VOLUME 45 NUMBER 25 DECEMBER 6, 1982

TWA's 767 in Maiden Flight, LoS Angeles-Washington, D.C•

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TWA's first 767 flight in scheduled service was F890, neering, and, flying as first officer on the two-man training, were: Dee Caine, JFK; Lou D' Antuono, JFK; December 3, from Los Angeles to Washington's Dulles crew, Capt. J. C. McNeace, flight manager-St. Louis. Kathy Finn, ORD; Shawn McGee, ORD; Linda Spin­ International Airport. In the cockpit were Capt. Bill Cabin crew members on the 193-passenger aircraft, all ner, MCI; Connie Tokarski, LAX, and Richard Wa- Sonnemann, staff vice president-fli~t safety & engi- of whom had been involved in 767 service planning or ters, MCI. ·

Pan Am lost Hs third high-ranking execu­ Employees who take advantage of this Business tive since July when Stephen Wolf, senior Retirement offer will receive incentives which include v.p.-marketing and planning, left on De­ participation in any non-contract retire­ ·as Usual? cember 1 to become pre.sident of Contine-n­ Incentive ·ment plan update in 1983 and 1984, a lump tal. Marty Shugrue, senior v.p.-labor sum payment of 12 weeks' pay, plus pay for · relations, was named to take over his mar­ In an effort to reduce the impact of fur­ all earned, accrued and banked vacation, (Cont'd) , keting duties. Chairman Ed Acker assumes loughs this winter, TWA is offering one­ and other incentives covering life and med­ time early retirement incentives to. eligible An article in the November 29 issue of Wolf's planning role as well as Shugrue's ical i~surance, and travel privileges. agent, clerical and management employ­ Business Week observed that the precarious' labor relations function. Acker has quite a ees. Employees who accept the company's Information financial condition of several airlines "has load; in July he assumed the duties of presi­ offer would retire on January 1, 1983. Eligible employees are urged to call their prompted a fear of flying''~ that is, the dent when William Waltrip resigned to be­ Eligible employees are those age 55 and fear of being caught holding tickets on a come president of Purolator. Thomas regional personnel offices for information over whose age and service add up to 90. on their estimated monthly annuity. carrier that might go out of business. As a (to page 3) result, Pan Am "has devoted more man­ They qualify for unreduced r~tiree benefits and their monthly annuity will not be re­ agement attention to building public confi­ Response Line St. Louis Record duced from wh.at it would' have been had dence than has any other airline - with Jerry Cosl~y fields your questions St. Louis boarded 14,498 passengers they worked to age 62. Approximately 700 little to show for it ... [Chairman Ed Ack­ over toll-free (800) 221 -2842 {in on Sunday, November 28 - an all­ non-contract TWA employees fall into this er's] continual tub-thumping, which has New York, 370-1714). For answers, time single-station record. The hub's category. All have been notified by letter yet to be followed by the promised results, call (800) 221-2840 (in New York, previous mark of 11 ,898 was set on and must advise TWA of their acceptance is sounding hollow,'' says BW' s Reggi Ann 370-1713) . June 11. no later than December 15, 1982. Dubin. "Frequent strategic zigzags. raise further doubts about the company's fu­ ture." These reassurance efforts "don't always have-the calculated effect" when Pan Am asks union employees for further /:. : concessions. . ~-""' Ignore rumors that the airline is in trouble, r Pan Am chairman C. Edward Acker told <>" '"'""""";. employees over closed circuit television. "Don't give up hope," he said. "Hang in there, and a year from now I bet nobody will ask me, 'Are we going to make it?' " Acker stressed that plans for new financing hinge on the cooperation of employees in a labor..:cost reduction program. About 2,000 of Pan Am's 28,000 employees have. agreed to early retirement or vol1:1ntary fur- . Iough; the company plans to lay off an additional 3, 000. . Like a sQaring eagle·, over Washington's Cascade range. ------~ -==:======-=-==~-"------

