You know how much he treasures the memory of his flight in G-ASGK and he has spent most of his life re-creating it? Well, his most valued posession in the whole wide world is his BOAC Junior Jet Club logbook which records his flight and is signed by the Captain. In order to protect his feelings, I've never mentioned this before, but since he's making such a song and dance about deciphering the Captain's signature, I decided that now is the time to tell him
It was a junior stewardess's responsibility to fill out the kiddies' logbooks and present them to the Captain for signing. But junior stewardesses and stewards were not allowed through the First Class curtains, let alone on the flight deck. And asking one to sign something was like asking to get beaten up. So most of the time the stewardess would forge a signature and make it illegible so nobody would know who it was. Sometimes they would ask me to do it as the handwriting would be different :dance:
Just occasionally, you'd get a Captain who asked for the logbooks for signing and if you'd already done it you were in even more trouble :roll: So they were usually left until the last minute so the Captain would never know.
From Dan's attempt at deciphering the name I reckon it is either the Pakistani based stewardess (he was on a Karachi flight) or somebody with a sense of humour. Captain Armrest? I don't think so
He's spinning this yarn about being taken onto the flight deck and seeing the Captain sign it personally. Yeah right! He was only four. He was probably taken into the back galley and saw the second steward picking his nose! How would he know the difference?
Actually it probably wasn't even a VC10 it was probably a .........aaaargh! Look out he's coming to get me........ :axe:
Kinda doubt that would be allowed these days. :roll: 
