* * * * * As I was completing my third year on the Boeing 707, SAUDIA informed me that I was the recipient of an unbelievable piece of luck. I was ordered to report to the TWA Training Center in New York, during the second week of February, 1983, for first officer (co-pilot) training on the Boeing 747! Honest to Christ, dear reader, I had to pinch myself when I found the company’s directive in my mailbox. Currently the 747 was the biggest airliner in the world! Totally unattainable for a ragged-assed helicopter pilot to ever be checked out in! Immediately I flashed back to 30 th October, 1970, when I flew a sheriff’s helicopter alongside San Francisco International, and drooled o...