minutes eastbound, 16 hours 59 minutes westbound. 1!1 another service improve­ Mystery Photo No ~ystery ment, TWA had announced its "Sky Cen­ Editor's Notes tury~' non-stop New York-Chicago afternoon service. TWA also, in October - - "We are all too prone sometimes to criti- 1936, inaugurated air freight service using cize treatment of non-revs, especially its old Ford Tri-motors with a payload ca­ overseas," comments Bill Dixon, a retired pacity of J,500 pounds. Dubbed "flying captain. "I have made relatively few trips box cars" the planes offered "midnight-to ­ on international since I retired," he says, · dawn'' service between New York and Chi­ "but they all have been marked by unusu­ cago with inter~ediate stops at· ally courteous handling. Philaaelphia, Pittsburgh, Columbus and "This y_ear, my wife and i made two Indianapolis. TWAcarried88,851 revenue trips, and I want to particularly commend passenger..s in 1936 (compared to Mr. Pete Maslatzides at Athens airport and 17,989,000in 1981). Ms. M. T. DeCarvalho at Lisbon airport, Meanwhile, D. W. "Tommy" Tomlin­ for friendly and courteous service that son was continuing his high altitude re­ surely could have been no better for a search in an unpressurized Northrop "Could this be the startup of DC-3 service at St. Louis?" suggested Seattle CSA paying passenger." Gamma powered by a Wright G Cyclone Fred Smith in answer to our mystery photo in the November 8 issue. Right you are, Capt. Dixon concludes that "The fair engine. The Gamma, called an "experi­ Fred. The date was August 5, 1937. John Piel of St. Louis recognized it from and concerned attention I have received as mental overweather laboratory", could fly personal experience. ''I'rri sure I was there, " he writes. "We then lived only a few a retired non-rev, both domestic and over­ up to 35 ;ooo feet. The Yeqr Book entry miles from the airport and anything of importance that took place, my brother and ~ seas, has been impressive and deeply ap­ noted that "high altitude flight offered would go." One clue, if you look closely is "Robertson Aircraft" on the hangar. preciated .. . I have suffered no bad · great potentialities for maintaining sched­ First in with the correct answer was Bert Fisher,·manager -operations support at 605. experiences anywhere and that- says a lot ules, smooth flight and safety in travel The ink was hardly dry when he dropped by the Skyliner office, pointed to the for the often very bus.y station employees.'' - through the air," and added that "TWA picture and said, "St. Louis." No ifs, ands or buts. Even then STL was a hub, and TWAers who served with the 44th Bomb officials disclosed plans for th~ develop­ Bert based his conclusion on the mileage to the spokes-points shown._ Squadron of the 40th Bomb Group on ment of great aircraft of 50-passenger ca­ Tinian during Wodd War II are asked to pacity and with wings 150 feet from tip to to receive substantial discounts off the 20814. Call toll free (800) 638-8073. contact J. L Bean ofKCAC. Mr. Bean's tip" (roughly the specifications of the regular tuition at her upcoming programs, A reader of Frequent Flyer takes the mag­ residence is 3500 Oakcrest Drive; Kansas Lockheed Constellation). The research _ to be held in New York this month. azine to task for some kind remarks re- · ·City, Missouri, 64151. His contact at work carried on by Tomlinson was "di­ Participants can sign up for a weekend cently about defunct Laker Airways. Save KCAC is 464-7122. rected toward the development of these session December 10-12, the Monday­ your tears, he says. Sir Freddie bought his Sid Norris, flight manager for 747 flight giant high altitude ships," noted ·the Year Fridayprogram, December 13-17, or both. DC-lOs with 8% money from the U.S. engineer training at JFK, has passed along Book. "These workshops give you a greater Export_-Import Bank, paid low wages, was the Transcontinental & Western Air (TWA) "You can improve yourself and have a awareness of yourself and other people," the darling of the CAB and Margaret entry from the 19.37 edition of the Aircraft good time doing it," says Jim Gandee, Jim says.· "I thought they would be espe­ Thatcher, got $10 million in support from Year Book. It makes interesting reading. manager-marketing budgets and controls, cially valuable for airline people who are the British govemmem: c. ..d defaulted on Big news was that TWA had cut the flying at workshops conducted by Jean Houston, constantly dealing with the public. The $36.0 million in debts, leaving ticket ho}d­ time on its coast-to-coast service (operated a behavioral psychologist: Jim has partici­ · programs aren't a bit dry," he adds. "Dr. ers and taxpayers of the U.S, and U.K. with 14-passenger DC-2 aircraft, equipped pated in several of Dr. Houston's work- Houston is definitely an entertainer and holding the bag. "It is the Pan Am and with sleeper seats)_to a mere 15 hours 23 . shops; he's arranged for TWA employees very interesting to listen to. You certainly TWA executives who have kept their air­ won't find yourself dozing off." The lines goin'g in the face of this kind of une­ programs, which are about 30 to 40% qual competition who deserve respect," he Aircraft Postcards for Holiday Gifts lecture and. the rest discussion groups said. Boston flight attendant.Wade Padgett "really .make you stop and think about spotted. the refutation in the November is­ things," Jim says. · sue. Jean Houston has done extensive re­ Robb Romano, crew schedule planner at . search for the U.S. government and has JFK, is again offering his hand-crafted 14k taught at Columbia University, the Univer­ gold TWA-747 charms/pendants. The half­ sity of California and the University of inch size is $33 including postage and in­ Oklahoma. surance, one-inch size, $63. It's a bit late Quest,_a not-for-profit educational orga­ for Christmas delivery, but Robb ~ill do

ruzation, is . sponsoring the December I his J?est . Send check or money order to workshop. For information contact Quest Robert R. Romano, P. 0. Box 723, Lin­ at 4933 Auburn Avenue, Bethesda, MD denhurst, New York, 11757.

ending, with the captain having the ob­ Book Review: vious intention of marrying· his co-pilot. Lockheed L-1 049G Super G Constellation is just one of24 TWA aircraft postcards in a package offered to TWA employees. Captain Schiff Inevitably there's the obnoxious passen­ ger who, having just survived a crash land­ Aviation World has· produced a set of 24 aro~nd the world. Ask for a catalog if you Pens Thriller· ing on an iceberg immediately announces color postcards of TWA aircraft, including are interested. Jon and Peter aren't getting "Flight 902 Is Down;" by Barry Schiff and Hal his intention to sue the airline. On second the Boeing 767, and is offering it to TWA rich selling postcards - their profits last Fishman. Published by St. Martin's Press. _thought. that isn't implausible at all. employees at a package price of $6.00 to year worked out to $1.00 a day - but they Publication date November 24, 1.982. Hard­ Anyway, it's a pretty good yam. cover price $13.95. . USA and Canada, $7 .OOtoothercountries, say that they are having alot of fun and . Captain . Schiff is editor-at-large for including first class or air mail postage. meeting some very interesting people. Los Angeles based TWA Captain Barry AOPA Pilot magazine. He has written more Shipment will be made immediately upon Schiff and television newscaster Hal Fish­ than 30 books and more than 400 magazine receipt of order and payment must be in TWA aircraft in the set are: Northrop man are back with further ·adventures of articles. "Flight 902 Is Down" is his United States dollars. Please use the order Alpha, Douglas DC-2, DC-3, DC-4, DC- Trans America Airlines. Last time the two second novel in collaboration with Mr. form provided. 9, Lockheed L--049, L-749A, L-1049, L- collaborated on a novel, they hijacked the Fishman, who is news anchorman for Aviation World is a sideline for TWA 1049G, L-1649A, L-1011-1, L-1011 -100, · papal plane and set it down in the Jorda­ KTLA-TV (channel 5) in Hollywood. flight attendant Jon Proctor, and Peter Convair 880, Martin 202A, 404, Boeing - nian desert. This time they shoot down· a Fishman is the recipient of Emmy, Pea­ Black, a charter airline pilot. In addition to SA-307 "Stratoliner", 707-331B, 707- commercial _airliner (right where it hurts, a bedy and Golden Mike awards. He has their own postcards they also offer a com­ 331CCargojet, 720B, 727-31, 727-231A, bottle.ofLafitte Rothschild 1945) and land flown his own aircraft to cover assign­ plete range of aircraft postcards from 747, 747SP, 767. it on an arctic ice floe. ments to the North and South Poles and What made "Vatican Target" a best­ Mount Everest, and like Barry Schiff, r------~--~----~------, seller in ·1979 ought to be the makings of a _ holds seyeral aviation speed records. I AVIATION WORLD . . 1 motion picture for "Flight 902." Both I .P.O. BOX 188 · l stories are as plausible as they are far­ I BETHEL, CT 06801 I fetched. I U.S.A. I There is one intriguing twist and tum of I Pl~ase send me __ sets of TWA aircraft postcards. I enclose a check in U.S.$ for I events after another. Suffice to say, with­ I $ . ($6 per set to USA and Canada, $7 to all other countries). r out revealing more here: the authors re­ Published for Employees by the solve things just in time to prevent the I Name I Public Affairs Department U.S.S.R: and the U.S .. A. from coming to 605 Third Avenue, New York 1 0158 -: Street Address : nuclear blows. P;;nted in U.S.A ·1 City I Pilot-of-the-Year award goe.s to 902's Dan Kemnitz, Editor Captain F.. J. Macleod for navigating his ice Anne Sa!Jnders, Associate EditQr State/C~try ______~pCode__ ~...:.. ___ berg to the coast of Greenland by means of L J engine thrust. The story has a happy

