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Orono Weekly limes, WednesdayTMarch 1, 2000 - 11 Orville Challice bought one of the two Drummonds up for auction at the Grist Mill Auction Hall Friday evening. The Challice's of Orono own several oil painting of this once prominent Orono painter. Arthur A. Drummond, came to Orono in 1926 to manage the bank, and created many works of art in his 49 years here. Orville says he knew the Drummonds well since they were once neighbours. BASIC BLACK by Arthur Black COFFEE, TEA, OR NONE OF THE ABOVE? Anybody got work out there for an airplane captain? captain? An ex-airplane captain, captain, actually. ' Worked for Northwest Airlines for 22 years, right up until that fateful day last November, when, sitting in the cockpit of his Boeing 727, waiting in line to take off from Las Vegas to Detroit -- he finally, cracked. ' It was the in-flight meal that did it. The stewardess brought two trays forward into the cockpit, one for the captain, the other for his co-pilot. The captain peeled back the tinfoil, took one look, hung up his earphones and got off the plane. Not only got off the plane, but called for a taxi, took the taxi from the airport airport to a nearby restaurant, ordered a meal to go, and then taxied back to his plane. His passengers were not amused, and neither neither were his superiors, who sacked him for 'conduct 'conduct unbecoming' etc. But that's gotta be the that wedge of Styrofoam pie on his tray - I ask for that too. For two reasons:. Number one: I'm not fussy. From a reserved banquette - at a five star restaurant to a counter stool in a back alley beanery, I never met a meal I didn't like. Number two: I eat the airplane meal out of respect for technology. Are you kidding? I'm in a giant aluminum aluminum cigar tube, 36,000 feet in the air, going 400 miles an hour over the Rockies, the temperature outside is minus 40, I'm about to watch a movie AND I get a hot meal for free? Of course I take it. Even if I can't tell what the main course is trying to be. A hundred years ago the only way to get from Vancouver to Wyoming was on foot, swatting at black flies and gnawing on a chunk of frozen pemmi- can. I consider the preparation preparation and presentation of a cooked meal, complete with coffee and dessert, five miles straight up over Red Deer, Alberta to be an act of pure, unadulterated magic. And it's only the beginning! beginning! Aeronautics is an industry that grows in gallops. gallops. Yesterday, we were flying in propeller-driven planes with canvas wings. Today we can fly across the Atlantic in our shirtsleeves, sipping Bloody Mary's and watching Brad Pitt.. As for the future? Hey, it can only get better! I can visualize an aircraft about to take off a hundred years from now. Flight attendants are long gone, replaced by cheery and efficient robots that scuttle up and down the aisle.' The aircraft will be piloted by computers the sophistication of which we can't begin to imagine. The flight will take off so smoothly we won't even know we're in the air. Not until a comforting mechanical mechanical voice begs our attention attention and makes the standard in flight announcement: '"Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome aboard GatesAir flight 1798,. Our flying time to Rio de Janeiro will be precisely precisely 11 minutes and 29 seconds. In the meantime, relax and let our cyberstews cyberstews cater to your every whim. "And those of you who might be the slightest bit worried about flying with GatesAir (the world's first all mechanical airline) can relax in peace, knowing that this flight is absolutely free from the possibility of human error. Every detail of the flight - altitude, cabin pressure, course corrections, corrections, takeoff and landing - - is continuously monitored by state-of-the art computer circuitry, providing you with a worry-free flight, secure in the knowledge that absolutely nothing can - go wrong...go wrong...go wrong..." last word on airline food: so bad even the staff won't . eat it. Now. it must be said that, next to Revenue Canada and lawyers, dissing airline food is the cheapest laugh you can get. Everybody has a one-liner about those unidentifiable globs of gorp and. goo they serve on planes. Question: Why do they serve alcohol on airplanes? airplanes? Answer: So you won't mind the meal. Arf, arf. Well, as Sam Goldwyn said, include me out. I happen happen to - are you sitting down?, - like airplane food. When I'm flying from Vancouver to Sheep Butt, Wyoming and some smiling smiling stranger is kind enough to offer me a complimentary complimentary meal, I say "Sure! 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