THE BATTALION
MONDAY, MARCH 17, 1980
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oman pilot says she enjoys jet set life
United Press International
NEW YORK — Claudia Jones,
one of the few women flying com
mercial jets, predicts that one day
sold around $81 soon we will board a flight with an
■ar performancea ill-woman cockpit crew — and no
ike at the Pnr!f ; 3n J w jU even blink an eye.
and some otlei “Actually, I understand this
jacks. ilready has occurred,” said Jones,
alist regime left? member of a nine-person family in
vernment will t 1 which everyone is taking flying les-
r Crown corponi: sons. ‘‘I don’t recall the instance,
d businesseniepbut I know I read or heard about it. ”
anada. Curtis sair Jones, 35, is not a woman pilot
s to spin offorsellti pushing for more women in the cock-
uprise since theii'pit.' She looks at any pilot from the
e in generally# standpoint of skill and qualifications,
public manageiif not pex.
ie provincesfinsi; As a pilot, she has logged more
d that last year ban 6,500 flying hours, is licensed
companies brace fly multi-engine craft, and has
one-third as t; nstrument and instructor ratings.
“I’m not what you’d call a femin
ist, ” said Jones. “I’m just one of those
people who’ve gone out and done
things. But the women’s movement
certainly helped pave the way for
women being accepted in flying. I
couldn’t have done 20 years ago
what I’m doing now.
“An airlines may look at you as a
woman. But you have to be qual
ified. My training was no different
from that of the men.”
Jones, based in El Paso, is a copilot
with Continental Airlines, flying
Boeing 727-200jets. She is president
of the “ISA Plus 21”, which stands for
International Social Affiliation of
Women Airline Pilots, plus the 21
charter members. ISA’s member
ship is strictly for women who fly the
major carriers and craft over 90,000
pounds, she said. The planes mostly
are jet, but some prop jets qualify.
“We have about 55 members of
the 110 or so qualified women,
worldwide,” she said. Several well-
known foreign carriers have women
in the cockpits.
“I think we’re going to see a lot of
women coming into the ranks now,
as more and more are getting used to
handling jet equipment,” she said.
Jones also is immediate past presi
dent of the International Women’s
Helicopter Pilots Association (Whir-
ly Girls, Inc.).
She began with Continental in
May 1977 as a second officer (flight
engineer) and in April 1978 moved
on to copilot. Cockpit crews move up
by seniority, she said. So one day it
should be Captain Claudia Jones.
Jones was in New York recently to
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accept Glamour magazine’s honor as
one of the 10 outstanding working
women of 1980. Because of her
flight schedule, the interview was
completed by telephone from Mex
ico City.
The family of Joneses — of El
Paso, Las Vegas and Mt. Charleston,
Nev., and other points west — fly in
private planes to family reunions,
some owning their personal craft for
short and long hauls.
And everyone in the family is into
aviation.
Her husband, Hal, licensed com
mercially and also classified as a Fed
eral Aviation Agency (FAA) inspec
tor, used to fly for Hughes Aviation
Service. Now he and his wife own
Silver State Helicopters, Inc.,
which serves the Las Vegas area.
When she isn’t in the commercial
cockpit, the two teach flying includ
ing ‘copters. They also teach sea
plane flying on Lake Meade.
Jones — the wife — taught or is
teaching all five of her step-children
to fly. Kathy, 25, has her air trans
port rating (commercial) and is flight
engineer with Western Airlines.
Next step in seniority will be copilot.
Bart, 24, is a chief mechanic and
pilot of both fimed wing and copters.
Kevin, 22, is working toward his
commercial license and copter rating
and is flying for a construction com
pany. Melanie, 20, is studying flying
while she works in passenger ser
vice in El Paso, and John, 16, is
taking flying lessons.
“I also taught my brother,” she
said. Her brother, Graham Simpson,
10 years her junior, is a captain with
Gem State Airlines (to be renamed
Golden Gate), which calls itself the
nation’s largest commuter carrier.
She majored in music at Florida
State University, was graduated in
the mid-1960s, and in 1967 with a
friend formed a nightclub act,
“Carol and Claudia — the Living
Dolls.”
Jones is both a vocalist and in
strumentalist — she plays 19 instru
ments.
She took up flying because the two
women and the three back-up musi
cians had problems getting from one
engagement to the next. “Our old
moving van just was no longer prac
tical, ” she said. “The group said I was
the logical one to take the lessons.”
The group chipped in for her aerial
education and she soloed the same
year. Two years later she had re
ceived all her ratings. She also taught
partner Carol to fly and the transpor
tation problem was solved.
“But when it comes to priorities.
flying will always be first, ” she said.
“I can’t believe I’m doing something
I love so much.
Managing her schedule must call
for super-organization.