2 December 6, 1982 As Usual••• ? ·TWA Makes Strong Bid for a Second Govemment Engine Contract (from page one) Cody, the airline's senior v.p. and general counsel, also resigned recently. .· Having gotten through the summer, World Airways is bracing for a long hard winter. But its sa!es v.p., former.TWAer Randy Burton, says, -"I think we've got a fighting 1 _chance." The Teamsters union., represent­ ing .1 ,500 employees, .recently accepted . wage cuts to aid the cause. Buy ·a top-of-the-line Kodak instant <:am­ era· imd fly Eastern two-for-the-price-of­ one ·'is Eastern's answer to -a Delta promotion· with Polaroid,· which in tum was Delta's competitive response to. ·an ·Eastern tie-in with Chevrolet. Where ir . stops nobody knows.' · "The competitive environment that .ex­ ists in the industry . today not only pits airline against. airline, but is having a simi­ lar effect on our 43 pilot groups.'' - Henry Th~se binders reflect TWA's multi-departmental effort in bidding for an Air Force contract. Key personnel who participated in A. Duffy, newly-elected president of the this work are (from left): Rich Haddock, manager-contract services; Ray Stark, manager-power plant scheduling; Larry Morrison, aircraft sales support specialist (project c~ordinator); Bart Bartholomew, staff an.alyst-contract services; Art Forsythe, Air Line Pilots As~qciation (ALPA). . manager-engineering & component maintenance budget & controls; Jackie Thompson, technical accountant; Audrey Campbeii­ : While other airlines cut fares .and throats, Schanck, personnel representative; Wally Cowan, manager-purchasing, power plant; Pat Ross, word processing coordinator; pow comes FirstAir, offering "truly first John McCarthy, director-power plant quality assurance; Skull Gudmundsson, director-ground safety; Betty Shelton, secretary~ Class travel'' for $1,500 one-way between· · maintenance contracts; John Crnic, manager-aircraft & facilities maintenance processes; John Butler, staff analyst-engineering . New York and Los Angeles. Twenty pas- _ maintenance contracts; Gary Riedl, manager~customer support; Wylie Hunter, manager-inspection,· and Veri ·Cumberland, sengers will have .at their disposal a hair­ manager-maintenance contracts. dresser, · manicurist, copying rn'achine.s, stock ticker and telephones. And a·group of by Gloria Bobski Military Airplane Company (BMAC), the set up an internal working team to meet th~ St. Louis businessmen led by astronaut Gloria Bobski is senior accounting special­ prime contractor. As a subcontractor, TWA Air Force bid deadline of September 28, Eugene Ceman haven't given up on plans· ist-contract services at KCAC. modified the JT3D engines. BMAC re­ Representatives of TWA's production for Air 1, Inc. to fly all-first ciass at coach TWA has bid on its second major U.S. moved less efficient J57-59W engines planning, materials, management, safety, .prices. Another new company called ·government contract within a year - as from the KC-135s and repl,aced the tail engineering and component maintenance, Tradeways wants to start a co-op, in which prime contractor for maintenance' andre­ sections of the aircraft. The modifications personnel administration, and contract all customers would also be investors. pair of approximately 900 J57-59W en­ gave the aircraft added range, improved lift services departments put in some 1500 gines over a five-year period .. The J57 and increased fuel economy. manhours on this assignment. They pro­ .Unemployment iri the.airline industry has engines, s~milar to those on TWA's original duced an array of multiple copy informa­ reached 17%, according to a .survey of 20 Long-Range Forecast 707 "water wagon" fleet, power those \ tion, including exhibits describing tooling airlines by the Air Line Employees Associ- _ KC-135s that have not been upgraded to TWA's maintenance & engineering cen­ detail, maintenance procedures, diagrams ation. ALEA, wl).ich represents about JT3p status. The J57 contract would be ter forecasts completion of 176 JT3D en­ of the overhaul base, personnel informa­ 10,000 airline workers, said that in the past worth over $100 million in revenues to . gines by year's etid in connection with this tion, and the offer itself. year 54,000 jobs have disappeared. That TWA .if it is the successful bidder. contract, and expects to have additional This material demonstrates TWA's ex­ does .not include the recently announced A year ago the government awarded· business in 1983 and 1984. pertise., commitment and ·ability to effi­ cutback of 5,000 at Pan Am or actions TWA the JT3D engine 'rework portion of its TWA's board gave its approval last Au­ . ciently perform the government contract undertak~n by other carriers since Septem­ KC-135 (military tanker version of the g~st for TWA to make a bid as prime work. It is expected that the contract award ber 1. The study also showed. that 35% of 707) contract, in concert with the Boeing contractor for the J57-59W engine. TWA . will be announced in late January. 1those still working have accepted pay cuts a:nd four out of 10 a wage freeze. and thoughts," he says . pinned he could only reach th.e car' horn. Citing the "wretched conditions" of air­ Capt. Bob Buck . Evidently until the Whitworth's earnest port access in metropolitan areas, p·lus the When in Rome .•• se.arch, passing motorists did not hear his "filth and squalor" of public transporta­ TWA's takeover of its check-in function at In Close Call ·. S.O.S. tion, business writer Maxwell Newton pre­ Rome may be further delayed. Aeroporti di Retired Captain Bob Buck escaped setious Bob was·taken to Central Vermont Hos­ dicts that by 1990 the major competition for Roma, the agency now handling eassen­ injury recently when the pickup truck he pital, whe're he was judged in satisfactory airlines will be AT&T. "Transporting hu- · gers, is demanding approximately was driving on a rural Vermont road over­ condition. man beings for the purposes of communi­ $360,000 a year as compensation for 15 turned in a culvert. Buck was rescued by a cation must progressively give way to the government employees who would be ·Dlustrious Career search party after being pinned upside efficiency· of moving voices and images made redundant, plus other fees. down in the wreckage for 15 hours. Bob Buck is one ·of the most honored Captain Buck, who retired in 1974, had aviators in the history of TWA. At the age been on his way frorri his home in North of i6 he set a coast-to-coast speed record Fayston, Vermont to speak to a Civil Air that stooq until faster planes came along. · Patrol cadet group at Sugarbush-Warren ' Bob Buck rose to become chief pilot of TWA. the 'thirties and 'forties he pio­ all-port. He had planned to fly the~e from In Montpelier. When he did not return home .neered in weather research, deliberately by evening, Mrs. Buck phoned the C.A.P. flying into thunderstorms to see, and tell, officials at Sugarbush and learned he had what happens. He was later awarded the . Air Force Medal for his work. In 1963 he not come to their mee~ing. Although it was unlike Bob to fail an obligation, it had been received ALPA's Air Safety Award for his assumed that something else had come up. .contribution to all-weather flying. His book, "Weather Flying", won a Flight Rescuers Heard Horn Safety Foundation award, In 1972 he was C.A . ~ official Lome Whitworth con­ named TWA Captain of the Year. At the tacted Montpelier airport to initiate an air TARPA convention in Las Vegas this su~ ­ search at dawn. Meanwhile, however, he mer, he received the 1982.Award of Merit, and his wife Jane decided to retrace Bob's ..along with two fellow TWA pioneers,. .,route to Montpelier for any sign of an D.W. "Tommy" Tomlinson _and Harold accident. They had all but given up when Neumann. Whitworth noticed a broken guard rail. The break looked old, but he decided to check it Good Bad News! · out. As they slowed to a stop, Jane thought Pass-riders are advised to forget · she heard a car.hom . They scrambled down Paris-Tel Aviv travel for the duration the culvert to discover Bob's truck with Den.nis Robinson (center) returned home to Los Angeles from St. ·Louis on October 31 of the El AI shutdown. TWA has as a hero. Three days earJi~r, the trainee at the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Academy him pinned inside. With the help of neigh­ increased capacity, · and there's no bors nearby, they-succeeded in moving the had helped thwart a hijacking of Flight 72 a't Los Angeles. Thanking him. again on non-rev embargo as such, but the TWA's behalf- and wishing him an uneventful trip this time~ are Don·:wifdman, truck so that Bob could be pulled free. word is, "You ju.st don't have a Bob's injuries were limited to bruises, manager-passenger services at St. Loufs, and Wendy Wade, STL.based flight attend- . chance." ant who was a crew membe~ of Flight 72. · · but because of the position in which he was '· . December 6, 1982 3 21st-Roundup

