Ben Hereford, was equally well known. He was well acquainted with the famous Earp brothers and other colorful characters of the territory. Later, Hereford, Arizona was named after him. Considering the accomplishment of his illustrious forefathers, TWA and the piloting profession
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are fortunate that he chose airplanes. He was never interested in a desk job. His long time employer, Transcontinental and Western Air, called TWA from the start, was formed on October 1, 1930, through a merger of Western Air Express, T.A.T. Maddux, and Pittsburgh Aviation Industries. The new airline was forced into being by the Postmaster General to reduce the number of routes and cost of airmail. WAE's pilots were given the choice of staying with their sized-down airline or transferring to TWA. Ted took TWA, feeling its future looked better, and he was right. Seniority lists were more or less merged, he recollects, and he went from #21 on WAE to #41 on TWA. He was number 1 on TW for his last seven years. Ted had many Domiciles at one time or another; Los Angeles, San Francisco, Amarillo, Kansas City, St. Louis, Columbus, Newark, and New York, quite impressive, compared to TWA's two Domiciles today. Unfortunately, we don't have the space to more than touch on Ted Hereford's life, and he probably will object to even this much. Perhaps it is appropriate then, to end this chronicle with some reminiscences from another renowned senior pilot, who also retired after a distinguished career with TWA, and who was also a close friend of Hereford's. I refer to Robert N. Buck, former system chief pilot, weather researcher, one time junior transcontinental speed record holder, and noted aviation writer, who joined TWA as a copilot on August 24, 1937 (8 months after this reporter was hired as a ticket agent in KC) and retired in 1974. He is working now on his 7th book, a memoir, and he says there is quite a bit in it about his flying with Hereford. Following are excerpts from information Bob Buck contributed to this article honoring retired Captain Edgar T. Hereford: "Ted Hereford was a superb pilot and flying with him was always fun, and he gave lots of left seat time, which most old timers didn't. I think a few hours warm-up in a simulator today, and he'd probably be right back in form. As a new copilot, I flew a lot with Ted, both on the West Coast out of San Fran, and later Kansas City. Flying with him, I always had the feeling I was with a master pilot and no matter what the weather or fortune dished out he could handle it." "He told me of landing a Northrop, a forced landing, and hitting a railroad track. Did damage to the plane, but not to him." (WAD: Asked about this, Ted added that he had five engine failures on the single-engine Northrop Alpha out of a total of ten on the whole airline in the early years of TWA. "I must have been jinxed," Ted claims.) None of the other emergencies caused more than superficial damage to the aircraft or him. Luckily, he never had to use his parachute! "He was of great benefit in shaping my airline flying ability". Buck continues. In those days copilots got very little flying. I flew with one old timer on and off over a six month period and he only let me land once. But Ted gave lots of flying, and it was always interesting, with bets on landing quality, touch down spots and such. He made flying a game of fun. All copilots benefited from his guidance, and unorthodox ways!
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"Ted never wore a captain's hat because he didn't want to lose any hair." (WAD: He was well known to a lot of pilots, and flight attendants, for his thick, wavy, blond hair.)."He also didn't like paper work. As we walked out to a DC-2 flight at Fresno, I reminded him that he had forgotten to sign the clearance." "What! That's your job! So most times after that I'd sign for him." "He was a wonderful person to know and fly with. I look back with great thanks to Ted for getting me off on the right path of the honorable profession we were all a part of, and for the creation of a friendship which has lasted through all the years." (WAD: Ted well remembers his old friend, Bob Buck, and said it was obvious from the beginning that he was a superior pilot and individual.) Another former TWA Captain of note, Floyd Hall, who left TWA in 1963, as Senior VicePresident and System General Manager to join Eastern Airlines as President and CEO, said that though he did not know Ted especially well, he remembers him well enough to say that he was a real gentleman. Ted Hereford certainly qualifies in every respect as a TWA pilot legend.
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TWA PILOTS SENIORITY LIST January 1, 1966 No. 1 2 3 4 5
Name
Page 1 Date Employed
10
Hereford, E. T. Hanson, R. G. Gove, O. M. Larson, R. M. Robey, C. E. Harlin, J. E. Olson, L. W. *Trimble, W. L. Kratovil, C. J. • McFerren, Phares
4-6-30 7-17-31 5-1-29 9-16-33 10-16-34 6-28-33 10-16-34 4-6-35 4-12-35 4-27-35
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Talbott, R. H. Grabill, W. F. Kruse, R. H. Smith, D. W. • Voigts, Busch Gaughen, T. J. Miller, C. O. Neumann, H. E. Noland, R. A. Piper, W. F.
4-27-35 4-26-35 4-28-35 6-27-35 7-27-35 4-27-35 6-1-36 6-1-36 6-1-36 6-1-36
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
• Woolsey, K. A. Billings, E. O. • Sanders, W. I. Dunahoo, R. A. LeClaire, J. B. • Kuhn, D. B. •*Southard, J. S. Buck, R. N. *Horstman, C. M. • Gorman, E. G.
6-1-36 10-16-36 10-17-36 11-1-36 11-1-36 12-15-36 12-15-36 8-24-37 9-4-37 9-5-37
31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40
Rae, Roger Don • Downing, R. C. Nelson, Arthur Officer, J. D. Irwin, K. J. Duvall, Geo. C. White, Bronson Polizzi, J. J. Johnson, G. E. Smith, L. J.
9-8-37 1-25-38 7-1-38 7-2-38 7-2-38 7-4-38 7-8-38 7-17-38 7-31-38 7-31-38
41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50
Kassing, M. H. Welch, Lawrence K. Carper, N. G. Hagins, J. C. •Lloyd, B. M. Parkison, A. M. Walker, J. M. Lundin, A. P. Austin, E. L. Hawes, S. G.
10-29-38 12-16-38 2-13-39 2-20-39 3-1-39 3-1-39 3-8-39 4-1-39 4-2-39 5-4-39
6 7 8 9
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by HANK GASTRICH 291 Jamacha Road Apt. 52 El Cajon, CA 92019-2386 Tel/Fax: 619-401-9969 e-mail: hankflew@aol.com School Last issue I included a small picture of the pool and the ocean view one gets from a room in the Las Rosas Hotel in Baja Norte California, about 5 miles north of Ensenada. I was down that way again this past Spring Break ... only it was a one-day, luncheon visit only. This issue I'll include a picture of my traveling companion and class mate, Tram Cao. Tram is a Vietnamese native and before having lunch at Las Rosas, we drove out to La Bufadora to see the "blow hole." Quite a fantastic show! The water spouts as high as 500 feet high and thoroughly soaks most of the onlookers. I wanted to have a "wet Tee-shirt" contest, as you can see, Tram had a good chance of winning - but, alas, fellas. Tram is engaged to a Walter Reed Hospital cardiologist and the "I do's" will be said in July. Tram is in my historical women's History 206 class (I call it Hysterical Women) and by the time this issue is in your hot little hands, not only will my spring semester be completed, but the summer session will be more than half over. At the present time, I am pondering on which avenues my educational endeavors will proceed, but I think there is a good chance I may go for a Bachelor's degree in Liberal Arts, which also means transfer to San Diego State. SDSU's football team is in sore need of a quarterback, which makes me, I wonder ... ah, naaaah!
TWA I see, with tear-filled eyes, that TWA no longer serves Rome. I won't even try to guess where else we once went, but go no more. Rome was always for me, one of the better layover spots. The Mediterraneo, Residence Palace and the Savoy. The Via Venato, where just watching the Italian cabbies solve (invent?) traffic patterns. Mary Lee and I stayed four days there in 1974, in a small hotel across from the Spanish steps was exciting - a hotel where Hemingway once hung out. After paying $50 nightly at the Meridien in Paris, this was a real pleasure at less than $10 considering foreign exchange et al. The place had a very small bar (but I found it). The bar tender was named Joseph, and I once took a picture of he and my spouse. A picture which I considered fantastic in that it probably was the only one of Mary and Joseph that existed!!!
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GRAPEVINE [cont'd]
BOY, DID HE GET A WRONG NUMBER! "Hi honey, it's Daddy. Is mommy near the phone?" "No Daddy. She's upstairs in the bedroom with Uncle Frank." After a brief pause, "But you haven't got an Uncle Frank, honey." "Yes I do, and he's upstairs in the bedroom with Mommy." "Okay. Then here's what I want you to do. Put down the phone, run upstairs and knock on the bedroom door and shout to Mommy and Uncle Frank that my car just pulled up outside the house." "Okay, daddy - wait for me." "Well! I did what you said, Daddy." "Fine . . . and what happened?" "Well, Mommy jumped out of the bed with no clothes on and ran around screaming, then she tripped over the rug and went out the front window and now she's all dead." "Oh my God! And what about Uncle Frank?" "He jumped out of bed with no clothes on too, and he was all scared and he jumped out the back window into the swimming pool, but he must have forgotten you took out all the water to clean it, so he hit the bottom of the pool and now he's dead too." "Swimming pool? We don't have a swimming pool . . . is this 555-7039?"
THINGS YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE KNOWN There are four cars and eleven light posts on a ten dollar bill. Money isn't made out of money - it's made out of cotton. A rat can last longer than a camel. A raisin dropped in a glass of champagne will bounce up and down. A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why! 315 entries in Webster's 1996 dictionary were misspelled. During the chariot scene in Ben Hur, a red car was seen in the distance. Most lipstick contains fish scales. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other - at the same ti me! Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before launch - passing wind damages the space suit (I thought it might change their orbit). Bats always turn left when exiting a cave. On average, 12 infants will be given to the wrong parents daily. Orcas kill sharks by torpedoing up into their bellies, causing the shark to explode. Donald Duck comics are banned in Finland - because he doesn't wear pants! The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000 AND ARE PROBABLY GLAD YOU DIDN'T!
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GRAPEVINE [cont'd]
REALLY BIG HEADLINES
COUNTRY-WESTERN SONG TITLES
MARCH PLANNED FOR NEXT AUGUST LINGERIE SHIPMENT HIJACKED THIEF GIVES POLICE THE SLIP QUEEN MARY HAVING BOTTOM SCRAPED PROSTITUTES APPEAL TO POPE LAWYERS GIVE POOR FREE LEGAL ADVICE ANTIQUE STRIPPER TO SHOW WARES AT STORE
HER TEETH WERE STAINED, BUT HER HEART WAS PURE HOW CAN I MISS YOU IF YOU WON'T GO AWAY? I KEEP FORGETTIN' I FORGOT ABOUT YOU I'LL MARRY YOU TOMORROW BUT LET'S HONEYMOON TONIGHT IF I HAD SHOT YOU WHEN I MET YOU I' D BE OUT BY NOW
DISORDER IN THE COURT WEBSTER DEFINES IT NOW Q: What gear where you in when the accident occurred? A: Gucci sweats and Raeboks. Q: What is your date of birth? A: July, 15th. Q: What year? A: Every year. Q: Did you blow your horn before the accident? A: Sure. I've been playing it for ten years even went to school for it, Q: When you stopped the defendant, were your red and blue lights flashing? A: They were. Q: And what did the defendant say when she got out of the car? A: She asked, "What disco am I at?" Q: The date of conception was on May 8th? A: Yes
ADULT - : A person who has stopped growing at both ends and is now growing in the middle. CANNIBAL- Someone who is fed up on people. COMMITTEE - a body that keeps minutes and wastes hours Gossip - a person who never tells a lie if the truth will do more damage. HANDKERCHIEF - cold storage. INFLATION - cutting money in half without damaging the paper. MYTH - a female moth. RAISIN - grape with a sunburn SECRET - something you tell one person at a time. YAWN - an honest opinion openly expressed. REMEMBER - It's always darkest before the dawn, and also the best time to steal your neighbor's newspaper. It's a small world - so - you gotta use your elbows a lot. Some days you are the bug - some days you are the windshield.
Q: And what were you doing at that time?
