Lady Buxton

[I.R.PIRATE]

variable vernacular

Mongooses......???


Well if Goose becomes Geese, moose should be meese, and then by jove.....how many MONGEESE should we releese?

[cavortingcheetah]

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi was the most famous mongoose of all the mongooses.
The word derives from the Marathi word mangus, with the stress on the 'u'; hence the plural derivative.
There is no particular collective noun for the mongoose but more than a couple are usually referred to as 'a pack'.
The collective noun for nuns, bye the bye, is a 'superfluity'. This derives from the 'Book of St Albans' attributed to one Juliana Barnes in 1486.
Ain't that an amazing piece of information though?

Rikki-tikki woke up with a jump, for the mongooses are light sleepers. "Oh, it's you," said he. "What are you bothering for? All the cobras are dead. And if they weren't, I'm here." Rikki-tikki had a right to be proud of himself. But he did not grow too proud, and he kept that garden as a mongoose should keep it, with tooth and jump and spring and bite, till never a cobra dared show its head inside the walls.

[Rhodie]

Would that be Jackson, B, well known ladies man and ex aviator of a hirsute persuasion?

Not quite my good Jaire des galopades Acinonyx jubalatus...

That would be Jackson, G. Hirsute, indeed - but maybe of the less literal translation.

One that would be good fodder for the mongooses at that.

Cheerio..

[cavortingcheetah]

That's a pity then, the other was a rather amusing sort of chap much given to frequenting the Far East.

[sk8erboi]

Try asking the folk who were approached with a 'special deal' if the paid up front only a week before they shut down if cheat and thief are too harsh. This is a hard, cynical woman who trades on these credentials to relieve folk of their hard earned. She gives an operation credibility with all these CAA connections, than disappears with the cash. FTC, GFT, the rand operation. Yeah Jackson was just as bad, but he could never have done it alone.

[4granted]

JAR Renewals

So whos going to do our JAR renewals in SA Now???


4G

[cavortingcheetah]

I note the following with some degree of suspicious gusto.

CAA Bids Victoria Buxton Farewell
Tuesday, 3 April 2001

The Chief Executive Officer and Commissioner for Civil Aviation, Mr Trevor Abrahams, on behalf of the Civil Aviation Authority, bids Victoria Buxton, General Manager: Air Safety Operations, farewell following her resignation effective from 1 May 2001.

"Victoria has extensive experience in the aviation field gained in the UK, where she worked as a private and commercial pilot instructor, deputy chief pilot and chief flying instructor. She has also worked for the UK CAA as a flight examiner and has a Masters degree in Business Administration. She was appointed Vice President - Business Development and Marketing for the British Aerospace Flying College.
She relocated to South Africa where she established Jet Time and opened her consultancy, Horizons Unlimited, prior to joining the South African CAA. The CAA was very fortunate to have had her services since its establishment in 1998. We are sad to lose someone of Victoria's calibre," said Mr Abrahams

"I have been plagued by accidents and illness for much of 2000, which has resulted in my being away from work for lengthy periods. My recent car accident means that once again I have to be away from work.

I will be returning to aviation since this is a disease as one writer said. However, I believe that I need time to concentrate on my health so that I am able to recover fully," said Buxton.

Issued by:
Jackie Mfeka
Manager : Communications
083 635 0019

From a pifling Elstree instructor in 1981 to such glory, so soon, so quick. Methinks I smell a nasty trick?

cc:

Ex DCA/ZA Flight Examiner (That's a neat little euphemism for a Grade 11.). Ex DCA/ZA Type Rating Examiner (Heavy). Ex CAA/UK Flight Examiner. Ex CAA/UK Training Captain. Ex Chief Pilot/ My own company. Ex Deputy Chief Pilot/Someone else's. PHD/Clinical Pyschology/University of Calcutta/pending.
Doctorate in Applied Criminology/Ditto/Awaiting Confirmation.
Member: The Honourable Society of The Middle Temple.
Past participant: The College of Law. Chancery Lane. London.
This is all true of course and there's a lot more to it. But! The Rhubarb's in the stewing. You should see my old CV, from the days when my reputation did not preceed me and I needed one!
Totsiens.

[Banzai-blades]

CC

You just managed to light up a gloomy/sandy day.

AAh to be blessed with the gift of the gab must be bliss

[cavortingcheetah]

Not always, Banzai-blades, but I thank you. It drives my family crazy, which is more or less where I want them to be, before I drift off and juxtapose an entirely new schematic in my life - plop! The South Pacific.