Upsets in athletic competition· character­ ized the 21st annual TWA Seniors roundup at \Y'ickenburg, Arizona November 5-6-7. There were new champions in every event except golf, where perennial winner Roy Ferguson's 78led a record entry of 48 players. All agreed the new 18-holecham­ pionship course at Rancho de los Caba­ lleros is a tough one. Certainly it has its hazards. On the notorious 7th hole, one player who shall be nameless lost his last bali into the drink, resignedly walking a borrowed ball to the far side of the wa­ terhole. There was one claimed hole-in .. one ­ into a cactus. Runners-up to Roy Ferguson were George Hummel and Jack Crump. Hum­ mel won the Calloway, as he did in 1981, followed by Paul McNew and Harold Brown. Ferguson also won longest-drive honors. Although there was some confusion over the measurements, it is believed that Charlie Sharp came closest to the pin. In the ov.er-70 age bracket, Bill Townsend was first and Parky Parkinson second. The tennis trophy - a new event this year - was won by Jack Crump who de­ feated Ted Hereford. The skeet shoot trophy went to AI Jor­ dan. The putting contest, run by Jim Wulpi, who at 93 is the most senior of them all, also saw a new champion, John <;::orri-s. He held off defending champi~n Lloyd Berry by stroking six straight holes-in-one on the Rancho de los Caballeros boasts 18-hole championship. golf course. back nine, versus Lloyd's five. Long after the outcome of all these ·events was settled, the horseshoe competi­ tion continued. And when the dust had settled in the dusk, Charlie Sharp had out­ lasted Dick Trischler. The coveted Willie Miller Trophy for lazin' around was awarded by _contest chairman Ray Dunn to ~ Jim Shaunty. Ray called the decision the "most difficult of my entire career," in light of the fier~e competition. Featured speaker at this year's roundup was Neil Effman, senior vice president­ airline planning. His remarks, titled "The Enemy Is Us," (reprinted in the November 22 Skyliner), led to a lively Q&A session before Effman rushed off to catch a red -eye flight to Geneva to attend an lATA meet­ ing. In conclusion, roundup chairman Parky Parkinson announced that the ranch has been reserved for the 22nd annual roundup Tennis champ Jack Crump in action. John Corrls was best putte~;. Paul Detweiler kept putting scores. _ ~ovember4 - 5 - 6, 1983.