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GRAPEVINE [cont'd]
THEMES of BIBLICAL PEOPLE
DUMB LAWS (Really on the books)
Noah - "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head" Jezebel - "The Lady Is A Tramp" Daniel - "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" Jonah - "Got A Whale of a Tale" Moses - "There's A Place For Us" REMEMBER WHEN? "If cigarettes keep going up, I'm going to quit; a quarter a pack is ridiculous!" "Did you hear the Post Office is going to start charging a dime to mail a letter?" "They are even making electric typewriters now!" "If they think I'll pay 50 cents for a haircut, forget it! I'll have my wife learn to cut my hair." "No one can afford to be sick anymore - $35 a day in a hospital is too rich for my blood!" ENGLISH - THE SECOND LANGUAGE! A farm can produce produce. The dump was so full, it had to refuse refuse. The dove dove into the bushes. The soldier decided to desert in the desert. He could lead if he would get the lead out! HOW TO MAKE A MARRIAGE LAST
Sleep in separate beds - one in California, the other in California Go to a good restaurant twice a week - you go on Friday, her on Wednesday Always hold hands-keeps her from shopping Take her (him) somewhere where she/he can't find the way back!
FLORIDA: If an elephant is tied to a parking meter, the parking fee must be paid. It is illegal to sing in a public place if wearing a swim suit. It is considered an offense to shower naked. CALIFORNIA: Sunshine is guaranteed. Women may not drive while wearing a housecoat. No one is allowed to ride a bicycle in a swimming pool. It is illegal to spit except on baseball diamonds. RHODE ISLAND: Pipe smoking is not allowed after sunset. It is illegal to wear transparent clothing, You cannot sell toothpaste and a toothbrush to the same person on a Sunday! [ These are available on the net at http:www.dumblaws.com/ ] A NICER WAY TO SAY IT A few clowns short of a circus. A few fries short of a happy meal. The wheel's spinning, but the hamster's dead. All foam, no beer. Body by Fisher, Brains by Mattel. Warning: Objects are dumber than they appear. As smart as bait. He (she) doesn't get all the channels. Her (his) slinky's kinked. She's got a whole armful of ugly. The cheese slid off her (his) cracker
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GRAPEVINE [cont'd]
TEN THINGS TO REMEMBER 1.Smile, it's the second best thing you can do with your lips. 2.I took an IQ test and the results were negative 3.When there is a will . . . I want to be in it 4.It's lonely at the top, but you eat better 5.Don't drink and drive - you might hit a bump and spill your drink 6.Friends help you move. Real friends help you remove - bodies out of the trunk 7.Consciousness - the annoying time between naps 8.Ever stop to think - and forget to start again? 9.Be nice to your kids - they are the ones that pick out your nursing home.
KIDS ANSWERS QUESTIONS ON LOVE WHAT IS THE PROPER AGE TO MARRY? Once I'm done with kindergarten, I'm going to find me a wife. (Tom, 5) WHAT DO MOST PEOPLE DO ON A DATE? On the first date they just tell lies. That usually gets them interesting enough to go for a second date. (Mike, 10) WHEN IS IT OKAY TO KISS SOMEONE? If nobody sees me, I might be willing to try it with a handsome boy, but just for a few hours. (Kelly, 10) IS IT BETTER TO BE SINGLE OR MARRIED? It gives me a headache to think about that stuff. I'm just a kid. I don't need that kind of trouble. (Kenny, 7)
HEALTH - WHERE WOULD YOU BE WITHOUT IT? My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She would be 97 now but no one knows where she is. I joined a health club last year - cost 400 bucks. Haven't lots a pound. Apparently you have to show up. The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again. I like long walks - especially when people I don't like take them. If you are going to try cross country skiing, start with a small country. I have to exercise in the morning - before my brain finds out what I'm doing!
WHAT IS FALLING IN LOVE LIKE? Like an avalanche where you have to run for your life. (Roger, 9) MUST YOU BE GOOD LOOKING TO MARRY? It isn't always just how you look. Look at me. I'm handsome like anything and I haven't got anybody to marry me yet. (Gary, 7) OPINIONS ON LOVE. I'm not rushing into it. I'm finding fourth grade hard enough. (Marty, 8). HOW DO YOU MAKE SOMEONE FALL IN LOVE? Take a girl out to eat but be sure it's something she likes. French fries works for me. (Alonzo, 9) WHAT DO PEOPLE IN LOVE THINK ABOUT? The person is thinking, Yeah, I love him, but I hope he showers at least once a day. (Lori 6)
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GRAPEVINE [cont'd]
ENGINEERS DO IT BY THE NUMBERS The graduate with an Engineering degree asks, "How does it work?" The graduate with a Science degree asks, "Why does it work?" The graduate with an Accounting degree asks, "How much does it cost? The graduate with a Liberal Arts degree asks, "Do you want fries with that?"
REMEMBER WHAT'S HER NAME? The girl that asked me to write to ask the governor to take down the CATTLE CROSSING signs on Wildcat Canyon Road - so the cattle would cross somewhere else?
A lady at work was seen putting a credit card into her floppy drive and pulling it out just as quickly. When asked what she was doing, she said she was shopping on line and they asked for her credit card number. so she was using that ATM thingy!
You know who I mean. The one who, when I called the first time after I hadn't called in a while and when I said I had been incommunicado she said, "Oh. is
ELEPHANT JOKES Q. What does Tarzan say when he sees a herd of elephants wearing sunglasses? A. Nothing - he doesn't recognize them.
that in Baja?" SAYINGS TO LIVE BY
Q. How do you a Volkswagen? A. Two in front
four elephants into and two in back.
Q. How many giraffes can you get into a Volkswagen? A. None - the elephants are in there. MORE QUOTES ON DRINKING ! You can't be a neat country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least, you need a beer. Frank Zappa Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. Ben Franklin If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose. Jack Handy
Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk in front of me, for I may not follow. Do not walk beside me, either. Just get the hell out of my way and leave me alone! The journey of a thousand miles begins with a broken fan belt and a leaky tire. Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day. There are two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither works! Generally speaking, you aren't learning much when your mouth is moving.
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GRAPEVINE [cont'd] HUMOUR FEMALE CHAUVINISTS (AH HA!) When do you care for a man's company? When he owns it! Why are dumb blonde jokes so short? So men can remember them. What did God say after he made man? I can do better than that What did He say after he created woman? Ahhh! Practice does make perfect.
IS THIS YOUR STATE? A trooper pulls over a pick-up and says to the driver, "Got any ID?" and the driver answers, "'Bout what?" It has a $3million lottery - the winner gets $3 a year for a million years The governor's mansion burned down - but they saved the rest of the trailer park. FAMOUS QUOTES
What is one thing men in single's bar have in common? They're married. Why did Moses wander the desert for forty years? He was determined not to ask for directions. A woman was telling her friend, "It was I who made my husband a millionaire." "And what was he before you married him?" "A billionaire."
The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk, they're sober. William Butler Yeats Time is never wasted when you're wasted all the time. Catherine Zandonella Reality is an illusion that occurs due to lack of alcohol. Anonymous A woman drove me to drink and I never even had the decency to thank her. W.C.Fields
First guy (proudly): "My wife's an angel." 2nd guy: `"You're lucky, mine's still alive."
What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch? W.C.Fields
Woman 1: "Aren't you wearing your wedding ring on the wrong finger?" 2nd woman: "Yes I am. I married the wrong man."
I read about the evils of drinking - it made me give up reading! Henny Youngman
When a woman steals your husband, the best revenge is letting her keep him
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy. Tom Waits 24 hours a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? Stephen Wright.
REMEMBER: Sex is like air - it's not i mportant. (Unless you aren't getting any) Taxation with representation is no big deal either!. If at first you don't succeed, maybe you should think twice before trying skydiving
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GRAPEVINE (cont'd)
JACK PARKER
Hadlyme, CT
Dear Hank, Your story of going back to the Navy in 1948 reminded me of that period in my life. I was managing Perkiomin Valley Airport in Collegeville, PA in 1947. I was shall we say ... fed up. I sat down at my desk one morning and decided to call an EAL captain that I knew, about flying for Eastern. He told me Eastern was not hiring but he thought TWA was, so I called TWA. Three days later I was at LGA on interview. A week later I was on my way to MKC for school. So, you liked my piece about Ciampino! Just to refresh your memory of our phone call. I started the piece This was a night flight to Cairo" because it was a continuation of the format setting up the piece. It needs that intro. I'm enclosing three photos, two B&W and one color. The color will not copy well I suppose but use it if you can. These photos need credit CAPTAIN JACK PARKER AND MECHANIC, "GREASE PETRO " by MAGINATIONS; WEDGEWOOD MURPHEY; POB 73, Hadlyme, CT 06439, otherwise you can be sure I'll NEVER hear the end of it For the interest of pilots everywhere, the famous Macchi racing float planes of the 20's and 30's that raced in the famous Schneider Cup races are alive and well! They are not far from Rome They can be seen at Lake Bracciano in a naval base on the lake. The final entry for Italy went 420 mph! That was in 1934!!! I served in the Army in WWII, in India and Burma, the so called forgotten war. I was in an outfit called the 10th Combat Cargo Squadron sometimes called the "comical cargo" based in Dinjan, India. The Japs occupied all of Burma at the height of their success. My job, as the name implies, was to resupply our fighting ground troops. We sometimes landed close to the fighting and sometimes we dropped the stuff to them. It was a great mission. I loved it! After the battles of Imphal and Cohima the Japs were on the run. The job then became one of resupplying our gorillas behind the Jap lines. These were the 101 detachment of our OSS. I asked one of them if they got behind the Jap lines by parachute. He answered, no, they would get in a jeep and drive south! A parachute was far too dangerous. We flight crews must have been brainwashed into thinking parachutes were safe. There is a lesson in there somewhere! Once the Japs were tossed out of Burma I was put to the buildup of supplies in China. Getting ready for the assault on the Jap home islands. That was the famous "hump." It was a piece of cake. Thank goodness for the atomic bomb not only saved many allied lives it saved a few million Jap lives as well! I was halfway across the hump the night I received the news of surrender by radio. I opened a beer then and there. Incidentally, did you know that two cans of beer fir perfectly into the Army canteen pouch? That's about all of this anyone can stand, So Long Jack Parker
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U S ARMY PT-17 (ACCEPTED BY THE ARMY IN 1940
CAPTAIN JACK PARKER (TWA RETIRED) RETRUNING FROM RHINEBECK, NY 1947
Note"to Sec/Treas. Phil, okay to bill MAGINATIONS" $350 for advertising July TOPICS
PHOTO CREDITS: MAGINATIONS
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GRAPEVINE (cont 'd)
RAY LAHR
Malibu, CA
No, Ray Lahr is not a TARPAN, and he is not even a TWA retiree. But, he should have been, because he is the kind of guy I know TWA pilots to be. Ray is a retired UAL Captain, but because he erred once his life is no reason to be forever condemned. I met Ray, along with Bob Clough, a retired TWA radio operator and flight navigator last March 14 at the Miramar hotel in Santa Monica. Along with Vern Southard, a Cuyamaca College classmate. I had been in web communications with Bob and Ray for the past year and when I found out a little about them, I decided Tarpans would like to know them also. A couple of really "class" individuals. One of my favorite recollections is a layover I had at the Miramar Hotel when I was the copilot on a DC-4 flight captained by Howard Hall and Earl Fleet. Through most of the day, I listened to those two old timers talk, and simply could not hear enough of the stories they told. This visit with Bob Clough, who was the navigator on TWA flight 771 captained by Earl Fleet the flight that landed in Cut Bank, Montana, and with Ray Lahr, who invented (sic) our Jeppesen flight computer was much the same. RAY LAHR Ray, a graduate civil engineer, is a month younger than I am, and our careers pretty well parallel each others. Except that Ray, a naval carrier pilot as was I, once he started flying with United, remembered the "navigation boards" we would slide from beneath our instrument panels as we navigated. in 1955 Ray took a small, working model of the plastic "plotting side" to his chief pilot in Chicago where he was based, and one thing leading to another, the Jeppesen flight computer was born. I look at Ray's mathematical achievements in absolute awe. Having had more than a little difficulty understanding the complexities of Math 103 (Intermediate Algebra) and Math 160 (Statistics) at Cuyamaca College, and having difficulty with numbers in vertical lines, that Ray could conceive the idea of meaningfully putting these numbers in a circle as they are on the flight computer amazes me. Because of company - employee patent right agreements, Ray's reward for his invention was not as great as many might guess, only a company paid ten day vacation for he and his wife in Honolulu, but he must receive tremendous satisfaction every time he sees a pilot reaching for his "whiz wheel." We should all be as thankful to Ray for his contribution to aerial navigation as we are at the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. Without Ray's little whiz wheel, avigation would be like doing our income taxes - using Roman numerals! Thanks Ray! PAGE 38... TARPA TOPICS... JULY, 2000
RAY LAHR, HANK GASTRICH, VERN SOUTHARD, BOB CLOUGH
MODEL CR-3 FLIGHT COMPUTER
CAPTAIN RAY LAHR(UAL- RETIRED), NAVIGATOR BOB CLOUGH (TWA - RETIRED) PAGE 39... TARPA TOPICS...JULY, 2000
GRAPEVINE [cont'd]
A
MOST
HARROWING
FLIGHT TWA Constellation makes emergency landing in Cut Bank, Montana, passengers and crew OK! ------------------(Aug 28, 1958) A TWA Lockheed Constellation, Model 1649A, enroute to Los Angeles from London, England with 71 passengers and crew on board, landed safely in Cut Bank, Montana shortly after 11 o'clock P. M. (MDT) after experiencing a run away propeller on one of its 4 Curtiss Wright engines. Sixty one passengers and ten crew members safely evacuated the air craft, with one passenger suffering an ankle injury during the evacuation. One passenger sustained an ankle sprained when he exited the aircraft and leapt from the wing.