Stand by one:

JAR renewals. I'll just see if I can drift up a qualification which would enable me to sign you off on that.

[oompilot]

Cavortingcheetah. Your postings are a great read. I must admit I find myself looking for your posts to read and see what crazy smoked up literature you have created for us each day. Careful that mendical though!

[cavortingcheetah]

Thank you. A pretty compliment indeed.
Smack my occiput if it is not! Zounds & foresooth!

[cavortingcheetah]

I must confess that I am not quite sure about my source for this rather piece of ephemeral wit. I seem to remember, upon a rapid and roughshod search through the jolly old Hippocampus, that it was attributed to James 1 of England, V1 of Scotland. This somewhat surprises me as, I rather thought the good fellow said:

'Sir, I can make you a Lord. I cannot make you a Gentleman.'

Which, from anyone north of the Highland Clearances, is a trifle rich.

Possibly the wit is rather engastrimythic ? I have my doubts that any Scot were ever so lucid.

As I awake, stretching out in a languid fashion for my servant to bring me the gazogene, the cognac, a fresh woman, and a cigar, are we really going to let La Jackson go slithering off into the long grass?

It seems to me, en passant, as it were, that she has, if not directly but then by innuendo, been described both variously and varietally as a liar, and a cheat. Recourse to private correspondence, about which I say absolutely nothing, ever, suggests, in a transpirational sort of way, that the some lucky lads there might be enjoying sexual proclivities of a rather Olympian nature. Jolly good so far. Is Vernon a Troll? I am not so well informed as to pass judgement. But I do spot a conger slithering off (apologies JKR - stick with Tolkien).

I think that the falsity of proclaimed parentage has been established de minimis (?) (good, what?!) A morsel of the exucontian.

It seems to me, in a moment of rather personal and perspicacious revelry, that Lady Buxton degrades and diminishes my titles impostumately.

Just nip off boy, and call her Mrs Jackson. I damn well would!

[aerocomm]

Silverknapper

She Flew B737's for BA yes, but she was also a check out captain on B767's and A340's for British CAA and SACAA.

Not defending, just giving credit where due. As I said in previous posting... I am not a fan!!!

[cavortingcheetah]

Back home in my mother's land of Pennsylvania, any reputable nightclub has a check out captain.
Her job is to take, guard and distribute, overcoats, scarves and so on. Occasionally she will be called upon to provide private service in the mens' public toilets. Altogether, a rather useful sort of individual.
That sounds about the lay of the land to me.

[boomarang]

Confirm Please

Aerocom

Please do confirm the source of your detailed information on this matter.

Some friends close to the dear Lady have whispered that there has never been a UK B737 rating let alone the B767 and Airbus 340 on the Hon. Lady Buxton's license.

Have some friends on mine researching the matter with the UK CAA and BA as we talk.

More on the topic soon

[silverknapper]

She Flew B737's for BA yes, but she was also a check out captain on B767's and A340's for British CAA and SACAA.

What . She was not a type rated check captain on anything except a 172. She worked for UK CAA as some sort of flight ops inspector so would have observed flights in that capacity to check SOP's were being followed.
Do tell us where this crap is coming from aerocomm, make us laugh even more!!!!

[4Screwaircrew]

She taught me for the IR, and then joined the CAA as an examiner for inital IR and GFT, at that time she had flown nothing larger than the King Air, and had not passed the writtens for the ATPL.

The last time I saw her she was still under training in the examining role.

[4HolerPoler]

This is getting really interesting - can't wait for boomarang's feedback. If you guys hadn't worked it out yet, I can confirm that aerocomm's posts are coming directly from within the NW bunker - maybe it's not the good Lady herself but aerocomm certainly is more than just a "fan" of our titled personage.

4HP

[silverknapper]

Bring it on for aerocomm!!
We await boomarang eagerly!!!
She was indeed a busy 'Lady'! An MBA as well as captain on all these types!!!

I will be returning to aviation since this is a disease as one writer said. However, I believe that I need time to concentrate on my health so that I am able to recover fully," said Buxton.

And to concentrate on her latest scam - her own flying school!

[alwaysinverted]

I was gonna suggest that Aerocomm is the good lady herself.

"Self praise is no recommendation"

Come on Boomerang, you can phone your Commissioner buddies in practically all the CAA's around the world. Give us the gen bro