Frank Howell (left, see Oct. 25 Skyliner) and Bob Montgomery trade stories of long "Three musketeers." Captains Ed Betts, Jim Gilmore and Harry Willis (from left) all TWA careers. joined TWA thesameday- August6, 1945.

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Trailriders include guest speaker Neil Effman at right. Seniors v.p. AI Wollenberg (left) with president Bob McCormick ..

Chow hounds enjoy desert cookout. Most senior Senior Jim Wulpi with Capt. Hal Blackburn.

Don Logan (left) and Harry Braddock both have ~taste for colorful tee shirts. Harold Neumann gets ready to toss a horseshoe.

Dale Ecton wears a tan with his western­ Many ofthe over 100 Seniors who attended the 21st annual rounaup pose for their picture. The next reunion is scheduled for Nov. 4- style· shirt. 5-6, 1983.

5 lessons; bus transfer from/to Zurich airport and-ski slopes. Priced from $3.30 to $345 .Vets Attend Last Wing Ceremonies per person; double, depending on date. Travel Tips Choice of five ski weeks scheduled Janu- . ary through March. For details contact Ken . Hall; 350 N. Lantana Ave., Suite 528; by Harry Mickie .Camarillo, California 93010-1998. Phone Deals ·for Skiers . (805) 987-2661 . Skiing i~ Utah: Sport Rent, Inc.; in Salt Stowe, Vern,tont: The Stoweflake Resort . Lake ·city, offers all TWA employees a offers f~mr day/three night anCopenhagen; Amstel Hotel, except for a Christmas/New Year's black­ registration form, send business sized, at $69 per person double and includes Amsterdam; Keio Plaza, Tokyo; as well as out. Prices range from $210 to $445 for stamped, self-addres-sed envelope to accommodations with private bath for four hotels in Manila, Bangkok, .Hong Kong four or seven-nigh.t stays, including lodg­ Harold W. Mallet, director-interline sales, nights, five days, in the heart of Athens; and Pakistan; the Mark Hopkins in San ing and lift tickets. Travel from Denver on . · Aspen Airways, PO. Box ·91080, Los half-day city tour, and one-day cruise to Francisco; I-C in Rio de-Janeiro, and the Rocky Mountain is 75% space available. . Angeles, CA 90009. three islands. For information write to I-C in Quito, Ecuador. Inter-Continental Accommodations are first class hotels ·or Color'ado. Avon Center 'at Beaver Creek, . CITIAM Ltd., PO. Box 1789, Syntagma, has 86 hotels ·in 50 countries; most offer lodges with some . condominium space near Vail, offers a 20% discount to TWAers Athens 1~6, Greece. airline personnel a 50% discount year available in Steamboat during December, ·round on a space available basis. For and, during January, lift tickets for unlim- . Alamo Rent A Car: All Alamo locations January, la:te March and April. $100 de­ additional information or -reservations, ited skiing at both Vail and Beaver Creek nationwide offer discounted rates-to TWA posit required to confitm space; check, · contact any Inter-Continental sales office for only $17 a day. Avon Center is a brand­ employees renting cars for personal use. money order, MasterCard or VISA ac­ or any Pan Am reservations office. new resort c.ondominium offering a variety New rates for a two-door air conditioned cepted. For information and reservations of ski vacation packages. For details call Chevette with automatic transmission are Home Exchange: Capt. R. G. Bevins of contact Colorado Interline Tours, P 0. Box Keith Ribich at (303) 949-6202 or toll free $12 a day and $65 a week in Florida, $12 a Republic Airlines is starting ·a vacation 91, Aspen, C081612. Call303-925-9064, (800) 372-2607 •. day and $75 a week in Arizona, California, home exchange catalog service for airline 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. MST. Ski Snowbird/Sun Valley: Ski California Colorado; . Georgia and Nevada, ..through employees. The advantages to residence Ski the Alps: Alpine Ski Tours offers ski offers interline ski packages at Snowbird, April 30, 1983. TWA employees with exchange include saving vacation money packages in Austria and Switzerland .be­ Utah, starting at $60 per person for two advance reservations are entitled to a fur­ on basic living costs, often being able to ginning in January 1983. All locations· nights, $105 pp for four nights, and Sun ther discouint of $5 off their total rental exchc;mge automobiles and eliminating an­ offer downhill and cross-country skiing. Valley, Idaho starting ·at $112 per person charges now -through January 31, 1983 at other big expense of vacation travel, and For a brochure with full details write to for four nights, $168 pp for seven nights. all locations; Upgrades to a larger car may not leaving one's home unattended while Alpine Ski Tours, Box 545, Crystal Bay, For information write to Ski:' california, be made at ttie counter for an additional $3 away on vacation, according to Capt. NV 89402, or call (702) 831 -3344 between PO. Box _7:?42,-Boise, Idaho 83702. per day for any available car at the time of Bevins. Members of his Society of Home 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. PST. rental (except Cadillacs and nine- Exchangers will receive a directory with . passenger wagons). Employees must names, addresses and brief profiles of' Ski Austria. Los Angeles TWAers· have More-Travel Tips present airline ID at the counter to qualify members' homes and vacation needs. For put together an Austrian ski vacation for Athens: CITTAM Ltd. has long offered foi the rates. Rates not available during information write to: Capt. R. G . Bevins, employees, families and friends, accord - ~ airline employees substantial discounts on peak travel periods.-·. at all locations De­ Global Residence Exchange, PO. Box ing to Anita Welter of LAX reservations. tours .in Greece. Now CITTAM has put ­ cember 20 through January 2. Also in Flor­ 20315, Phoenix, AZ 85036. Features include 7-. nights at the Hotel together a bargain package for accommo- . ida from February 10 through April 30 and Hubertusklause in _Partanen; breakfast and · datio,ns in Athens, valid through March 14, China. Eight land tours of China will be in Denver from February 15 through ·dinner daily; 6-day skiing ticket; 5 days of 1983. Eligible are interliners, their fami- offered by Interline Representatives, Ltd. March 31. During peak periods, TWAers (IRL) in 1983 at prices rangjng from $1389 receive a 10% discount on regular rates for to $1969 per person, double or single. The a two-door economy car and a 15% dis­ lnterliners Flock to Boston Tea Party rate is all-inclusive from Hong Kong. IRL count for larger cars. Make bookings by is also negotiating for round tnp interline calling 800-327-9633 and requesting plan fares to Hong Kong from U.S. gateways. , "TI" In the meantime, early bookings are ad­ London/-Paris: Stay as long as you like at vised. For details contact Intefline Repre­ any of several centrally located hotels in sentatives, Ltd., 25 West 39th Street, New either city- (or both) as long as it's a York, NY 10018. Phone (212) 840-67.27. minimum of. three nights in one place. Rates are $19 per person, per night, dou­ Fair-Priced Furs ble, $38 single, for employee and spouse Discounts on ·furs: Harry I. Kushner-- traveling with employee. Program availa­ . Corp., 305 Seventh Avenue, New York, ble through March 31, 1983. Also availa- NY 10001, a ·leac!ing' New York furrier, . ble: a $39 Rail Sea Link ticket for travel offers TWAers reduced rates on furs and . ·between the two cities (nonnal value, $61 ). accessories. ''He makes custom designer For information contact Dial Travel, 1735 furs, but also specializes in reconditioning Eye St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20006 old furs," says flight attendant Judy Rold. (202) 223-649_2. "Unusable old furs or hand-me-downs Inter-Continental Hotels: Seventeen lux­ from Grandma can be used to make vests, . Some 300 airline employees, including niany, from. Europe, came to the Boston ury hotels around the world are offering hats, purses, belts, fur animals, etc. ·He's Interline Club's 9th annual Boston Tea Pafty, held in late summer.· The four-qay airline personnel a special 60% discount located. only four blocks from the New weekend included a harbor cruise and clambak~ on Cape Cod. Airlines, tour during December·1982 and January 1983, York Statler Hotel, which makes him·very agencies, caterers, and other companies, sponsored events and donated prizes. TWA on a· space available basis. Participating ·convenient for flight attendants on lay- · sponsored a wine & cheese party. Shown enjoying the get-together are .(from left) . · hotels are Hotel Prince de Galles and overs," Judy adds. For more information Kathy Donahue, Marie Houghton, Katie Carpenter (all from BOS), Denise Anderson ,, Meurice in Paris; Carlton Hotel, Cannes; and an appointment write to the above and Peggy Porretti (from JFK). two I-C hotels in London; Hotel address or call (212) 255-5140.

