Caption competition Write an amusing caption for the picture above and, if you’re selected as our winner, you will receive £50. Image submissions can earn you £20 if they are used, so send your picture to TheLog@balpa.org How to enter Email your entry to TheLog@ balpa.org with the subject line ‘Caption competition’. Or send it to: ‘Caption competition’, The Log, BALPA House, 5 Heathrow Boulevard, 278 Bath Road, West Drayton, UB7 0DQ Closing date: 13th May 2019 Winner from last issue “I’m only the sergeant, the captain will know what to do!” Alan Murgatroyd Crossword When all the answers are in place, the letters in the squares across the top and bottom of the grid will spell out the name of a controversial aviation figure. ACROSS DOWN 7 Airport on the outskirts of Paris (2,7) 8 One who shows the way (5) 10 Mountain transport system that’s (6) suspended? (5,3) 11 South American country, capital (4,4) Georgetown (6) 12 Initially all regions in desert are this dry and barren (4) 13 Innovative airline service associated with the hidden person (8) 15 North American mountain range (7) 17 Against the law (7) 20 Words of an opera (8) 22 Quickly abstain from food? (4) 25 Country served by Taoyuan International Airport (6) 26 Of a man, stylish and charming (8) 27 Russian mountain range (5) 28 Capital of Mongolia (4,5) Crossword answers Winter 2019 4 A desert could become the most expensive (7) 5 Descriptive of items bought at an airport, perhaps (4-4) 6 Exactly the same (9) 9 Unpleasant in appearance (4) 14 Card game for one (9) 16 Chief town and airport of the Orkneys (8) 18 Intellectual and artistic district of Paris (4,4) 19 Venetian boat suspended beneath an airship? (7) 21 River in the city – Newcastle (4) 23 Fancy ice-cream dessert (6) 24 Part of a helmet that covers the face (5) Across: 1 Tiger Moth 8 Europe 9 Drones 12 Ibis 13 Strip 14 Area 17 Kremlin 18 Aviator 19 Hoisted 2 Ransack 24 Week 25 Guava 26 Arts 29 Nickel 30 Scarab 31 Jet-setter Down: 2 Iron 3 Everton 4 Madeira 5 Trot 6 Pumice 7 Beirut 10 Rickshaws 11 Marrakesh 15 Flute 16 Lions 20 Iberia 21 Douglas 22 Revisit 23 Abroad 27 Skye 28 Yale Imperial Airways 1 Wild, undomesticated (5) 2 Hair shaper producing a long wave? 3 Member of the Monty Python team TEA BREAK