TWA Polar Flight 771 departed from Heathrow Airport in London at 1121Z and landed at Frobisher Bay, Baffin Island, Canada at 2025Z to refuel. Departing Frobisher B ay at 2115Z, the flight was uneventful until a point 115 m iles northeast of Cut Bank, when the No. 3 propeller ran away. After it was found the propeller could not be feathered, Great Falls ARTC Center was advised and the decision to land at Cut Bank was made. Flight 771 was vectored to the Cut Bank airport by Air Force Radar Station Sessie. After landing, the cabin crew, including the off-duty flight crew members started the evacuation as planned.
ROBERT F. CLOUGH, NAVIGATOR (1953-1960) Robert F. Clough was one of two navigators on board TWA 771 on that harrowing night in 1958. It was my pleasure to meet Bob This past March in Santa Monica, at the Miramar Hotel; once for many years familiar to TWA LAX layover crews. (If those walls could talk!). I very much enjoyed our meeting, as we resurrected those `yesterdays' when TWA. had navigators on every International flight. His career with TWA came to an end when TWA became the first major airline to be certified for Doppler and Loran navigation by pilots. But not Navigator Clough's career, In order, after leaving TWA, Bob flew (as navigator) with Irish International Airlines (1961-1965, for ten years (1965-1975) with United Airlines where he assisted in developing and implementing a training program to requalify personnel. After his stint with UAL, Bob became a navigator and crew scheduler with McCulloch International Air Lines. Bob accumulated more than 15,000 hours of flight time as a Navigator and an additional 7,000 hours as a flight radio operator. ---------------------------The entire crew of TWA Flight 771 Navigator Bob Clough Captain Earl Fleet Navigator Bill Towle RIP Richard Ludwig Purser Jose Barga F/O Paul Bergdahl Hostess Margaret Shilobod F/E Bill Sherwood Hostess Ethel Compton F/E John Fox
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GRAPEVINE (cont'd)
Andover NJ
CLIFTON BOSSARD
Cliff included the 1953 TWA hiring qualifications with his dues and I find it so interesting I am using it as a letter from Cliff - I think you all will agree! Cliff dates from March 1953 (senior old bugger) and I date from November so I found it especially apropos. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------TRAINING QUALIFICATION S-COPILOT Student co-pilots are trained by the TWA Flight Time: 800 Hours solo or First Pilot. training section in Kansas City, Missouri. 1000 hours total C.A.A. Instrument Rating or adequate time and Some of the subjects studied in ground school are Airline Procedures, Equipment, Civil Air experience for rating. Regulations, Radio Procedures, Navigation and C.A.A. Commercial Certificate of Meteorology. Competency. Radiotelephone Permit, Restricted or 3rd class TESTS Satisfactorily pass co-pilot tests requiring six to Age: 22-27 years inclusive (Temp 22-30) seven hours for completion. Height:5'8" to 6'2", inclusive Education: Two years college or equivalent. Pass TWA physical examination. SALARY-TRANSCONTINENTAL OPERATIONS (After second year the following rates increased by type equipment, weight, speed, night flying, mileage. 1st year ....... $350.00 2nd year ....... 400.00 3rd year ....... 461.82 4th year ....... 478.49 5th year....... 510.00 6th year thereafter ........570.00 SALARY-INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS 1st year .......$410.00 2nd year ....... 460.00 3rd year ....... 700.00 4th year ........ 715.00 5th year ........735.00 6th year........750.00 7th year........765.00 8th year thereafter ........785.00
DOMICILES Boston Chicago New York Newark
Kansas City Los Angeles San Francisco Detroit
Cairo OTHER INFORMATION Company Seniority as a pilot starts on the first day of employment. Full starting salary is paid from the first day of training. Pilots fly a maximum of 85 hours each month. TWA operates both twin and four engine equipment. Vision must be at least 20/20 without corrective lenses at time of employment. Each calendar year a pilot is given a vacation, the number of days of which are based upon the number of months worked the preceding year. Maximum vacation allowance for one year is 14 days. Pilots purchase their uniforms from approved clothiers. Student co-pilots are selected from available applicants on a competitive basis. Application may be made at TWA Employment Office: New York - TWA Hangar #4 La Guardia Field Los Angeles - L.A. Airport Kansas City - 10 Richards Road Chicago Midway Airport.
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GRAPEVINE (cont ' d)
Arcadia, CA
BETTY K JOHNSON (Mrs Warren H)
Dear Phil, I have been receiving the TARPA TOPICS for 13 years as Warren H Johnson's widow. It means a lot to keep up to date on the activities or to mourn the passing of old friends. Here is my contribution for this year. My sincere praise to all of you who give so generously of your time and expertise in producing the TOPICS. Sincerely, Betty JACK MATEER
Las Vegas, NV
Greetings Phil, Enclosed are my 2000 dues that was a fast 32 years!
and you can change that (A) to an (R) in front of my name
Best Regards, Ed's Note. The 2000 Directory shows you retired Jack, congratulations et al.
Jack Mateer
Moraga, CA
JACK DAHL Hi Phil, The "Eagle" has landed and taken off again! Jack Dahl DAVE WADSWORTH
Harwichport, MA
Hi Phil, This is one bill I don't mind paying. You all do such a fine job. The TARPA TOPICS is great! Best Regards
TONY GATTY Dear Phil, great job.
Vero Beach, fL
My sincerest congratulations to the entire staff of TARPA, who continuously do a Regards, A V Gatty San Mateo, CA
CLAUDE THOMAS
Dear Phil, Happy New Year! Sure do thank you and John Gratz and your staff at TARPA for all the great editions of the "TOPICS" Thanks for letting us subscribers enjoy the news from all our Claude Thomas friends. It keeps the TWA memories alive.
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GRAPEVINE (cont ' d)
SHIRLEY SHOALTS
(Mrs Allen)
Eagles Mere, PA
Dear Phil, The effort that all of you contribute to the TARPA TOPICS is a pleasure to read. Am enclosing a check for dues - this Was a request by A D Shoalts that I continue. Sincerely, Shirley Shoalts RONNIE HIGGINS (Mrs William G)
Alameda, CA
Dear Captain Belisle, As they say, "Double the Pleasure" so I am doubling my dues at this time for I receive more than double the pleasure" from reading the magazine and all about everyone. I'm so sorry I miss the outings, but, hopefully I'll make Seattle this year. There was mention of the 75th Anniversary of T.W.A. It seems that I read of any activity after the fact. Therefore, is it possible to have advance notice of happenings in either LAX or SFO. In addition to a 707, I would be most anxious to see a Connie. I had two years on it and Bill had over ten years. Bye for now and thanks for keeping up the good work. Sincerely, Ed's Note: Thanks a bundle Ronnie. You get to that Seattle shindig and put me No. 1 on your dance card. And here's a Connie for you to look at and remember the good times. DICK FERTAL Tucson, AZ Best wishes and Happy New Year & Thanks Phil, and all who make TARPA what it is. The magazine is just great. Dick Fertal Ed's Note: Thanks Dick - especially for the picture you enclosed. You haven't changed a bit of buddy.
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GRAPEVINE (cont ' d)
MANNY STIMMEL
Sun City Ctr, FL
I remember that trip Manny! If I recall correctly, we also visited Lakeside Airport where I once was the Assistant Chief Pilot - and where one week I made $35!
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WE GET LETTERS Mr. Phillip M. Belisle 3145 Geary Blvd Box 705 San Francisco CA. 94118 U.S.A.
Rome,March 1st, 2000
Dear Phil, to confirm my phone call to you this morning. I did not receive the July and November 1999 Tarpa Topics. Thank you so much for your kind offer to send them to me. Enclosed herewith will you please find USD 25.00 to cover for the year 2000 subsciption fee.
As an old Timer of T.W.A. overseas, I am so happy to receive the TARPA Topics which enables me to retain contact with the T.W.A. World. As you know,very unfortunately TWA last flight out of Rome was TW841 on January 10,2000. I had joined the company in 1949 as a flight disptach clerk and retired after the closure of the Rome Flight Dispatch in 1983. My last position held: Manager Area Flight Dispatch. These were wonderful years and gave me the unique experience to meet so many capable TWA friends around the world,particularly cockpit crews.
Keep up the good work and best wishes for T.W.A. as well.