A member of the 99, a women
pilots’ organization founded by
Amelia Earhart, she and her daugh
ter Kathy once flew in the Powder
Puff Derby and finished 38th among
200 planes.
She said that as member of a cock
pit crew she had never seen any dis
crimination because of being a
woman “although I take some goodn-
atured teasing.
“You ask about things like discri
mination. We all had a laugh at
ourselves on one flight. Our captain
was half-Indian, I was the woman
copilot, we had a black flight en
gineer, and all the flight attendants
were men!”
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United Press International
WASHINGTON — In the spirit of
“Waste Not, Want Not” mood of
,he nation, Congress is considering a
dll to set up experiments for effi-
ient use of timber harvest waste
loducts as energy sources or for any
ither uses researchers can find,
iving, membranes’ F° r years brush, residues from
ent extraction: ut ti n £ trees, dead trees and trees
enzvmecheir-^ttUd not meet use standards were
rood the enzs bought to have no value,
t the water or: Now researchers, looking for new
ash nergy sources, realize the wastes
rom timber harvesting and manu-
icture of forest products can be used
a produce methanol — an alcohol
iiel— and other exotic fuels.
Legislation approved last week by
he House agriculture subcommittee
n forests would set up a pilot prog
am. Emphasis will be placed on us-
aglvastes from both national forests
filiation were
tier enzyme
ase the akol
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filiation,
about the onl;
fuel in makinj
rce of waste b
nd private lands for energy produc-
ion, but goals of the legislation are
r ) i i woadly written so that other uses are
tar already 1 ,
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; , Already some research into uses
jr wood waste products is under
lay. This program will show if ideas
esearchers come up can be de-
eloped with an eye toward profit-
ble, commercial use. Pilot projects
power plant.
and high-tempi
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1 produced to fry™ f or un( J er the legislation must
ie petroleums: , e economica i ly feasible,
v ‘ 1 The bill combines a pilot program
jr wood utilization with another
treat \ mcreainJLpt to t es t ways to encourage
" . r . c . Is 110 ' emoval of wood residues from na-
aill 1’c dofloi j ona | f orest ar eas.
nistryisaccfh The two concepts were contained
l° r j t ia !! 7 a separate pieces of legislation until
.*n identified t e p James Weaver, D-Ore., chair-
production,] nan 0 f the House forests subcom-
nd wine im: n ittee, and Sen. John Melcher, D-
and other in» 4 0 nt., agreed to combine the bills.
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Initially, the utilization project
was more ambitious, but the admi
nistration convinced legislators to
scale the legislation down to a pilot
project size.
Weaver said incentives to remove
residues and new uses of residues
can be made to work together to re
duce hazards from fire, insects and
disease in forests and “help regener
ate harvested areas to encourage
thinning of overcrowded stands, and
lessen the need to dispose of wood
residues by burning.”
The portion of the bill directed
toward removing residues would pay
purchasers of national forest timber
for their costs of processing and re
moving wood residues from timber
areas to locations where they can be
converted into fuel or other pro
ducts.
As part of contractural arrange
ments governing sale of national
forest timber, wood purchasers
would receive credits on the purch
ase price of their timber in return for
removing residues. The arrange
ment would provide greater flexibil
ity in pricing of timber.
Residues would not be removed if
removal costs exceeded value of re
sidues, except when wood should be
removed for fire prevention, site
preparation or improving wildlife
habitat.
The projects — which would help
determine just how much it costs to
remove and transport residues —
would be authorized for five years for
a cost of $37.5 million spread over
that time.
Douglas Leisz, associate chief of
the Forest Service, told the House
subcommittee that an estimated 150
million to 250 million tons of wood
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j|ji By ROSEMARY ALYEA
Campus Reporter
The Graduate Student Council
GSC) is providing the opportunities
n front of the classroom for once
nstead of sitting and listening to a
Joring lecture.
( The Community Education Com-
nittee of the GSC is organizing a
tommunity education program in
vhich people give short classroom
alks in their area of expertise.
■ Lori Fix, chairman of the com
munity education committee, is the
originator of the idea. A graduate
student in the department of en-
omology, Fix has been involved in
he department’s program of speak
ing to elementary students.
RFix said she thought it would be a
good idea to coordinate a campus
wide effort in a program of this type.
The program will start with the
A&M Consolidated School District.
However, the prgram is open to any
interested school or organization,
Fix said.
Persons interested in being speak
ers should give their name, a de
scription of the talk which should be
30-45 minutes long, age group pre
ference, equipment or visual aids,
and the time they are available to
speak.
Interested persons should contact
Lori Fix, department of entomology,
at 845-2516 or the A&M Consoli
dated school district community
education office at 696-3820.
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forests.
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feasible for utilization if we provide
some incentive,” Leisz said. “The
provisions of this bill would be of
great assistance to the utilization
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