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Air Traffic Control Officer.
Was it Chris Wren or Roger Bacon who wrote many years ago:
ATCO = Someone who swore he'd starve before becoming an Air Traffic Control Officer and has been doing both ever since.
Was it Chris Wren or Roger Bacon who wrote many years ago:
ATCO = Someone who swore he'd starve before becoming an Air Traffic Control Officer and has been doing both ever since.
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The "officer" bit may be a throwback to the distant past when we all worked for one ministry or other e.g. the department of trade and Industry. All civil servants had similar job titles like higher executive officer, or principal executive officer etc.
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Originally Posted by HEATHROW DIRECTOR
Air Traffic Control Officer.
Was it Chris Wren or Roger Bacon who wrote many years ago:
ATCO = Someone who swore he'd starve before becoming an Air Traffic Control Officer and has been doing both ever since.
Was it Chris Wren or Roger Bacon who wrote many years ago:
ATCO = Someone who swore he'd starve before becoming an Air Traffic Control Officer and has been doing both ever since.
Is this the same Roger Bacon who has a column in Flight? If so: is it a pseudonym?
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Quincy.. That's "him". I suspect that Roger Bacon never existed as a person but was the name of a column written by several writers, much like the gossip columns in daily rags. 30-40 years ago Roger Bacon's column was priceless; I don't even know if Flight exists nowadays. Chris Wren had a colum in Aeroplane magazine. He existed and was a brilliant cartoonist.
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Roger Bacon
Ah I see, thanks. Well I presume that Flight is the same magazine as Flight International and if so then it does still exist and he has a column every week; though sometimes the humour goes over my head. I guess I have not been in the business long enough.
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Roger Bacon (c. 1214 – 1294) was one of the most famous Franciscan friars of his time. He studied and later became a Master at Oxford
He possessed one of the most commanding intellects of his age, made many discoveries, and came near to many others. . His Opus Majus contains treatments of mathematics and optics, alchemy and the manufacture of gunpowder, the positions and sizes of the celestial bodies, and anticipates later inventions such as microscopes, telescopes, spectacles, flying machines and steam ships.
I don't think Flight International was around then but you can be sure that is where the name of the cherished column came from.
He possessed one of the most commanding intellects of his age, made many discoveries, and came near to many others. . His Opus Majus contains treatments of mathematics and optics, alchemy and the manufacture of gunpowder, the positions and sizes of the celestial bodies, and anticipates later inventions such as microscopes, telescopes, spectacles, flying machines and steam ships.
I don't think Flight International was around then but you can be sure that is where the name of the cherished column came from.