(S) Werner Romanello 31 Viak Pasteur 00144 Rome,Italy Ph: 39-06-5920-438 PAGE 45... TARPA TOPICS...JULY, 2000
WE GET LETTERS JACK WEISS Spring Hill, KS Individual entities have specific days they celebrate throughout the year, I. e., blacks have Martin Luther King day, Hispanics Cinco de Maya, Italians Columbus Day, Iris St. Patricks Day and the U. S. natives have April 15th Day. Jack Thanx Jack. I heard something about of Christopher Columbus the other day, like he wasn't a real sharp dude. When he left Spain, he never knew where he was going; when he got there, he didn't know where he was; and, when he got back, he wasn't able to tell anyone where he had been! RAY BERTLES Yardley, PA Hank, I received the TOPICS yesterday and again read it from cover to cover before going to bed. The stories about my dear friends are great and various historical tales relating both to TWA and the different aircraft were excellent. Now that you are a master of the English language, I hope you will forgive any grammar errors. If you are at Oshkosh this summer for the EAA fly in, stop by the Airline Pilot's Headquarters tent and say hello. Keep up the good work, Ray Bertles GENE SCUMACHER Lincoln, MO Capt Phil Belisle, When I retired in 1985 I paid in advance to get to Eagle status without missing TARPA TOPICS. Every issue brings back memories of people I flew with. I have not made a decision since my last trip as Captain and was looking forward to dusting off my decision making apparatus, but you beat me to it. Here is my $30 for another year of a most excellent publication. E. J. (Gene) Schumacher
BEAR BECK Lake Quivira, KS Dear Hank, Thanks a lot for the ad in the last TOPICS about the Bearly Open. 73 current and former pilots showed up adding over $1000 for our ALS donation. Its been a quick 25 years, and we look to October 2000 for the 26th. Sincerely, Bear Beck Ed's Note: Thanx Bear - and look for an ad re the 2000 open in this issue. R DAVID PLATTNER Pittsfield, IL Hi Phil, long time, no see. Hope things going well for you. I'm doing fine since some heart problems. Lots of golf - not much flying! Dave Dave and Sue listed a new address: 619 E. Washington Pittsfield, IL 62363 217-285-4517 ORVILLE OLSON Overland Park, KS Phil, Thank you for all the hard work you are doing for TARPA. We all appreciate it, but seldom does someone tell you. It's a labor of love. I know - I was there (the Grapevine, 20 years ago) - I hope I can meet you - maybe next convention. Ole Flushing, NY CHUCK WHITE Dear Phil Thank you for the early notice. Chuck is very comfortable here. Everyone likes to hear Air Line Stories he tells - he tells only those that cause a laugh. The best from Ella and Chuck
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WE GET LETTERS JOHN TRICE Playa del Rey, CA Dear Phil, Here's my dues and please accept another $25 to help with mail or whatever. It's a great publication and I always read it front to back. Keep up the good work and have a happy X-mas and Y2K. Regards John Trice Ed's Note: Thanks a lot John; we have been running low on whatever. JAMES McARTHUR Plano,IL Phil, Thanks to all of you for the excellent work you are doing on our behalf. It is greatly appreciated. The extra dues money is to help defray mailing costs. Best of the holiday seasons to you and yours. Thank you, fraternally diaries B McArthur Henderson, NV LOUIS BARR Phil, Having attained the ripe old age of 80 (soon to be 81) I know my TARPA dues are #25. However, to give thanks for my longevity, I'm sending $30 for my Y2K dues. Keep up the good work. Louis Barr ex-LAX F/E JIM AYLWARD Winthrop, MA Dear Hank, My grandchildren are of the opinion that I am better looking than Bob Sherman, and if you're going to put someone on the cover of TARPA, grandpa should be there. I was going to forward testimonials but two are still struggling with diapers, and two have a couple of years to go before first grade. Nevertheless, the vote was six to zip - in my favor. Jim Aylward
JASPER SOLOMON 1000 Oaks, CA Dear Phil, As long as the ole Eagle can flip a feather, I consider it an honour to pay the regular members' dues. Happy 2000 Jasper Solomon DOROTHY CONAWAY Spring Hill, FL Dear Phil, My husband, Ray W. Conaway died on July 31, 1999 after suffering for many years with Emphysema and Lung disease. Roy was an Eagle for several years so I am sending you a check to cover the membership dues. I wish to continue receiving the TARPA TOPICS. We always looked forward to receiving each copy and reading about old friends. I worked for TWA at Washington National - ICD - from 1942 to 1945, and I find it so interesting to read about people I knew so very many years ago. Ray retired in November 1981. We were unable to attend the TARPA conventions because of Ray's illness, but I hope someday to get to one of them. Sincerely, Dorothy N Conaway
CARL JOHNSON Signal Mountain, TN Hi Hank, Do you remember when TARPA Eagles were as rare as the national bird? Now we are as numerous as Emus and just about as worthless. Still enjoying the great outdoors and thankful for good health at 80. Have a word pro and a computer, but if I use it you would be able to read it and so print it. This check should take care of my dues and keep a great magazine coming. Carl Johnson
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GRAPEVINE (cont ' d)
Vero Beach, FL
CAROLE LOWELL
My name is Carole Lowell and I have been married to Vern for almost 31 years. I am writing this because we just received the TARPA TOPICS and I read a lot of it to him. He suffered a stroke in August of 1997 and it affected his left side. No feeling but did relearn how to walk. Had his speech and brain (although some short term memory loss) and had his home with Physical therapy every day. Was doing all right and the following year he suffered back seizures and back in the hospital and rehab for long periods and back home and more therapy, and again this year suffered more seizures and in critical care. We thought it was all over for him. But again he rallied after being off the feeding tube for 6 days and seemed to be doing better for a short time but became very depressed and dependent on everyone. He has some lucid moments and realizes he has lost a lot and speaks well but constantly thinks he has to get to the airport to file his flight plan. So he lives a lot in the past. He is in a nursing home and I know that he would love to hear from some "ol buddies." If anyone would care to send him a card, his address is; Palm Garden of Vero Beach Room #347 1755 37th Street Vero Beach, FL 32960 I know Vern would be very appreciative (and so would I) to hear from some of you. Sincerely, Carole F Lowell P.S. This summer he was well enough to write another book on airline safety and it is at the publisher now. We think it might sell on the internet. I will let you know when we know something more. The title is, "An Explosive Matter" and is about TWA 800 and others and about exploding fuel tanks. Also a story about the on-going struggle within the FAA and the airline industry. He wrote a few letters to Jim Hall and always received replies. Ed's Note. I received this as an e-mail from Carole on March 29th. I copied it to my internet address book and am glad to let all Tarpans know of Vern's illness and about his soon to be available book.
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GRAPEVINE (cont'd)
Lincoln, MO
GENE SCHUMACHER Hank,
I don't know if this enclosed article is pertinent at your level of academia or not - anyway, congratulations on your academic prowess.
Ed's Note: Good to here from you Gino, old buddy. It's been a while and a half, hasn't it, and yes, your article is good enough (in fact, I may playjerise it for my next English assignment) and here it is - and quite timely. The New School Prayer Now I sit me down in school Where praying is against the rule For this great nation under God Finds mention of Him very odd
We're allowed to cuss and dress like freaks And pierce our noses, tongues and cheeks They've outlawed guns; but FIRST the Bible To quote the Good Book makes me liable
If Scripture now the class recites It violates the Bill of Rights And anytime my head I bow Becomes a federal matter now
We can elect a pregnant Senior Queen And the unwed daddy, our Senior King It's "inappropriate" to teach right from wrong We're taught such "judgments" do not belong
Our hair can be purple or orange or green That's no offense, it's the freedom scene The law is specific, the law is precise, Prayers spoken aloud are a serious vice.
We can get our condoms and birth controls, Study witchcraft, vampires and totem poles. But the Ten Commandments are not allowed, No Word of God must reach this crowd.
For praying in a public hall Might offend someone with no faith at all In silence alone we must meditate, God ' s name is prohibited by the State
It's scary here I must confess, When chaos reigns the school's a mess, So, Lord, this silent plea I make; Should I be shot, My soul please take. 1000 Oaks, CA
WES WILSON
Cash my check for year 2000. "It's good," thanks to retirement check. Not active in TARPA having too much fun riding and driving my horse and mule. Wes Wilson Thanks Wes - I have always wondered? Does a mule wear horse shoes?
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GRAPEVINE [cont'd]
Russell C. Hazelton 805 Fairfield Lake Drive Town & Country, MO 63017 Tel: (314) 469-3965 Tel/Fax: (314) 469-5445 e-mail: RussHazelton@compuserve.com
April 3, 2000 Captain Henry E. Gastrich Grapevine Editor 291 Jamacha Road, Apt 52 El Cajon CA 92019-2386
RE: Betty and A.T. Humbles - Fiftieth Anniversary Dear Hank: " This news clipping came across my desk via means of a "Woodchuck in North Carolina.
A.T. was well known in Company/ALPA Circles during his tenure at TWA. As a two year F/O, I attended a velvet tabletop grievance hearing about 1958 at 10 Richards Road.. As we set up for .our presentations, A.T. took a burp bag for his chew from his briefcase and set it at his feet. Dressed in a plaid suit with a six inch wide flowered tie, at the time the "Ivy League" cut was in vogue, he started with an opening statement, "as a country boy from the south, I'm not used to all of this finery", while poking at the velvet table covering. Bob Mueller scribbled a note and passed it around the table. The note simply said "This ain ' t the first time this country boy will probably beat the hell out of us. " And he did!
Russ Hazelton
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GRAPEVINE [cont'd]
Betty and A.T. Humbles celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary with a dinner party at River Forest Manor in Belhaven on Saturday night, February
5.
It
was
attended by their four sons with their families and some friends. Betty wore her original wedding dress which was
beautiful.
They were married on
February
1,
1950, in Glenshaw, Pa.,
which
was
Betty's home. A.T. is a native of Pitt County and flew for Trans World Airlines for 34 years. Betty was an Air Hostess also with TWA.
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GRAPEVINE (cont ' d)
CLIFF RAUB
Scottsdale, AZ
Dear Hank, The enclosed may be of interest to the members, so cut it up or down to fit. It is a bit much even in several installments but it is recent aviation activity by seniors. Except my guest book for the Aril 9th meeting of OX-5 Aviation Pioneers and Silver Wings fraternity. My guest had been teaching that Sunday morning nearly 4 hours to a student, He is a qualified flight instructor single and twin, age 20, that's young blood. I asked several of the pilots with plus 30,000 hours if they would loan him about 10,000. Arizona is the third youngest state and I am the same age, so that makes me young, I guess. Thanks for the great job on the TOPICS by all. Stay young - count down. Cliff Ed's Note: Thanks a zillion Cliff for the veritable treasure of stuff you included. I will start with your February Luncheon reports by the Secretary and Treasurer of your OX-5 organization. I hope also to get something about Bill Judd's feat for the newer retirees. I flew copilot for Bill when he was living in Bermuda and after we landed at Idlewild, Bill could get to Bermuda before I could get to Neptune, NJ. SECRETARY's REPORT by Michelle McCarthy Retired Captain Bill Judd, a 40-year veteran with TWA, was our guest speaker at Treulich's Fine Steak House on Sunday, February 13, 2000. Captain Judd was the second person, after Lindbergh, to fly solo in a single engine airplane from New York to Paris (see March 1995 GRAPEVINE). His flight wasn't for fame or glory, but rather for necessity. Bill needed to make frequent trips from Cairo to the Red Sea where he was making movies and the roads were only camel trails. So what better way to get around then in a Cessna 170, brand new from the factory in Wichita, Kansas. He showed us slides of the flight across the Northeastern United States and Southeastern Canada, over Newfoundland and the Atlantic Ocean. He then went on to really wow us with his videotape of his dives (scuba - not discos) in the Red Sea and his adventures in the air. We all know Captain Judd as his alter ego, Captain Midnight, and his underwater adventures. What a truly extraordinary life this man has lead.
Ed's Note: Captain Bill Judd was 60 years old on January 7, 1976, so you all know what that meant. Before qualifying as a co-pilot in March 1940, Bill participated in TWA's high-altitude research program involving the Northrop Gamma and DC-1. In 1937 he made a color film of the airline's coast to coast operation. Bill checked out as a Captain in 1942 and started flying international out of Rome in 1946 and later from Cairo. It was while based in Egypt Bill became interested in diving and under water photography in the Red Sea. He once landed his Cessna on the salt crust of Egypt's Quatarra Depression and rescued two lost desert travelers. When the Cairo domicile closed in 1956, Bill transferred to New York
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FEBRUARY LUNCHEON by Nelson Zierold, Treasurer Guest speaker Bill Judd, retired TWA Captain entertained us over a great lunch at Treulich's on February 13, 2000, with his stories and photographs of his flight in a Cessna 170 from the U. S. to Egypt and around the Red Sea in the-mid-1950's . Those enjoying his presentation were (Ed's Note: TWA'ers only) Chuck Hoesel, Paul Kelly, Cliff Raub, Harry Mokler and Larry DeCelles. Cliff asked several of our people to say a few words about where they started flying. Al Jones, a former U.S.Navy pilot told about his early flying as did Jane Nettleblad who soloed in 1939. Frances Walker was the first woman pilot in the state of Wyoming and Ray Conn talked about flying as a co-pilot for 22 years in the Clipper for Pan American
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CAPTAIN EUGENE JONES FEBRUARY 24, 1922 - MARCH 2, 2000 Eugene "Gene" Jones was born in Hawkeye, Iowa, the only son of Gilbert and Ella Boeckenheur Jones. Gene and his two sisters were reared in this small rural community where both parents served as postmaster. One summer day an uncle took young Gene to a county fair and he saw a small plane land in a field. The rest is history. After graduation from high school, Gene enlisted as apprentice seaman in the U.S. Navy. He served aboard the U.S.S. Yorktown in Torpedo Squadron Five and saw combat at Marshall Gilbert Islands, Salanaua, Lac New Guinea, Battle of the Coral Sea and Baffle of Midway. He was rewarded with flight training In December 1942 as Aviation Radioman 1st Class. Upon graduation from flight school, he was commissioned as Ensign and assigned to instructor flight training at N.A.S. Kingsville, Texas.
