LANETTE DUNCAN
FLIGHT ATTENDANT

Jake, Have a few minutes to fill you in a little. I started with FAL in Feb
of 68. I was sent to Dallas. I was pretty naive and that was a real awakening
and growing up. When I applied to FAL I lied on my app as I had never even
seen the inside of an airplane. At that time we went through 3 weeks of
training before we finished up with 3 training flights. I was so scared on my
first flight that I told the Senior F/A that I had never flown. That was Dee
Brock. She took one look at my scared poopless face and told me to go sit
down and try to relax. On take off on the 727 out of Denver when the pilot
cut back on the engines I thought my life was over. It was a long day, but I
stuck it out until the bitter end in 86. I said I would send some stories,
but don't know where to start. I flew with so many of the old Central pilots,
Mean Max Gardner, Emit Sphinx (we could fill a book on just stories about
him), Captain Midnight ( can't remember his real name), he always wore a
patch over his eye, I guess to look dashing. He eyed all the women getting on
the plane and in flight would come out of the cockpit and do his thing. Was
flying with EP Lietz when we pulled into the gate and an FAA inspector was
there getting ready to board our airplane. Problem was that it was Christmas
and EP had reindeer antlers on. I also few a lot with one Billy Walker. When
Cheryl, who he eventually married, came to work for FAL she was one of the
sweetest and most naive girls I had ever met. Then Billy started wooing her,
I mean, every FA in the base warned her away from him, you see, he used to
get around. Looks like the years proved us wrong, thank goodness. Guess he
knew a good thing when he found it. I flew with so many great people and miss
everyone very much. And it was so much fun to land in a city and see the
familiar faces of the ground crews and catch up on stories. We had such a
wonderful group of people. I can't say as I wish I was with CAL, but I sure
would still be flying if the old FAL was still here.  Those were priceless years!
Lanette Duncan
(3/31/99)