Support was expected, but the British Air Line Pilots Association ( BALPA ) nevertheless organised a confidential postal ballot to ask its members at BEA whether or not they wanted to strike.

BALPA was also in an industrial dispute with BEA, concerning issues of pay and working conditions.

BALPA was one of the founder members of IFALPA, the International Federation of Airline Pilots Associations, which co-ordinates the views and opinions of well over 100, 000 flight crew around the globe.

In Europe, BALPA was a founding member of ECA, the European Cockpit Association.

However the trigger which led to the creation of BALPA in the late thirties was the irresponsible attitude of Imperial Airways towards safety issues and particularly the risk of airframe icing on one type.

After a period of giving informal help to BALPA during which he helped avoid a BEA pilots strike in 1972, he was formally appointed a general secretary in 1974.

This was especially true in BA and there was some resentment among non BA pilots who sometimes referred to BALPA as the ‘ British Airways Pilot ’ s Association ’ ( although they too saw improvements ).

BALPA was one of the founder members of the European Cockpit Association ( ECA ) dedicated to ensuring that the pilots ’ voice was clearly heard in Brussels.

In 1992 Chris Darke was elected General Secretary and the balance between BA and non BA pilots within the association started to tilt away from BA as the non-BA airlines proliferated and BALPA membership in them increased.

There were protests at the conduct of the inquiry by BALPA ( which likened it to " a lawyers ' picnic "), and by the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators which condemned the rules of evidence adopted and the adversarial nature of the proceedings.

Eric Lane Burslem, eventually BALPA ’ s first chairman, briefed by the American pilots on how to set up a pilots ’ association, worked with others to create an ‘ Organising Committee ’.

The British Airline Pilots ' Association ( BALPA ) represents well over 75 % of all the fixed wing pilots and helicopter aircrew based in the UK-as well as many working overseas.

BALPA works with the Civil Aviation Authority, the Department for Transport, the Department of Trade and Industry and many other bodies where the voice of ‘ the pilot ' is needed.

Either of these dates could be regarded as the birthday of BALPA.

Imperial Airways and Woods Humphries initiated a programme of intimidation including slander and sackings of BALPA members.

A number of BALPA ’ s founders were killed on active service.

The same year BALPA joined in the creation of the National Joint Council for Civil Aviation.

Between 1947 and 1966 BALPA membership rose from one thousand plus to over three thousand.

During the ensuing fifteen or so years, under the wily leadership of Mark Young, BALPA members saw their real salaries and conditions increase substantially.

In 1977 BALPA joined Europilote, a European wide association of pilots ’ unions.

Perhaps the ECA ’ s most auspicious battle has been with the politicians and bureaucrats of Brussels over the issue of flight and duty-time limitations and BALPA ’ s input to this debate has been considerable.

In the late nineties and into the new century new low cost airlines expanded rapidly giving BALPA many problems in representing their pilots.

In 2006 BALPA won a court case brought against it by Ryanair.

In 2000 Virgin Atlantic Airways became a BALPA airline.

In 2008 BALPA membership passed ten thousand for the first time.

State Party Chairman James W. Dorsey added that enthusiasm was picking up for a state rally to be held Sept. 8 in Savannah at which newly elected Texas Sen. John Tower will be the featured speaker.

Winning the 1951 Best Picture Oscar and numerous other awards, the film was directed by Vincente Minnelli, featured many tunes of Gershwin, and concluded with an extensive, elaborate dance sequence built around the An American in Paris symphonic poem ( arranged for the film by Johnny Green ), costing $ 500, 000.

The Atari 7800 version was a launch title and featured co-operative play, it was the built in game on the European Atari 7800 release.

Aztlan Underground appeared on television on Culture Clash on Fox in 1993, was part of Breaking Out, a concert on pay per view in 1998, and was featured in the independent films Algun Dia and Frontierlandia.

The song " The Raven " featured lead vocals by the actor Leonard Whiting, and, according to the 2007 remastered album liner notes, was the first rock song to use a digital vocoder, with Alan Parsons speaking lyrics through it.

Although the studio version of Freudiana was produced by Parsons ( and featured the regular Project backing musicians, making it an ' unofficial ' Project album ), it was primarily Woolfson's idea to turn it into a musical.

The opening instrumental was largely done away with by 1980 ; no later Project album except Eye in the Sky featured one ( although every album includes at least one instrumental somewhere in the running order ).

" The Abadan oil refinery was featured on the reverse side of Iran's 100-rial banknotes printed in 1965 and from 1971 to 1973.

In PAL countries the OpalVision card was popular, although less featured and supported than the Video Toaster.

The logo was redesigned with red and silver accents to depict a more powerful, aggressive falcon, which now more closely resembles the capital letter F. Although the Falcons still wore black helmets, the new uniforms featured jerseys and pants with red trim down the sides.

The 5200 also featured the innovation of the first automatic TV switchbox, allowing it to automatically switch from regular TV viewing to the game system signal when the system was activated.

Blue Lightning, a game with After Burner-like graphics, was especially notable and featured in TV advertising for the console.

The song was later featured in the film The Birdcage ( 1996 ) and performed by Robin Williams and Christine Baranski.

Compared to the modern versions, the Sparrow I was more streamlined and featured a bullet-shaped airframe with a long pointed nose.

He was especially impressed by the flip side " Treat Me Nice " as this featured a piano.

Bardot was featured in many other films along with notable actors such as Alain Delon ( Famous Love Affairs ; Spirits of the Dead ); Jean Gabin ( In Case of Adversity ); Sean Connery ( Shalako ); Jean Marais ( Royal Affairs in Versailles ; School for Love ); Lino Ventura ( Rum Runners ); Annie Girardot ( The Novices ); Claudia Cardinale ( The Legend of Frenchie King ); Jeanne Moreau ( Viva Maria!

His lengthiest interview was featured as the cover story in The Comics Journal # 127 in the late 1980s.

It repeated this success in the Australian charts and was also featured in the film, Letter to Brezhnev.

The film was admired by Jean-Luc Godard, who featured a clip in his mammoth Histoire ( s ) du cinéma, and Pauline Kael who championed both The Fury and De Palma.

For his last game, the theme from Pearl Harbor, " There You'll Be " by Faith Hill, was featured.

He was followed in the role by Glenn Causey, who portrayed the rugged frontiersman for 41 years, and whose image is still seen in many of the depictions of Boone featured in the area today.

The new designs also featured a dynamic set of titles for the channel ; the globe would begin spinning from where the main story was taking place, while the headline scrolled around in a ribbon ; this was occasionally replaced by the BBC News logo.