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In 1945, he was ordered to Naval School Photography at Pensacola, Fla., where upon completion he was assigned to the Manhattan Project. Gene served in the photo squadron for the Bikini atomic bomb tests in 1946 and in his words 'tad a front row seat for the first two A-bomb tests flying at 10,000 feet and 10 miles from detonation." Upon completion of the second test, he was assigned to take the film back to Washington, D.C. Gene requested separation from active duty in 1946 and went to work for Fairchild Aerial Surveys where he mapped areas in the Amazon Jungle in Peru as well as numerous sites in the United States. He also flew for a friend who in 1950 was building early warning stations in Alaska north of the Arctic Circle. Gene married Agnes Kovich from Galveston, Texas, in 1951. On Aug.21, 1953 they were blessed with a son, Blair, who was born in the Naval Hospital in Pensacola, Florida. Gene had been recalled to duty in the Navy during the Korean War and served 18 months as a coordinator in the air sea rescue squadron based in Pensacola. In 1951, Gene began his career as a pilot for Trans World Airlines where he spent 31 years before retiring on his 60th birthday in February 1982. Following his retirement, he and his wife, Agnes, moved from Mission Woods, Kan., where he had served 12 years as mayor, to Palm Springs, CA. Gene has been a featured speaker at the Palm Springs Air Museum on numerous occasions. Our son, Blair, resides in Marietta, Ga., with his wife, Ann.
by Agnes Jones
IN MEMORY OF CAPTAIN KEITH YATES AUGUST 14 1926 - FEBRUARY 4 2000
IN CAPTAIN
MEMORY OF WILLIAM CULLEN
OCTOBER 31 1934 - JANUARY 30 2000
IN
MEMORY
OF
CAPTAIN CARLETON TODD APRIL 26 1919 - JANUARY 11 2000
IN MEMORY OF JOHN RANKIN APRIL 25 1918 - MARCH 8 2000
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CAPTAIN
GEORGE
SEARLE
JANUARY 11 1920 - DECEMBER 6 1999 I feel honored to impart this information about the life of my best friend, George Searle. We lived the first eighteen years of our lives on the same Street in the town of Ottumwa, Iowa. We both left for college, joined the Navy to become Naval Aviators, and eventually we were employed by TWA. I am especially pleased that I was able to persuade him to apply with TWA. After his time in the Navy, he was presented with the Navy Cross for attacking a Japanese cruiser single-handed with his SBD dive bomber, scaring a direct hit and crippling the warship. He married Edna who left their farm to take a position in our local bank. They had three sweet girls—Susan, Karen, and Linda. Edna died a few years before George. Our families kept in touch these many years. First he was domiciled in KC where we also lived for thirty years. Later George was based at Newark where he flew domestic and overseas flights. While he lived in New Jersey, he would visit TWA offices to write and edit articles for our Skyliner. He also wrote articles for TARPA TOPICS up to three years before he died After retiring, he took a position flying a simulator for Sperry near Phoenix. He would fly canned trips testing to make sure that all was well. Throughout his career I would at times kid him about chasing the doIIar They lived in Sun City West until the time he contacted prostate cancer, then he moved to a condo very near the Mayo Clinic. The last time I saw George was in 1998 at the wedding of his daughter Linda. We sat at the table, and told stories about our lives up to the recent days, as he remembered those times best. I know all his friends will miss him, and miss seeing that grin that turned into a smile after he spoke. by Bob Dalin
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CAPTAIN H. EARL HEINRICH JUNE 28,1919 - SEPTEMBER 22,1999 Dad grew up in Shattuc, a Southern Illinois farming community. As a young man, Earl had a passion for flight. He saved his money from a grocery job to buy flying lessons and worked odd tasks at a local airport in return for flight time. He was married to Frances, his wife of 57 years, in 1942. During World War 11, he was a flight instructor for the Army Air Corps stationed in Sikeston, Missouri. He was hired by TWA November, 1944. He lived on Long Island, New York flying out of Kennedy and LaGuardia. Always a sportsman, Dad loved to boat and fish on the Great South Bay. He was qualified on all of the equipment TWA put into the sky and flew to every station the company had worldwide. This included flights to Vietnam and Greenland. At the required age of 60, he stopped flying as Captain 747 and returned as flight engineer for 3 more years. He took retirement in -983, after 39 years with Trans World. He and Frances lived in their house in Massapequa, New York for 42 years. In 1995, he left New York to return to his beloved farm in Shattuc, Illinois. He spent his time as a gentleman farmer, gardener, avid outdoorsman and friend to all. An expert trap shooter, he birthday by breaking 99 out of 100 targets in a registered shoot at his club. celebrated his Among the great views from his home on a hill above town, the steeple of the church where Mom and Dad were married can be seen. Earl died of a stroke after a short stay in the hospital. His passing was sudden and unexpected, a shock to family and friends. We had lost Mom, to a long battle with cancer, just 10 weeks earlier. Husband, Father, Grandfather, pilot. Earl flew West too soon and will be missed by everyone he knew. by Kenneth Heinrich IN
MEMORY
OF
CAPTAIN WILLIAM MILAM DECEMBER 20, 1925 - JANUARY 5, 2000
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WEST C.(JAKE) JACOBS JANUARY 1, 1922 - JANUARY 5, 2000 West C. Jacobs also know as "Jake" lost his four-year battle with cancer January 5, 2000 at 0714 hours. He joined the Navy in 1942 as a fighter pilot and was stationed in the Pacific Theater during WWII. During the Korean war he was assigned as a Cryptographer at Pearl harbor under Admiral Radford, handling mostly communications between the White House and General MacArthur. At wars end he returned to Navy flight status in San Diego. In 1952 West joined TWA as a first officer. He viewed the first 747 on display at O'Hare and remarked, "I will have achieved my goal if ever I could captain that beautiful bird". His last flight as captain was on a 747. He tried to make each of his flights a memorable one for his passengers as we as his crew, without them he wouldn't be doing what he loved. In 1967 he was chosen as "cap tain of the year" at O'Hare. After retirement in 1987 he put all of his vast energy into his home and family. His creativity and abilities were never ending. For fun he flew everything from Cessna's for his family of skydivers to a Bell helicopter he landed in the front yard one winter day. During the winter the neighborhood would wait in anticipation for Jake's annual snow slide; he would be out in the subzero weather until the wee hours of the morning moving, packing, and shaping the snow intothe perfect snow slide. As a chef Jake was legendary. He would make every meal a gourmet experience. To those who knew Jake, his knowledge, humor, and wit always kept you on your toes. His home and land provided the relaxation that lie enjoyed. He planted and nurtured hundred's of trees that now stand tall and silently speak of the love that he had for every living thing. Jake was able to share Christmas 1999 his 54th wedding anniversary, New Years Eve 2000 and his 78th birthday with his loving family, who were all with him over the holidays to see the new
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century. His pride in his family knew no bounds. He leaves his loving wife Verna four children, West III, Dave, Chris, Scott, three grandchildren and one great grand daughter. God Bless... We shall all miss you. by Verna Jacobs
JOHN "TEX" H. PYLE OCTOBER 8, 1915 - DECEMBER 31, 1999 John "TEX" H. Pyle of Desert Hills, AZ died at the age of 84 at John C. Lincoln hospital on December 31st. Tex was born on October 8, 1915 in Eagle Lake, TX and raised in Odem, TX. He had served in the U.S. Navy as a radioman, third class on the USS California from 1934 - 38. After that, he went to college for two years and came out in 1940 with flying and instructor's licenses. He went to work as a flight instructor in Jackson, TN training Air Corp cadets the in's and out's of taking to the air. In 1941, when Pearl Harbor was attacked, Tex join the Army Air Corp and continued as a flight instructor, this time preparing fellow Army pilots for action in Bennetsville, SC. After his military duties, Tex began his 31-year career with TWA and retired as a Captain in 1975. He owned and operated the Cave Creek Village Square for several years and built the Cave Creek Post Office at the Square. Tex was an active member of the American Legion, Post 34, Cave Creek and past Commander four times. He was also a past member of the Carefree Kiwanis and the Cave Creek Black Mountain Jaycees. After finally settling down in Carefree, AZ in the mid 60's. He had moved to Desert Hills 14 years ago with his wife Marion. They had just celebrated their twentieth wedding Anniversary on December 24th. Tex is survived by his wife Marion and four children; John, Eldin., Danny , and Sandra Klein; five step-children: Helen Hopler, Dawn Brakefield, Alice White, Robert Henderson, and Ward Henderson . He also leaves behind his sister Martha Alsop, 18 grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
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CAPTAIN THOMAS THOMAS MARCH 1, 1937 - DECEMBER 17, 1999 Tom was born in Herrin, Illinois where he attended schools. After graduating from Herrin High School, Tom attended the University of Michigan where he was a member of the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity and the basketball team. Tom served in the Navy as an F-8 Crusader pilot on the Carrier Forrestal. Tam loved the Navy but, the extended absences of sea duty, which were difficult for me and our two sons caused him to leave it. In 1965 Tom joined TWA, and before retiring in 1988, Tom flew almost every TWA plane from the Connie to the 741. The one exception being the MD-80. Tom always lived a healthy and vigorous life. He enjoyed tennis, weight lifting and duplicate bridge. He was a member of the TWA Trap Team and the National rifle Association. Tom truly engaged in almost every outdoor activity from biking to skiing. Before his problem was diagnosed, he had no symptoms and appeared to be the picture of health. Tom entered the hospital July 19, 1999 for surgery but, while he was mostly pain free, his cancer was not cured. Tom Thomas was well respected by his many friends and all that knew him. Tom and I were married for forty years. Our two sons, their families and I will always remember Tom with love. By Dorothy Thomas IN MEMOR Y OF CAPTAIN BRUCE RAWDING APRIL 29 1933 — FEBRUARY 5 2000
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CAPTAIN RICHARD ANDERSON JANUARY 8 1920 — FEBRUARY 10 2000
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"The Maui Connection" by Clyde Nixon
Epitaph "If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea... " March 2nd, 2000, the inaugural TWA Flight #3 with TARPA member W. D. VanWormer commanding made a direct connection that could be reflected on as a tribute to C. A. Lindbergh's contribution to aviation and tremendous social change for inhabitants of this earth. Much in the past has been written about `The Lone Eagle' or sometimes `Lucky Lindy'. When one explores his private life, luck had nothing to do with it. He was a man of vision and perfection. Charles Augustus Lindbergh was somewhat a `Lone Eagle'. He did soar like an eagle. He was a humble person who never wanted to be a hero. The above epitaph was Charles' personally selected quote for a headstone. His burial site is located in the Kipahulu area of East Maui 13 miles SE of the town of Hana. Why the Maui Connection? The farm boy from Minnesota became a world hero when the United States needed one. This man, who was the technical advisor for two major international airlines during their formative years, served on both boards of directors for TAT/TWA and PAA. A man whose vision was directly was responsible for the success of the Ford Trimotor and the DC-2/DC-3 series and other aircraft. He assisted in locating the Air Force Academy in Colorado. He was a Pulitzer Prize writer. He was a responsible family man, an environmentalist, a warrior, a pacifist, and he believed in a stronger power beyond earthly man. Much has been written in the past about this incredible dynamic individual. So what is the "Maui Connection" with the city of St. Louis? There have been two relatively new books published and I have located several others that give insight into Charles Lindbergh's private life. I would like to review these books, along with others, that may be unfamiliar to many of you. The most recent "Lindbergh" by A. Scott Berg, reveals much detail his life (628 pages). Interviews with his family portray much of the inner man, his strength, and his Iimitations in time and space. It is most appropriate to begin with the last few days of Charles Lindbergh's life. There is a tribute to his humble character during excerpts from the book, On The Hana Coast. I have permission to use the information (page 78) for inclusion here by the publisher, Carl Lindquist of Hana, Maui. It is quoted in the book that an often asked question of local Maui folks is, "Do you know where the Wright Brothers are buried?" Often the rangers at the Haleakala National Park nearby will simply point and say "a mile down the road to the left." It's just an open gate road that matches the rural cattle gates of Maui. Parts of it are paved now, mostly single lane, often muddy, that leads to the Ho'omau Congregational Church in Kipahulu which was the first Protestant Church built in 1857.
