He ended his career at Britannia Airways Erick
He was the base manager for BY at Glasgow
For along time Jamie kept one Britannia 100 in Glasgow - (Usually G-ANBJ) and legend has it that he personally
"handpicked" all the Glasgow based Stews -- within Britannia it was known as "Aldermans Airways"
If you read "A Chartered Success" by Ian Ormes you can learn more about him -- Britannia had some real characters
in the begining - Mostly because of the MacDougal's hiring practises. I was fortunate that because my mother ran the Nav Office for George Bereford (another " character") so many of the pilots availed themselves of our spare bedroom as a crashpad (We lived literally at the bottom of the hill from Luton Airport) so I got to meet the likes of Jamie, Pete Fish, Davey Hopkins (who went on to become the MD of BAL) Dave Farmer, the list goes on. They all had incredible histories in post war British aviation.
I think the one "legend" that I heard sitting in the bar at the Hickmet at Gatwick was the Donaldson 707 supposedly
making a slow transatlantic crossing because of headwinds -- and the flight deck crew became bored and all three climbed down into the E&E bay through the door behind the FE's seat -- the last one hit the cabin attendant call button then ducked inside -- they could hear the Stew screaming from the back of the aircraft.
The other one which has gone around and around was a BAF Carvair doing Southend to Basle. One of the stews was new and very snotty.....The story goes that the Flight deck crew arranged for the other stew to bring a cup of crew of mushroom soup that they cooked up in hotcups. Then the snotty FA was summoned to the flight deck (This entailed
walking through the car compartment and climbing to the flight deck by ladder). When she arrived she was asked to bring a couple of sick sacks to the flight deck as the FO was feeling unwell. She did this - and left -- no sooner had she
returned to the cabin the flight deck crew called her back saying she needed to dispose of the mess -- and oh yes could she bring a spoon. So back through the car compartment up the ladder and there is a sick sack sitting behind the throttle pedestal looking full, greasy and steaming slightly......She was about to pick it up when the FE picked it up and asked her for the spoon --- you know whats coming ;-) She apparently was very pleasent to crew members after this incident.
Leif
