.......my, how things change!
10 years ago at the bar at the LHR Crowne Plaza, evenings were always livened up by a certain US airline's aged Senior Captain in full uniform propping up the bar having got on the outside of the best part of a bottle of Scotch, regaling public and crew alike with tales, including the memorable phrase "Gee, last night we brought that 7-47 in sideways!"
Ironically the airline is one of the few US majors not in Ch 11.