6 1 December 6, 1982. .1 ' wn Under' Odyssey by Jane McCabe ing to Mt. Cook in the snow-topped South­ em Alps, passing Geraldine, Fairlie and Jane McCabe, secretary in the public affairs department at MCI, is an associate member of Burke's passes and the blue, blue waters of the TWA Seniors. She participated in the Lakes Takapo and Pukaki. From tiny Mt. group's tour to Australia and N ewZealand this . Cook Airport some took a ski plane onto fall. the Tasman Glacier for what one later said was the "most fantastic flight ever." Talk about spectacular scenery! Talk about kangaroos, koalas and ·sheep! Talk about From Mt. Cook we traveled through farming country with thousands of sheep glaciers, tree ferns and tropical plants! It was all there for the "Down Under '82" (New Zealand has more sheep than people) group to experience as they visited Sydney, dotting the landscape' even encountering a Australia and both the North and South flock on the road. Islands of New Zealand. Our destination was Te Anau at the edge Headed by Lum Edwards, the group of of the Fiordland National Park, where the 44 left the mainland (LAX) on September Vacation Hotel afforded a lovely view of 24 via Continental Airlines. We arrived in mountains and lake. Sydney on the 26th after a -fuel stop at Panoramic View Honolulu and a qay lost crossing the Inter­ national Date Line. We left early in the morning for Milford Sydney, Australia's largest city and Sound, drivrng through magnificent .chief port, is beautifully situated surround­ mountain scenery and beech forests. Scen­ ing Port Jackson Inlet on the continent's ery at Milford was breathtaking and With 7 57 years of seniority on board, 44 members ofthe Seniors club recently traveled southeast coast. One of the highlights of weather perlect. We took a launch ride on on a 25-day tour to Australia .and New Zealand. From all accounts, the "Down Under our several days in Sydney was a tour of the .the sound. Some flew back toTe Anau in a '82" group is still excla,iming over the spectacular· scenery, hospitality and cuddly city's harbor with spectacular views of the Cessna 185, a highlight of their trip. koalas. A similar tour led by Lum Edwards will depart Los Angeles on January 7. Sorry, it's full. famed Opera House Complex, Fort Deni­ On to Queenstown on beautiful Lake son and the Harbour Bridge. We also· got Wakatipu, with visits to Arrowtown, a Pass, the roads were so narrow that at one Agrodome to see a display of sheep shear­ our first look at the kangaroo and koala quaint town unchanged from gold rush point the coach had to back up to allow ing and sheep dog trials, and a Maori dinner (they are marsupials and not related to days, and the Cattledrome, for a fascinat­ oncoming traffic to pass. followed by a performance of native sing­ bears) - two symbols of Australia. Being ing live cattle show - including milking We ovemighted at the Fox Glacier, then ing and dancing. From Rotorua it was north allowed to hold one of the young koalas by tour members Ella Larsen and Dean went on to Hokitika, and Shantytown, a to Auckland, our final stop in New brought out all the shutterbugs. : Phillips. restored gold mining town, Greymouth Zealand. From Sydney, it was on to New Zealand A free day in Queenstown allowed time and Nelson. The journey from Nelson to All good things must come to an end and - 1,343 miles east across the Tasman Sea, to visit the interesting shops, take ahydro ­ Picton, where we boarded the ferry for the our farewell dinner was at the Union Fish and roughly the size and shape of Califor­ foil trip on the lake, or the ski lift up the trip across Cook Strait to Wellington, at the Company, a delightful restaurant on the · nia. With only three million people New mountain for a panoramic view of the "Re­ southern tip of North Island, was one ofthe · harbor in Auckland. Australia and New Zealand is delightfully uncrowded. markables" range and Lake Wakatipu, or most scenic of a trip loaded with spectacu­ Zealand won the hearts of all of us - the After overnight at Auckland on the walk in the public gardens, ablaze with lar scenery. beauty of the two countries as well as the North Island, we boarded an Air New tulips, flowering trees and shrubs. Some of From Wellington, New Zealand's capi­ friendliness of the people made an indelible Zealand flight to Christchurch on the South us took the steamer to Cecil Peak sheep tal, we continued to Tongariro National impression. We covered many miles by jet, Island, with views of snow-capped moun­ station (ranch) for a demonstration of sheep Park with dramatic scenery .en route - coach, boat and small aircraft. In fact, Bill tains en route. An afternoon city tour con­ shearing and dogs working the sheep. magnificent seascapes and rugged hill Townsend, from Florida, calculated that he firmed that it was indeed spring in New The next day we were off early. From country. From there to Rotorua, center of would have traveled 28,211 miles by the Zealand. Lovely flowering tre.es and Queenstown, we passed the resort area of the thermal area, with steaming geysers _· time he returned home. Many happy mem­ shrubs caught our_ eye at every tum. -Lake Wanaka with a magnificent backdrop and boiling mudpools. We particularly en­ ories will remain with the "Down Under The next day found us on a coach travel- of Mt. Aspiring. Co~tinuing on to Haast joyed visits to a Maori village and to the '82" group for years· to come.

