Caption competition Write an amusing caption for the picture, right, 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 by 3rd February 2020. Winner from last issue “See that chaps, the poor bugger’s only got one wing.” Mike Harvey Runner up “I say Nigel, this deconfliction service isn’t very good, is it?” Tom Gale Crossword When all the answers are in place, the letters in squares 9 to 18 will spell out a person’s name, then the letters in the even-numbered squares from 20 to 32 will spell out a city served by an airport named after that person. Simply print out to play! ACROSS DOWN 1 Instrumentindicatingan aircraft’s height (9) 6 Propelthroughtheair(5) 9 Eatgreedily–Cheddar?(5) 10 Heading from the USA to the UK, 1 Prefix meaning ‘English’ (5) 2 Jet engine with propellers turned by a turbine (9) 3 Encounter (4) 4 Unusually they rap this kind of treatment for example (9) (7) 11 Wind instrument (4) 12 Flyer is partially contravening (5) 13 Actors Messrs Kelly or Hackman (4) 16 Ethelred the ___, 10th-century English King (7) 17 Broke into pieces – had mess, perhaps (7) 19 Thomas ___, pioneering aircraft designer of the Camel (7) 21 Meg Ryan resettled here in Europe? (7) 22 Propellers dipped in the river? (4) 24 Normal, customary (5) 25 A record, heading south for the mountains (4) 29 Atmospheric electrical discharge (9) 30 Part of the body often seen in church? (5) 31 Epsom horse race (5) 32 English airport with the IATA code NCL (9) Crossword answers Autumn 2019 5 Lists showing turns of duty (7) 6 Hinged parts of an aircraft control surface (4) 7 Course of a journey (5) 8 Maybe we’d say end in the middle of the week (9) 14 Opposite of take away? (3,2) 15 Iraqi city and main port (5) 16 Natural, not marred by development (9) 18 Adjust high LED at front of car to form this? (9) 20 Coarse sacking material (7) 21 City served by Prestwick Airport (7) 23 ‘Message received’ (5) 26 Sight or touch, for example (5) 27 Remain (4) 28 Ancient Roman garment (4) Across: 9 Liverpool 10 Obama 11 Pianist 12 Igneous 13 Pair 14 Burgeoning 17 Tankers 18 Ali Baba 20 High Street 23 Fred 25 Landing 26 Astaire 28 Speke 29 Ridiculed. Down: 1 Flap 2 Aviation 3 Orbit 4 Contours 5 Flying 6 Down to Rio 7 Napoli 8 Maps 13 Pitch 15 Guard 16 Perspires 18 Adelaide 19 Airfield 21 Ginger 22 Rogers 24 Stick 25 Less 27 Eddy. Flying Down to Rio; Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers TEA BREAK