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"The Death of a Hero-August, 1974" by Beverly Creamer "It was hot that month and all along the road beside the cliffs was the sweet, heavy smell of rotting mangoes. The road is lined with giant mango trees, the descendents, some say, of one single mango seed sent from China more than a hundred years before. School children sent for it and, when it arrived, they carefully planted it in the soil of their schoolyard. Visitors who have never seen mangoes before pick them up gingerly, sniff the oozing sap and taste the stringy flesh. Then they tuck a few away inside their rented cars to savor later, in hotel rooms in Kaanapali or Kahului; far away from Hana. As the visitors to Hana that summer marveled at this lovely place, a drama was unfolding that would within a few years double, triple and quadruple their numbers. In a cottage above the sea, three miles outside of Hana Town, most of the immediate Lindbergh family had gathered for a final farewell. When his doctors said they could do nothing more to check the cancer that had begun growing in his lungs, Charles Lindbergh checked out of the New York hospital, and flew secretly to Maui, where he felt he could control the quality of his final days and of his death. Together for the last eight days of his life, he and his family tied up loose ends and planned his funeral to the smallest detail. He wanted to be buried barefoot and he wanted his friends to come in their work clothes. In the days that were left to him; Lindbergh took part in almost every activity, from his medical care to the design of his coffin. He smiled when he told John Hanchett, the Hana Ranch foreman who was his friend, that it should be wide enough for his broad shoulders. Daily Lindbergh discussed his weakening condition with his doctor, Milton Howell, the town's sole physician. Lindbergh designed his own grave – large enough for both Anne and himself – and sketched out its pipe drainage system and the way the rocks would be "wedged in" to form the stone sides. Through Hanchett, he supervised its construction, which was done by Hana cowboys, headed by Tevi Kahaleuahi. On Lindbergh's diagrams he even sketched the headstone. He was definite about what he wanted: a block of gray Vermont granite large enough not to tempt souvenir hunters. He chose two lines from his favorite Bible passage, Psalm 139, cut precisely one-quarter of an inch into the stone: deep enough to see, but shallow enough that the wind and rain could keep them washed clean. They read, "... if I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea... " On the Monday morning he died, August 26, 1974, it was Tevi who lifted Lindbergh's body into the coffin and who stood barefoot in the back of Babe Hanchett's pickup as it carried the rough hewn eucalyptus coffin from the cottage to the Ho'omau Congregational Church in Kipahulu.
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The procession was simple -a jeep, the doctor's car, a nurse, a policeman. So was the service. Milton Howell's wife, Roselle; his nurse, Sherry; and Helen Pahuwai, who had occasionally cooked and cleaned for the Lindberghs; filled the church with boughs of colorful bougainvillea, stalks of fragrant ginger, and blossoms of hibiscus and plumeria. Charles wanted nothing special, but Roselle knew that Anne would appreciate it. In the cool silence before the service began, Helen walked barefoot up to the wooden coffin, carrying flowers in her apron. One by one, she scattered them across its surface. Service station owner Henry Khula led the singing of Angel's Welcome, as Lindbergh was buried in the shade of a small Natal plum a few feet from the old Hawaiian graves where he had once cleared the underbrush." Note: He was buried in the afternoon of his morning passing. Unless embalmed the law specified one must be buried within eight hours. These were Charles Augustus Lindbergh's choices. The local folks in the Hana/Kipahulu area protected the privacy of C.A. and Ann Morrow. The Maui Connection begins with his associate and good friend Sam Pryor. Pryor's autobiography (with John Burnett) ' tells of their common interests and dedication to aviation in general; to life and love of man; creatures and plants of this planet earth. Pryor's life and association with PAA is an enlightening story in itself Sam Pryor was a private pilot, a high-level law enforcer, a politician. In 1940 he accepted a position as senior vice-president, working under the founding president of Pan American Airways. Juan T. Trippe. Charles Lindbergh had been a technical advisor to the PAA since 1929. 1 This friendship bond between these two men led to Sam Pryor selling (or giving) five acres of his land to Lindbergh that became their Maui home in 1968 (the house being built in the summer of 1969). "Demonstrating loyalty to his marriage, Lindbergh insisted naming their homes in honor of the shells in Gift from the Seas.5 Anne went along with these suggestions with the qualification that the name "Argonauta" be fixed to the Hawaii home. The "Argonauta" is a mother who leaves her shell and starts another life somewhere else. Anne Morrow Lindbergh's book Gift from the Sea is still being published and has been sold in many bookstores since 1955. (At this date, Anne Morrow is still living — born in 1906.) A short additional chapter was added after Charles' deaths It is a beautiful little book of reflections of life in her years as a mother, aviator, writer 5 and explorer in a technical and socially changing world. The Connection with the Spirit of St. Louis, the famous aircraft hanging in the Smithsonian Institution goes back to February 18, 1927. That was the date of a check in the amount of $15,000 to Harry Knight, trustee, for the purpose of a loan to build the Spirit of St. Louis. Sam Pryor's, Uncle Ed Pryor, was president of the National Bank of St. Louis. A letter (memo) to the Board of the National Bank of St. Louis and a copy of that check are shown in the appendix of Pryor's autobiography.
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Another relatively recent text (1996) is An American Hero by Barry Denenberg. ' Denenberg's book gives details of Lindbergh's early life and his history making flight from New York to Paris. It covers in great detail the kidnapping of Charles's and Anne's son; the trial of Hauptman (the kidnapper); with inclusive pictures. There are only sketches of later events of his life; his exile; trips to Germany (with several good photos); his isolationist period, WWII; Ford Motor Companies' production of the B-24; Pratt and Whitney's engines and time with U.S. combat squadrons in the Pacific. There is a synopsis report of the shooting down of a Japanese fighter in a head on engagement. These combat flights as a civilian were covered up for many years and notoriety resisted by C.A.L. and the military. This Denenberg text and two others cover the events of C.A.L. combat sorties. There were only rumors before that time. Retired General Joe Foss covers in detail C.A.L.'s time working and flying with his Marine Corps squadron in the South Pacific. I only have notes from reading Joe Foss' autobiography that I found in the Scottsdale, Arizona Central Library in 1998. Foss was still living well, residing in Scottsdale at that time. C.A.L. during WWII years, after resigning his Air Force commission, became a technical advisor for Ford Motor Company and Pratt and Whitney Engines Company, part of United Aircraft Corporation. While in a consulting position with P&W, word came back that the new F4U Corsair Fighter, built by Chance Vought, was having engine problems. Then Major Joe Foss, commanding officer of a Marine Corps fighter squadron in the South Pacific, asked for assistance in correcting these problems. The Corsair was considered a superior fighter in speed and maneuverability. It was designed with folding wings so it could be used on aircraft carriers. The Marine fighter squadrons were some of the first to receive these planes. Before their arrival the Marines were using the F4F Grumman in which then Major Joe Foss became a leading ace with 26 kills. In April 1944, C.A.L. left for the South Pacific arriving at Foss's squadron in a Naval officer's uniform without any insignia or rank. He told Foss that he would like to fly with his boys so he could evaluate the problems with airplane performances. He firmly asked to let no one outside the squadron know that he was there and that he was happy to fly tail end Charlie (last in the formation). He soon discovered the rough engine/lack of power was due to ignition problems. The ignition harness was shorting out in the hot humid weather. He also instructed the pilots on procedures to extend the range of their missions by using good cruise control. While in the South Pacific he also wanted to evaluate performance of the twin engine fighters versus single engine. The Lockheed Twin Engine P-38, Lightning, arrived in the South Pacific about the same time as the F4U Corsair. Both were superior fighter aircraft with the latest technology of advanced engines, fully controllable props, and the latest state of the art armament. It was reported by Scott Berg that C.A.L. "even built a special belly rack on a F4U Corsair for a large bomb (page 455). ' By the end of the second week, Lindbergh
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navigated his Corsair through tricky winds while carrying a two-thousand one-thousand pound bombs... the heaviest bomb load ever attached to an 13 th, 1944, he dropped that load on Wotje Island, completely wiping out the a Japanese gun position. In the end Lindbergh considered the F4U the best ' during the war."
pound bomb and two F4U. "On September Southern portion of Navy fighter built
On the 26 th of June, 1944 C.A.L. reported to Colonel Charles MacDonald, the Commander of the 475th Fighter Group, Fifth Air Force. Colonel MacDonald was not expecting him and did not recognize him so rather ignored this civilian that indicated he was interested in learning about combat operations with the P-38. The Colonel asked him "are you a pilot?" He then took another look at this 42-year-old man with a receding hairline. C.A.L. at that time only had eight hours flying time in the P-38 and was invited to go on a four-plane flight the next day. The flight was a 400-mile mission deep into Japanese territory, waving between puffs of Ack-Ack, successfully strafed an enemy barge. He instructed them on cruise control that greatly increased their range. After logging more than twenty-five missions and close to ninety hours of combat time, C.A.L.'s presence was requested from General Douglas MacArthur in Brisbane, Australia, To summarize his visit with General MacArthur and his high American and Allied Air Force Generals in the Southwest Pacific, C.A.L. convinced them of the potentially maximum range of their bomber and fighter aircraft with good cruise control. This information revised future war plans. Specifically, it led to fighter protection of bombers over Palau Island that was the doorstep to MacArthur's return to the Philippines. The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh – Another Dimension by T. Willard Hunter, also covers part of C.A.L.'s combat during his South Pacific days. 4 One interesting note here is that when packing to go to the South Pacific, luggage was very restricted. Only one book was allowed for each passenger. Charles chose the Bible, which accompanied him wherever he traveled. T.W. Hunter is a newspaper columnist, speaker and possesses degrees from Harvard Law School. His career has included higher education and the Christian Ministry serving colleges and universities in New Hampshire, Minnesota, California and Hawaii. In the past he has conducted Sunday services at the Ho ' omau Chapel. There always is a special Thanksgiving Day service held with Hawaiian neighbors bringing fruit and flowers... .a moving experience. (Sam Pryor and C.A.L. restored the chapel from a dilapidated condition.) Hunter's book arose out of conversations with Reeve Lindbergh, the youngest of Charles and Anne's six children and encouragement from former Governor of Minnesota, Elmer L. Anderson. Governor Anderson, in 1987, was president of the Charles A. Lindbergh Fund. These three people believed Minnesota's most famous son should be remembered not only for his aeronautical and scientific contributions, but for his philosophical legacy as well. I was able to meet with Hunter and have the book autographed along with Veteran of the Lindbergh Line. C.A.L.'s legacy is still with TWA. The "spirit of Charles A. Lindbergh" is
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definitely here on East Maui. Knowing him is knowing what he thought and how he lived. Anyone who flew the DC-2/DC-3 series knows what a great design it was – they are still flying. A super DC-3 flew in the Great Hawaiian Air Race this past March in the year 2000. The pilot was Russ Francis, former NFL player with the New England Patriots. When the Columbia Presbyterian Hospital doctors in New York City told C.A.L. there was nothing more science could do for his cancer illness, his reply was, "as it is no longer a medical problem, it is now a philosophical problem. I would sooner spend one day on Maui than thirty days in the hospital in New York." 4 Charles Augustus Lindbergh, holder of the Congressional Medal of Honor, lies at rest near his friends, Samuel and Mary Tay Pryor, in a churchyard gravesite on a cliff overlooking the great Pacific Ocean. On a clear day one can see the majestic mountains of Mouna Kea and Mouna Loa across the Alenuihaha Channel. East Maui receives the first light each new Hawaiian Day. Psalm 139, verses 9-10, "If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uppermost parts of the sea; even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me." This is the Maui Connection and the Epitaph for Charles Augustus Lindbergh. References 1. Berg, A. Scott, 1998. Lindbergh. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 2. Burnett, John, 1982. All God's Creatures. New York: Vantage Press, Inc. 3. Denenberg, Barry, 1996. An American Hero. New York: Scholastic, Inc. 4. Hunter, T. Willard, 1993. The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh: Another Dimension. Lanham, Maryland: Madison Books.Lindbergh, 5. Anne Morrow, 1975. Gift From The Sea. New York: Pantheon Books. 6. Sterling, Robert, 1983. Howard Hughes ' Airline. New York: St. Martens/Marek. 7. Youngblood, Ron, 1983. On The liana Coast. Honolulu, Hawaii: Emphasis International Ltd. and Carl Lindquist. Retired TWA Captain, C. Clyde Nixon, has lived on Maui since retiring in April 1982 at age sixty. In 1987 he purchased twelve plus acres of agriculture land near the Hana Maui Airport. He moved from Lahaina to Hana in the Spring of 1989 after building a cedar home the previous year. Since that time he has stayed busy developing a botanical garden. He enjoys the area for many of the same reasons of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh.. editor