on as manager-interline sales for Heli-Air The Fauci Family's Doing Nicely Travelog Aids Monaco, the principality's scheduled car­ rier, after retiring from TWA. He also Language Camp started his · own tourism promotion busi­ Dieter Friedrich, former TWA sales man­ ness, "LeCentrelnfo-USA". Dieter main­ ager at Nice, now retired, will be available tains strong ties to the United States, not as a speaker at- TWA affairs across the unly through his TWA affiliation. His son ·United States through 1983. Dieter's pre­ is studying hotel and restaurant manage­ sentation, "My Great, Small World of ment in San Diego: Monaco," is part of a fund-raising effort For information and bookings, write to for the creation of a bilingual American­ ·Dieter Friedrich, executive vice president, Monagesque-French summer camp in New Monaco-USA Association, 14, Quai An­ England for high school students from both toine ler, MC Monte CarliD, Monaco. ' si-des ·of the Atlantic. Diet.er requests a $10 contribution from each member of the' Hospitals Venture audience. He had finalized plans for his Hilton International is going into a joint speaking program with Princess .Grace venture called Hilton-Qualicare Hospitals shortly before her recent death. Ltd. to develop and operate hospitals out­ Although he retired last year after 33 side the U.S. and U.K. Hilton International years with TWA, Dieter· is still actively will provide maintenance and catering promoting and selling the airline and is vice services. Other participants are Qualicare, presjdent of the TWA Seniors International Jnc., a hospital management firm head­ chapter,_ based in Paris. He was a co­ quartered in New Orleans, and Hospital founder and serves as executive vice presi­ Capital _Corp. Ltd., a London-based firm dent of the "Monaco-USA Association." which provides hospital management and Many cockpit and cabin crews with whom JFK -based flight eng·ineer Larry Fauci . Dieter Friedrich; s own life story·would . staffing in Britain. has flown over the years have met Larry's children on their travels with him, and have make an interesting subject for a talk. He's asked, "How're your kids doing?" They're doing nicely. This sumqier Larry M. now a French citizen but was born in (left) wGermany and fled the country as a teenager Bowling Tournament Island, South Carolina. He also won the Leatherneck magazine award for marksman­ during World War II, serving as a volunteer Los Angeles TWAers are. organizing ship and meritorious· promotion to Pfc. Since then_he's also won honor-man at with'the 3rd U.S. Army for three years. He an interline bowling tourney to be held graduation at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina and promotion to lance corporal. He joined TWA as a ticket agent at Paris in there Ma-y 13-14, 1983. Individuals hopes to enter officers training school next year. . 1948, working days and taking courses at and teams interested in competing Michelie represented New Jersey in the Miss U.S.A. Teen Pageant at Eufala, the Sorb~·nne evenings. In 1951, Dieter should contact: Alabama, placing third runner-up overall and second in the "most photogenic" opened TWA's offline sales office in Nice. Sue Rives Bob Roewert competition. _ He became a well-known personality TWA TWA Keith took second in the annual Lifeguard lronman contest at Myrtle Beach, South there, as a disc jockey with his own radio 7001 World Way West 350 World Way - Carolina. The requirements: a grueling one-mile swim in the surf, followed by a half­ show "Flying Records," and host of a TV Los Angeles Los Angeles mile paddle out and back on a surfboard, followed by a one-mile run. Keith is a program "Embarquement Immediat", CA 90009 CA 90009 ' student at Upsala College, New Jersey. both on Radio-TV Monte Carlo. (213) 646-5410. (213) 646'-5900 Never one to remain idle, Dieter signed

