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...made his first coup in 1948 supplying planes to the Berlin airlift, runs a strict, no-frills operation on the ground as well as in the air. Headquarters of the line-which up to now has mostly operated charter flights-are stuffed into four floors of a Gatwick hangar, and there are no elevators. The line has just four directors, including Laker, who have only to shout down the hall to one another to make decisions. Says Freddie, who is gambling with his own money (he owns 90% of Laker stock; his wife owns the rest): "There are two price...
With one stage for every ten musicians in town, Austin has blossomed into a performer's paradise. Hangar-size halls like the Armadillo World Headquarters and slant-floored beer emporiums like the Split Rail give steady work to such country-rock artists as Marsha Ball, Joe Ely and 400 of their fellow singers, songwriters and pickers. Because of Austin's relatively low cost of living, musicians can work cheaply. "And if they're down on their luck," says a local writer, "they can score a dope deal to hold them over...
Near the first deserted hangar, one old man sat in a pickup truck, as its wipers waved like frightened insect antennae. "Sure, some people will fly today", he said. "The crazy ones". We swallowed and thanked him and found the main hangar. Inside, a few corporate jets loomed over the buglike pipers scattered around them. We wandered through the huge building, finally stumbling on a friendly pilot who said finding a ride would be easy. Just go to the operations desk, he said, and ask who's heading south...
...were about to attack the next hangar, a smaller one, when an efficient Teterboro policeman drove up, a stocky black-leather trooper who politely said that the blue executive had summoned him and that he would arrest us if we didn't quickly disappear. We retreated to Manny's Cockpit Restaurant, with its bicentennial decor, to dry off and plan strategy and punish ourselves with thoughts of condominiums and never-more-than-ten-minutes-of-rain-a-day. Two dozen yards off, Bruce was pumping gas into the Miami-bound Lear jet, and we couldn't look for its pilot...
...painstaking care of jets like the 747. Each plane, and each engine on each plane, gets a series of standard checkups. Even if it has no obvious problems, the jet receives an eight-hour maintenance check four times annually. Every year, in addition, mechanics wheel each plane into a hangar for two weeks and tear it down piece by piece, like federal agents hunting for heroin. Ceilings and floors are removed, every rivet and every cable is inspected. Engines are constantly being monitored and overhauled. The maintenance procedures are so complicated and expensive that TWA estimates it has $300 million...