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Charles Davis 1420 N. Jameson Lane Santa Barbara, CA 93108 805-969-0980
John P. Gratz 1646 Timberlake Manor Pkwy Chesterfield, MO 63017 Dear John, Nor is this the B-17 that was uniquely initiated into our group ("Ball" Turret). However, even though our crew only flew it twice, those two forays qualify the bird for honorable mention. Briefing (always disagreeable) was a shock because the string, cord, whatever, went off the map and the briefing officer had to verbally state the target. When he said, "Berlin" someone at the back with a Brooklyn accent flung back, "Oiving?". Not a titter. The gunners had already been briefed and were clustered under a wing, scowling. "This crate won't even get off the ground." The copilot said, "Great, then we can go back to the sack." I had seen lots of beat up, sad looking forts, but this was the worst. There were patches here and there and the nacelles were stained with oil, and was that something dripping? "Raunchy" sagged, looked tired. The Air Force lucked out. Undercast all the way and very few ME-109s so the airdromes must have been socked in. Lots of big black plumes floating by though. And lo, directly over the target, P-38s! Man, what an escort! The "Wolf" held together 9:20. Hmmm, not bad for a crate. Warnemunde was my last effort, a heavy water plant. The Nazis were getting close to perfecting an atomic bomb so it was pretty high on the essential list. "And you really lucked out weather-wise. Clear all the way so you'll be able to see your target." Another voice from the rear, "That works both ways." Going in our route was way north almost to Denmark and across the Baltic Sea. The infernal plant was right on the coast and a simple hundred and eighty degree turn and back home the same way seemed practical to me, out of range of fighters too. But whoa! The return leg went southwest and straight through
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northern Germany . "Why?" I was compelled to ask. The briefing officer seemed somewhat disconcerted. "Uh..you'll pick up lots of enemy fighters and maybe shoot a bunch of them down." My response to this was, "Oh." The trip back? Forget it. Mere thanks to the "Wolf" didn't seem quite enough so I cut loose with some poesy. (in memory) Behold! Surprise! Just feast your eyes on this, The Raunchy Wolf! It wasn't 'Nam, Korea skies or action in the Gulf, But '42, the Krauts did rue, the onslaught from this bird. Der Faderland got splattered, man, and Adolph got the word. I am not one to glorify machines that go to war, or wave a flag, recite or brag, at least I've not so far. But shucks, dear boy, she gave me joy, so what am I to say? And now's the time to end this rhyme with: HAVE A HAPPY, HAPPY DAY! Black Dog
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OUT OF EGYPT — 1956 By Bob Zimmerman I would like to add some background to the recent unattributed article on the Suez crisis of 1 956. In the spring of 1956 I bid reserve co-pilot at the Cairo domocile. Having never held a bid and as a reserve co-pilot at LAX it seemed like a step up financially. As you know new hires have always subsidized the airline, or in effect, paid for their "training"in the form of low monthly wages. A DC-3 co-pilot in 1951 started at $290.00/mo. Raised to $350.00/mo. in 1952 and in 1956 it had risen to the princely sum of $550.00/mo. Cairo overseas paid $1100.00/mo. If your wife worked you had a next to lower/middle class life. I forgot about the fringe benefits — very good, and all that free travel. The Cairo domocile was the last overseas flight crew domocile. The cabin crew was domociled in Paris and Bombay had one navigator, one pursor and one hostess. Cairo flew two trips to Colombo Ceylon per week, one Dharan shuttle per week and a one week tour of north Africa and Europe per week. Then, as now, the United States position in the middle east was equivalent to flying A/B707-331BAH with two engines out on one side; try balancing on a razor blade. The powerful US. Israel lobby was countered by the heavy capital investment and reliance on Arab oil. The conflict , as always was capital and politics mixed in with neolithic religeous conflict. John Foster Dulles under Eisenhower and Gamel Abdul Nasser were the head honchos in the action. John arranged for the Israelis to obtain F-86 jet fighters — Gamel said "where's mine?" John said "you don't get any" and Gamel mortgaged his cotton crop and bought migs from the Czecs. John said "for that I won't build your high dam" and Gamel said "so what — the Russians will build it and I'm cancelling the Suez canal 100 year treaty" (which had 30 years to run) France and England, the beneficiaries of the 1886 Suez canal pact were rightously indignant and massed a force on Cypress, they then sicked the Israelis on the Egyptians (or the Israelis, disturbed by the Suez seizure attacked — take your pick.) The Anglo French force intervened to "separate the warring parties" and protect the Suez canal. Gamel proceeded to sink a ship about every quarter of a mile (more or less) the length of the sea level Suez canal. I believe it was about three years before the canal was returned to service leading to a ship building boon of super tankers to travel around the African cape.
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After the canal seizure a dead calm descended over Cairo – The French and English evacuated their families, touristing came to a virtual halt and we had picnics at the pyramids without being bothered by outsiders. TWA took the U.S. State department line that all was well and resisted evacuating our dependents. They finally relented and we sent our families to Europe. After about 6 more weeks of calm TWA refused to further subsidize the evacuation of our families so most of us brought them back and a few sent them back to the States or left them in Europe. Our families were back with us about two weeks when the bombings started. I had dropped many 5001b. Bombs during WWII but never realized how noisy they were until on the receiving end. After about a week of bombings a truce was arranged to allow an American convoy of cars to take the desert road from Cairo to Alexandria where they were evacuated by the American navy, after a near combat situation between the British and American naval forces. I will always remember and admire the spirit of the Egyptians; during the bombings they did not run cringing into bomb shelters but ran into the streets cursing and shaking their fists at the alien attacking aircraft. I spent the summer of 1956 fighting off a near fatal attack of pneumonis – We lived in a suburb south of Cairo called "Maadi". Maadi was on the east bank of the Nile river across from Giza and the 4500 year old great pyramids. A block from our villa was a Jewish synagogue. Eisenhower came down on the side of the Arabs. Suddenly Americans were heros. The local police department sent a policeman every night to guard our home and tell passersby we were Americans. With hostilities in a precarious truce and the risk of an open convoy across the desert I opted to stay, under the political circumstances, where we were and did not leave. The war resumed. The only TWA personnel remaining were core TWA management, myself and family and Don Marvin a flight engineer who saw it the way I did and did not want to leave his race horses. During one flurry I was persuaded to leave Maadi (the Marconi radio station half a mile from us was a target;) We went to Gizera, an island in the Nile, to a luxury apartment occupied by TWA's district manager, shortly after sunset all hell broke into utter pandemonium – in the park next to the apartment house an anti-aircraft battery had moved in – it had opened fire on high altitude recon-bombers and became a target on its own. At dawn I packed my family back into my '48 buick and went back to Maadi; the
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radio station had been attacked but was missed and great new hazards were created in the 18 hole golf sand golf course belonging to the Maadi country club. A truce was called, calm prevailed and I was informed that all transportation in and out of Egypt was stopped. TWA with the American embassy arranged for an auto convoy from Alexandria, Egypt to Bengaazi, ,Libya and I was informed that if I did not join said convoy that my relationship with the TWA payroll would cease. This was a convincing argument so we packed up the buick, taking water , just essential clothes and drove to Alexandria where we stored the buick in a warehouse. I bought the buick from an Englishman to keep it from being confiscated and later sent American dollars to an English bank to pay for it; all this on a handshake. I had been befriended, while hospitalized with pneumonia, by a young Egyptian activist who had an American wife in Denver, Co. USA. I was aware that he needed me to try to get out of Egypt. I gave him his first alcoholic drink which he relished while mourning his betrayal of his mother and religious upbringing. We took him to Alexandria with us and during our short stay there he rented us a horsedrawn carriage and driver and we toured the silent streets noting particularly the bombed out remains of a christian church by christian bombs. A day later, in the early morning, we departed Alexandria, a convoy of about dozen cars donated by an oil company. We took the old military road through Al Alamein and Tobruck. Al Alamein was a somber sight — separate massive limestone makers — one each for the Italian, German and British men who had died there, thousands of them, a decade earlier. We stopped at an oil exploration rig for a meal of canned rations — a rest stop. It developed that my family and I had the only drinking water on the safari which we shared sparingly with those who came to us fearing that they were depriving my children. Late into the night we drove, through mine field warnings, over a narrow road that, at times, diverted around broken areas into the desert. At times I imagined camels and palm trees in our path. We got to a blacked out Benghazi around midnight, we were to have been quartered on a ship in the harbor. The ship refused to board us, fearing the activity or lights would invite attack. We all grouped in a small "rest house" that had two bedrooms — one of which was given to my family — my wife, my 11 and 9 year old sons and my two year old daughter. Early the next day a "super G connie" piloted by Gordie Granger, landed at the airstrip — small and just adequate to get us out of there. From Benghazi to Rome where TWA put us up at the Meditteraneo Hotel, a classic, in the center of Rome, built in the `30s under Benito Musselini.
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We were reunited with our fellow TWA employees and families. The children went wild on the streets of Rome – ice cream, candy and a nurturing kindness and care from the hotel employees and the citizens of Rome. After a week we were flown back to the U.S. to pick up our lives and job assignments – but that's another story. Postcript: Gamel kept the Suez canal, the Israeli s withdrew from the Sinai peninsula. Russia built the high dam which created an immense power source far beyond the needs of Egypt. The annual flooding stopped and irrigated land doubled which had to be artificially fertilized. The population of Egypt doubled. The Nile delta erodes and the once plentiful fisheries in the mediterranean at the mouth of the delta, withered away for lack of nutrients provided by the annual monsoon flooding. One spring Sunday morning in 1956, Bud Kuball, Lou Lovlette, Don Peters and myself bribed a guide to lead us in climbing the great pyramid of Cheops. The sandstone blocks forming the core of the ediface are roughly the size of a midsize sedan. A trail had been hacked over the millenia on one corner of the pyramid. We wrestled ourselves up, one block at a time to the top of the 500 foot structure and stood, winded, hung over from the Saturday night festivities and gazed out over the Nile Valley, back into 4500 years of time. Herodotus, in one of the documents salvaged from the destruction of the library of Alexandria in 379 AD, described the pyramids as "glistening like diamonds in the setting sun". They had been covered by lime stone sheathing, long ago stripped as an easy stone quarry. Those massive symbols of mans ingenuity are still there and should still be there when the high dam at Aswan has silted full, and overflowed. 05-15-2000
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November 1, 1932
VEMBRREVISED
November 1, 1930
ISSUED
OPERATING EMPLOYEES
For
BOOK OF RULES
TRANSCONTINENTAL & WESTERN AIR, INC.
Frye APPROVED: Jack Vice President In Charge of Operations
BY THE PROPER AUTHORITY.
SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS MAY BE ISSUED
INSTRUCTIONS.
SEDING ALL PREVIOUS RULES AND
EFFECTIVE NOVEMBER 1, 1932, SUPER-
& WESTERN AIR, INCORPORATED,
THE OPERATIONS OF TRANSCONTINENTAL
THE RULES HEREIN SET FORTH GOVERN
INTRODUCTION
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3. Employees must be conversant with and obey the rules and special instructions. If in doubt as to their meaning they must apply to the proper authority for an explanation.
2. Employees whose duties are in any way affected by the timetable must have a copy of the current timetable with them while on duty.
1. Employees whose duties are prescribed by these rules must provide themselves with a copy.
GENERAL RULES
6. Employees will be examined from time to time on the rules and special instructions.
5. To obtain promotion capacity must be shown for greater responsibility.
4. The Service demands the faithful, intelligent, and courteous discharge of duty.
3. To enter or remain in the service is an assurance of willingness to obey the rules
2. Obedience of the rules is essential to safety.
1. Safety Is of the first importance in the discharge of duty.
GENERAL NOTICEยง
Employees and others authorized to transact business at stations, or on or about airplanes must be courteous and businesslike.
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Employees must not let their financial affairs bring discredit upon the company.
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8. The use of Intoxicants by employees while on duty is prohibited. Their use or the frequenting of places where intoxicants are sold is sufficient cause for dismissal.
Accidents are to be reported to the proper officials by telegraph or telephone, and not by radio.
Employees must render every assistance in their power in carrying out the rules and special instructions, and must report to the proper official any violations thereof.
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Pilots, co-pilots, Field Managers, Division Superintendents and other employees when addressing each other in the conduct of business and in the presence of passengers and other outside persons should address each otter as Mr .----. This ruling is not meant to obstruct a friendly close contact, but we have been criticised by some of our patrons as being un-businesslike in this respect.
Employees must pass the required examinations.
