This from the Allied Pilots Association weekly news summary to its members: "Today there are nearly twice as many active pilots over age 60 (317) as there are below age 40 (182). The average AA pilot age is 50.5 years, with the average captain being 53 years old and the average first officer being 48 years old." That's what eight years of furloughs and no ...

The Allied Pilots Association, which represents pilots for American Airlines, said it supports the latest National Mediation Board's proposed rule changes. The proposal would allow a union to be formed if the union receives a majority vote of those ballots cast in a union election. Currently, if a worker does not vote at all, it is counted as a no-vote against unionization. ...

... repatriation of the recently released Allied prisoners of war. By the end of the conflict Rose was one of the very few pilots to survive having been operational on both the first and last days of the war. After his release from the RAF in ... . For four years from 1975 he was secretary of the Salmon and Trout Association. He was appointed MBE in 1954 and CMG in 1963. Jack Rose, ...

... the yellow rail bands and black-and-white stripes communicated their allied association, while the British flag was represented by the red and blue circle (interesting fact: RAF and American fighter planes during ... ditched the red part of the circle, as they could be mistaken for Japanese aircraft). The pilots put red tape over their guns to keep them from freezing, as seen ...