December 6, 1982 7 Trials, ~rrors ~ and Pleasure ~ of a Homebuilt ''As a senior in high school I would go 40 miles to Evansville, Indiana to watch the P-47 Thunderbolts roll off the assembly line," recalls Capt. Albert H. Gettings (JFK-1). "It was then that I vowed to fly one of those fighters some day," he says. First he had to learn to fly, so, as soon as he graduated from high school, Gettings joined the Navy' "because it was the only branch of the service that would accept air cadets fresh from high school." He flew F6F Hellcats off a carrier in the South Pacific during World War II. "-1didn't have the opportunity to fly the P-47 during my military career, as it was an Air Force plane," he explains. ·After the war "I wanted to buy a P-47 from war surplus but I just didn't have the money," Getting says. He joined TWA in September 1951, still hoping to own a P-47 one day, but the planes grew increasingly hard to find ahd - · the price went up_fast~r than his. salary. "Today a P-47 would run about $150,000 .:.._ if you could find one," Getting says. "Then War Aircraft Replicas came out Capt. A. H. Gettings fulfilled youthful dream with half-scale P-47 he ~uilt over eight year period." with a set of plans for a half-scale P- ~ 7 Thunderbolt, at a fraction of what a WWII­ many other Experimental Aircraft Associ­ the fifth to fly in the United States. through the 40 hours of FAA-mandated test vintage P-47 could cost," he says." "I ation members and the project began to Capt. Ge-ttings is now-about half-way time in his P-4 7. Once the aircraft h~s been jumped at the idea of building my own and take final shape in early 1982 - an certified, he plans to fly it to air shows "to ordered a s.et of plans, which arrived in· eight-year gestation period." Capt. Get­ The Vital Statistics: see if the construction or the finish of the February 1974. They called for composite tings constructed nearly the entire airplane plane will warrant its being picked as the Dimensions: 20' wing span, construction of wood, foam and fiberglass in half of his two-car garage. '.'The only winner that I think it is." 17'fusetage. to withstand plus or minus 60s. After a time I needed the whole garage was when I For the benefit of others who may be Empty weight: 741 Ibs. Gross month of studying the plans, I rolled up my put the wings on," he says. _ tempted to build their own airplanes, Capt. weight: 1100 Ibs. sleeves and nervously began." Finally, in July 1982, the P-4 7 was "99 Stall speed: 78 mph': Cruise at Gettings has passed along some words of There was "much frustration and many and 44/100% complete'' and went up for 70%: 135 mph. wisdom. "My advice to anyone who thinks trials and errors but it was a pleasure, more the first time, with Capt. Gettings at the Max speed: 200 mph. he wants to take on a homebuilt is: Defin­ than work," he says. "After about 1500 I controls. "The airplane flew flawlessly Fuel capacity: 15 gallons. Fuel con- itely decide on the one plane you would like stopped keeping track of how many hours I with no bad flight characteristics," he says sumption:. 5/6 hr. · to build, make sure you want to do it was spending on · this project. It was a proudly. "It's a pleasure to fly and as Engine: Continental 0-200 (1 00 hp) yourself, and, last but not least, have the terrific w~y to meet new people and make . responsive on· all central aXles as a Pitts from Cessna 150. blessing ofyour wife. Once you have that, many lasting friends. I got a lot of help from bi-plane." Gettings' half-scale P-47 is only . then, begin with Step 1 of the plans.

by Cathy Baker with a bean bag or lassoing the " bull". acing Tests Crew's Skills Cathy Baker is a St. Louis-based flight at­ The second race was a horse and balloon tendant who lives in Denver. She and her hus­ relay. Two balloons, designated as a team, band, Danny Stam, are avid hot air balloonists. took off together and tried to pilot their My husband Danny anli I had been crewing crafts as close to each other as possible. hot air balloon events in friends' balloons . Half an hour after take off the third member for six years before we finally bought our of the team, on horseback, was released own balloon 18 months ago. Since then we from a bam. His job was to find his team have competed in many balloon races with balloonists, ride to them, retrieve balloon the "Dutchman of Denver". The word I. D. bags, and hightail it back to the bam. "race" is misleading when applied to hot First horseman in was the winner. Our air balloons, because balloon competitions horseman actually forded a fiver to reach are actually designed to test skill and preci­ us. sion in using.air currents and maneuvering Every Flight Is Unique the balloons. Because winds are so _unpre­ dictable, no flight can be totally planned There are many such events and every before departure. You always have to be flight is a unique experience. We've had ready f.or the unexpected. · ·some exciting moments. Like the time we In the Steamboat Springs, Colorado·bal­ landed on the wrong side of a mountain_ loon festival last summer we competed in Our chase crew was lost and we· had to two events. The first was the ''Hare and the carry 700 pounds of equipment out of the Hound''. Balloonists could earn up to 200 , trees. Or the time we won the prize for

1 points by hitting a 12-foot alumimim foil landing ·the balloon at exactly the takeoff "X" from the air with bean bags - while point after-a tV,.:o-hour flight - not an easy avoiding telephone wires' towers' power task. - lines, cows: trees, and other natural obsta­ We don't feel the sport is dangerous, cles. Extra points were acquired if the pilot . because of the training involved and the could lasso a sawhorse rigged with bull superior equipment used today. Our fellow Crew members of hot air balloon "Dutchman of Denver" for a recent balloon horns and situated near the X. · balloonists agree with us that safe~y is the competition in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, were (from left): Walt Koftinow of There were three such targets set by a most important objective and winping any Steamboat Springs; Renee Farney, STL-based flight atteijdant; Judy Bettridge hare balloon, which took off 10 minutes race is only secondary. But we always give (sitting in basket), STL-based F/A; Danny Starn (standing in basket), balloon captain ahead of the hound balloons. The judge · the race our best shot. After the competi­ and husband of author Cathy Baker; Cathy Baker, STL-based F/ A; Nancy Lawing stationed at each target scored contestants tion, the champagne flows and the comra­ and Hank Woodriff, both JFK-1 flight attendants. · on how close they came to hitting the target derie among the balloonists is wonderful.