Peter Garrison, long-time columnist for Flying magazine, has an editorial in today’s Los Angeles Times about the Transportation Security Administration and their new ability to revoke the airman certificate of anyone it deems a “security risk.” He poses the question “How far is our country willing to go in trading real freedoms for illusions of security?” It’s well worth sharing with your non-pilot friends.
The editorial is available by clicking http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/suncommentary/la-op-garrison2feb02,0,5773354.story?here. The site requires registration, but is otherwise free of charge.
Cheers,
Roger
PS: As you may have read in Flying, Melmoth 2 — Peter’s experimental aircraft project for the past two decades — is flying at last. You can read all about this modern aircraft and its antediluvian panel (including an airspeed indicator from a DC-4) at http://www.melmoth2.com/http://www.melmoth2.com/.
Roger,
I love the logo - is that an Airboy original?
Very good article by Garrison. I didn’t need to register to see it (although it’s possible I’ve registered before, and there’s a cookie lurking on my PC).
- Mike.
I love the logo - is that an Airboy original?
Hi Mike,
It’s an adaptation of the logo of the http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USARnra.htmNational Recovery Administration, established under the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933. For more about the National Recovery Administration, http://www.bartleby.com/65/na/NatlReco.htmlclick here.
Cheers,
Roger
Yup, recognize the NRA (no, not that NRA) origins of the poster. It’s still great, and I nominate it as Official COPA Logo. Just a thought.
Hi Jim,
Thanks! I’ve attached a full-size version for your amusement.
Cheers,
Roger
An “E.U.” in left side…?
Sorry ehh!?
Great Job Roger. If it isn’t crossing some copyright rule, I wonder if COPA could have a bunch of these made up into stickers? I would love to put one on our upcoming plane. How about it Mike?
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An “E.U.” in left side…?
Great idea! Plus a little kiwi or roo on the bottom, for the Cirrus fliers from the Antipodes. Or a wombat. Koala?
President MikeRad, no kidding, one of your early acts of office should be to adopt this new Great Seal of COPAdom.
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President MikeRad, no kidding, one of your early acts of office should be to adopt this new Great Seal of COPAdom.
And then we should get AirBoy to design COPA name tags. Perhaps something like those used by the AYA.
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And then we should get AirBoy to design COPA name tags.
If we use Roger’s doodles… what would the tags look like?
[;)]
Seriously - I like this image ; Roger - anyone have any proprietary rights to that drawing that we should know about?
- Mike.
The “COPA We do our part” is a good slogan but I do not think the eagle and gears along with “US” really represents COPA very well. We need something more “safety concious”.
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I do not think the eagle and gears along with “US” really represents COPA very well.
I agree with Brian. (Plus the little lightning bolts discriminate against those members without stormscopes…)
Brian,
Safety-conscious it is!
Cheers,
Roger
You guys are catching on to why we don’t have a logo! [;)]
- Mike.
Michael and Brian,
I like to look at the gear and lightning bolts as representing old technology (i. e. the geared, spark-generating magneto) on which the eagle has a firm grasp. But the eagle is looking resolutely forward as it wings onward into the future. (Stop me before I interpret again…)
Cheers,
Roger
But we do have a mission!
Mike,
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You guys are catching on to why we don’t have a logo!
May be why the AYA went with something distinct, but simple and non-controversial.
and
Let us put our imaginations to work…
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Thank you,
The COPA Team
Mike,
Perhaps the solution is to have several different approved logos. You could download whichever logo you wanted for use on letterhead, business cards, T-shirts, tattoos, etc. Let a thousand logos bloom!
One need only be careful about using too many logos simultaneously (see attached).
Cheers,
Roger
I’m with Airboy! The eagle has a firm foundation on industrial-age tech – that’s what it’s standing on, with its claws – and it’s building on that foundation to reach toward newer and better things.
Main point is: the concept of campy, deliberately-retro visual humor has done wonders for Airboy’s own TransGoleta Airways, and it couldn’t hurt COPA. Maybe COPA-dom is big enough for schisms, and one can emerge based on logos. One group can embrace the campy-looking Depression-era-resolute Eagle; others could have, maybe, a smiley face? Just an idea.[;)]
More where that came from…