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Lapse of pilots license subjects flying personnel concerned to immediate relief from duty.
Pilot and co-pilot will note on accept ing plans if tools and special equipment required are in their proper place. Whenever any of the above mentioned articles are missing , pilot or copilot will notify the Region Superintendent concerned in writing on completion of trip.
(a) All pilots handling mail will sear a pistol in plain sight. (b) Pilots will turn in their pistols to designated place for cleaning and repair on dates specified. (c) All automatic pistols will be carried with chamber empty. (d) Revolvers will be carried with -6 -
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Pilots and co-pilots are required by the Department of Commerce to keep an up to date log book.
Pilots and co-pilots receiving in structions from other than through the Region or Division Superintendent's office should answer the instruction direct , but should mail copies of their answers to their region superintendant.
Any employee assigned to a specific duty affecting the movement of planes shall have a telephone at his resi dence, it being his responsibility to keep the dispatcher or Field manger advised of his correct telephone number and address.
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22. All pilots and co-pilots will call Dispatcher or Field Manager by telephone one hour before scheduled departure time, and will report to Dispatcher or Field Manager, in person, thirty minutes prior to scheduled departure time.
21. Before airplane leaves hangar to load passengers at a terminal station prior to a departure, the co-pilot shall see that the airplane is stocked with all necessary supplies.
20. Pilot and co-pilot are to cooperate with the Field Manager in the servicing of the airplane.
19. The pilot shall be responsible for the interior and exterior appearance and condition of the plane during the time it is in his charge. He will call upon Field Manager and co-pilot, or other field employees, to perform such labor as may be required.
18. The pilot reports to and receives instructions from the Region or Division Superintendent, Dispatcher or designated officer.
17. All lost and found articles of merchandise or baggage should be reported to the Lost and Found Department at Kansas City.
hammer resting on empty chamber.
The co-pilot shall read and familiarize himself with all weather information and airplane movement orders given to to the pilot. The assignment of plane crews to flights will be made by the Region Superintendent concerned. Routine contact with the Press will be maintained by authorized representatives of the company in each city. Company statements will be released to the Press only through these authorized representatives. Other employees are not permitted to give out information concerning the company without specific authority from the publicity department. Although photographs of damaged planes are not desired in the public prints, bona-tide Press Photographers should be permitted to take pictures if they insist. Pilots and co-pilots will acquaint themselves with the necessary telephone
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All pilots will acquaint themselves with all customs, quarantine, end immigration regulations when entering or leaving the United States.
When any question arises which is not covered by instructions, pilot will communicate with the Division Superintendant concerned.
All pilots will familiarize themselves with the planes, engines and equipment used on their particular flights.
Parachutes will be handled by special instructions issued by the Division Superintendent concerned.
Pilots and co-pilots nameplates will be displayed at all times, during duty, in the proper place in the passenger cabin.
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Pilots are required to sign Form No. 163 at terminal and intermediate fields, and upon completion of flight to forward their copies to the division Superintendent.
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Pilots and co-pilots will be subject to emergency duty as outlined by special instructions.
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(a) When a plane makes a precaution ary landing and is held overni ght, passengers w ill pay their own expanses such as hotel bills, meals, etc. (b) In case of a precautionary landing being made at a point not served by any regular means of travel, transportation will be furnished between such locations and the nearest town, railroad, or bus depot.
safety of passengers and cargo and must not leave the plane unattended.
leased by the dispatcher or Field Manager after their return to home station.
If there should be an occasion to do so, co-pilot must remind pilot of the contents of plane orders.
Every order must be given in the same words to all employees addressed.
Orders once in effect continue so until fulfilled, suspended or annulled.
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Orders must be brief and clear in the prescribed form and without erasure, corrections, or interlineation.
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All airplanes must carry their proper markings to indicate their route, the same to be displayed at all points where airplanes stop to receive or discharge passengers.
Plane is not to leave any company station without clearance (Form 163) properly signed and authorized.
whenever an employee violates any order or instruction unintentionally and realizes his mistake, he should report same immediately to his Division Superintendent before it is brought to the Division Superintendent's attention by someone else, and thus he may avoid the possible penalty for this offense.
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numbers so that in case of emergency they will be able to make a station to station call, and when making call will reverse charges.
Movement reports in prescribed form shall be promptly reported to all stations on route affected.
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Where airplanes of opposing traffic directions meet at the same airport. at approximately the same time, the first airplane arriving shall take precedence over the other airplane, unless special orders have been issued by the Dispatcher to the contrary.
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Only normal takeoffs shall be made. On smooth runways, the tail may be brought up and the airplane held on the runway until the airspeed is ten to fifteen miles above the minimum flying speed. The airplane shall then be gently pulled off the ground and continued in a normal climb with the airspeed always at least fifteen miles above the minimum flying speed. On fields without
3. In every case the full length of a runway, or where there is no runway, the full length of the field shall be used in a takeoff.
2. After the loading of passengers and signal has been given for release of the airplane, the pilot will taxi the airplane to the runway to be used for Plane will not take off the takeoff. until proper signal is given on those fields where signals are operated. Before takeoff the pilot mill head the plane to view all incoming traffic and each motor will be given a full throttle test, also each switch will be tried. Failure of engines or other equipment to function properly makes it compulsary that the airplane shall be returned to the hangar for repair. (Section 10 of Aeronautics Bulletin 7-E shall be strictly complied with.)
station 1. Plane will arrive at passenger . prior to at a predetermined time scheduled departure time in accordance with instructions issued by the Division Superintendent concerned.
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10. Motors shall be carefully synchronized for cruising speed and maximum economy. The technical instructions issued limiting cruising rpm and describing the use of the mixture control shall be rigidly observed.
9. Airplanes shall not be banked in excess of 30 degrees and care shall be taken that all turns be perfect.
8. Under normal conditions, a minimum altitude of 500 feet shell be attained before commencing a turn.
7. Climbs to altitude shall be made very gradually. The full distance from the point of takeoff to the point where the maximum altitude is required should be used to gain that altitude.
6. Except in case of actual emergency, or where surrounding terrain demands, climbs shall not be made at full throttle. Under normal conditions of takeoff deacceleration of the motors shall begin when the airplane has reached an altitude of 500 feet.
5. The climb from takeoff shall be gradual with a constant airspeed of not less than fifteen mph above flying speed. Zooms and sharp or uneven climbs are strictly prohibited.
runways, where the surface is not hard and smooth, the airplane need not be held on the ground after flying speed has been attained.
Upon approac hing a landing point the airplane shall be brought down from altitude in a gradual power glide at 1200 rpm. Weather conditions permitting altitude shall not be lost at a rate in excess of 500 feet per minute.
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15. Brakes shall not be used immediately on landing to shorten the normal roll of the airplane. The airplane should be allowed to deaccelerate without the use of brakes until the speed has decreased to 20 mph. This procedure
14. Skids or slips snail not be made except in case of emergency landing or in landing crosswind when a slip or skid may be necessary to compensate for skids or slips are the drift. When necessary in effecting crosswind landings, they shall be made smoothly . Pilot shall not use the rudder sharply in the execution of a skid or slip, nor shall he fish-tail to kill his speed.
13. Steep banked spirals shall not be made except in case of emergency when such maneuver is absolutely necessary.
12. Before commencing a glide the pilot shall see that the mixture controls are closed, the motors shall be throttled gradually, and under no conditions other than in emergency, shall tee throttles be completely closed when approaching to a landing until the airplane is over the last cbstruction and within dead-stick gliding distance of the field.
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20. Airplanes must not be loaded in excess of the gross load allowed by the Department of Commerce. The pilot and Field Manager will be responsible for any overload.
19. At any time pilot who is flying a company plane causes any damage to property he should report it at once to the Divisior Superintendent.
18. Specific rules in addition to those issued by the Department of Commerce covering operation in, through, or over fog or clouds or under other conditions of restricted visibility will he issued by the Superintendent of each Division after approval of the Region Superintendent and the Vice President in Merge of Operations.
17. No flying with passengers shall be carried on by day when the visibility is less than one mile from the airplane except upon authority of the Division Superintendent.
16. No flying with passengers shall be carried on during the day at an altitude of less than 500 feet, or at night at an altitude of lose than 1000 feet, except in landing or taking off.
may be deviated from when necessary to prevent ground-looping on a crosswind landing or in actual emergency. Insofar as possible, multi-engine planes should be taxied through the use of outboard engines with the minimum use of brakes.
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25. Annulment of regular scheduled stop can be made on authority of the Division Superintendent when there
24. Orders addressed to Field Managers regarding movement of airplanes must be respected by pilots or other employees.
23. In case of an irregularity and plane movement is in question, and the Division Superintendent concerned cannot be located, a consultation should be held between the pilot, copilot and dispatcher (or field manager) and their combined opinion should be used in taking such action as thought In case of an extreme emergency best. use telephone, telegraph, or radio to obtain the necessary instructions.
22. In the event of failure of one motor on an airplane the safety of the passengers shall be the paramount consideration, and the pilot shall either land immediately or continue to the next station, as his best judgement may dictate. It is better that an airplane be brought to the ground, even though damage to it may result, than to continue flight under mechanical or weather conditions that might result in a crash.
21. If, in the opinion of the pilot, a noticed defect during flight will not impair the safety of the flight, he may continue to the next destined stop where the defect must be repaired before taking off for the next station.
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30. Every pilot and co-pilot must have in his possession a complete set of maps prescribed by the Department of Commerce
29. (a) Party assigned charge as pilot in charge will have full a uthority on board plane. (b) The co-pilot will be allowed to land plane only upon the discretion of the pilot in charge, who will be responsible for the lending made.
(a) When landing on a field designated in the time-table as a regular or flag stop. (b) When landing on any field in emergency. (c) To indicate by a prescribed number of flashes , certain information field. the
28. The lending lights on an airplane may be displayed between sundown and sunrise as follows:folws
27. Between one-half hour after sunset and one-half hour before sunrise, airplanes must display the lights on wings as prescribed by the Department of Commerce .
26. Field Managers may advise pilots to land on account of flying or field conditions but will only order them to land on authority of Division Superintendent.
are no passengers , mail or express to discharge or load, and when it is not necessary to add fuel to the airplane. Stations affected by the annulment of stops shall be promptly notified.
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37. Pilots and co-pilots must wear safety belts when landing and taking off, and at all times when actually flying plane.
36. Pilots flying at night along the lighted airway will remain sufficiently to the right to avoid collision with any aircraft coming from the opposites direction.
35. The flying of planes over water, except ampnibians and sea planes, will at no time be farther than one mile from shore.
34. Pilots and co-pilots must inform themselves as to the condition of all permanent and emergency fields within the prescribed course over which the airplanes will fly within their division. They must also observe and obey all airport rules.
33. Pilots and co-pilots will familiarize themselves and comply with all Department of Commerce rules and regulations, and the regulations of the various status in which they may be flying.
32. Pilots and cc-pilots will not fly aircraft not belonging to the company without complying with instructions from the Region Superintandent's office covering this procedure.
31. Each pilot and co-pilot w ill provide himself with a suitable flash light, in good condition, and must carry this flashlight on all flights.
and Region S uperintandent.
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44. Either pilot or co-pilot must be in the cockpit of the airplane when it is on
43. Pilot will be responsible that the copilot out is familiar with and carries out his duties while on the plane.
42. Pilots must see tha t (a) The rules regarding smoking on the airplanes are enforced, (b) The proper report is made regarding the condition of the airplane at the and :f each trip, and (c) Report any misconduct or neglect of duty.
41. Both the pilot and cc-pilot must be familiar with and obey the special rules and regulations governing an "Airport" permanently or temporarily used by this company.
40. Pilots will not land to receive or discharge passengers without the proper authority.
39. (a) Pilots will refuse passage to persona under the influence of - intoxicating liquor. (b) Whenever a passenger becomes intoxicated, unmanageable, or otherwise obnoxious to other passengers, pilot may land plane at first regular stop and put off passenger in question, or, if in his judgement such action is necessary he may land plane at suitable intermediate field to deplane passenger.
38. It will be the duty of the pilot to see that his plane is provided with a sufficient amount of rags to keep the windshield clean during flight.
GROUND RULES,
USE OF SIGNALS
PERSONNEL DEFINED
TIME TABLES
STANDARD TIME
RADIO
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