AOPA Pilot Magazine - July 2011 - 43

Say Again?
Test yourself with these aviation quiz questions
By AOPA Pilot staff See answers on page 44 Memorable mottos and marketing campaigns by mostly forgotten airlines: 1. What Golden State carrier offered school children $25 flights to Sacramento for field trips that included tours of the state legislature, governor’s mansion, and Sutter’s Fort? 2. What airline formerly owned by Howard Hughes flew yellow airplanes and called itself the “Top Banana in the West”? 3. What airline (subsequently purchased by Southwest Airlines) banned smoking long before federal regulations required it? 4. What DC–9 operator gave passengers in the Big Apple bags of tasty treats known as the “flying nosh”? 5. What airline (which subsequently merged with TWA) hired comedian George Carlin as a pitch man? 6. This airline made light of some passengers’ fear of flying by handing out “survival kits” that included a security blanket, rabbit’s foot, and a copy of the best-selling book The Power of Positive Thinking. 7. This airline’s jets were painted with smiles (“Catch Our Smile”) and the carrier called itself “The World’s Friendliest Airline.” 8. This airline billed itself as the “Route of Aristocrats.” 9. This airline served free champagne to adult passengers and called itself “The Champagne Airline.”

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friends. General aviation airplanes are involved, once again. The Shelby County Aviation Association, normally a group of weekend $100-hamburger-hunting pilots plus nonpilot customers of the Shelby County Airport—located south of Birmingham—sent 22 aircraft and 66 people shopping for the day in Gulf Shores last year. “The area only gets by through tourism,” said association president Andrew Ellis. “Some of us spent the entire weekend there.” They planned to mark the one-year anniversary of their flight with a repeat flight to Gulf Shores, a one- to two-hour flight, to underscore that the Gulf has recovered. Then the tornadoes hit Birmingham on April 27. On May 21, the fleet of aircraft from Alabaster, Georgia, the Birming-

ham suburb where Shelby County Airport is located, planned to visit Gulf Shores once again. This time it was to pick up toys for children in Birmingham who lost their homes. The pilots had T- shirts printed marking the recovery of the Gulf, and even though the purpose of the flight has changed, the shirts will still be worn. There were special shirts for the flight in 2010, too. The aviation association was formed at a time when the Shelby County Airport was threatened. It has become a source of information for local and county government officials who are contemplating change in the operation or status of the airport. Top AOPA officials have visited with the successful association in the past.
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