Originally Posted by
Albaman
I couldn't help but smile when I read this post. When I first started plane spotting at Glasgow in the 1970s, the bloke Skipness 1F referred to always seemed to in the terminal and if you asked him about an aircraft registration he couldn't help but , no doubt, could have told you the number of passengers who disembarked from flight 123 from airport " X".
One day , one of my companions saw him coming out of a bank so after that we always referred to him as " the bank manager ".
Anyway, apologies for this bout of nostalga, now back to Edinburgh.
The man was the late James Myles , he was always keen on knowing how Glasgow was faring passenger wise , and he was a bank manager !