i didn't get to it until last night just as my wife was putting the kids to bed every ticket is cleared air giving a complete picture at all times ten minutes after you've ordered your to get your name was on his correct flight listing you were already called by your ticket two days later at our los angeles all together pretty on your departure day you checked in at the airport everything with your luggage checked the boy you're traveling comfort in the hands of a smooth working teen that's a fine that constellation the way they build or a blockade aircraft in burbank california using the engineering and production techniques that have made us successful in aviation a constellation is very costly before we ever see or he's put through a series of exhaustive tests every part of our nose to tail gets this treatment reason is a word we live in the airline business that word is safety your pilot and i were old friends after a couple of hours aloft you had luncheon and i think you'll agree with me that the meal compared very favorably well that's a good restaurant  we take three physical examinations to government one company and this constant checking up goes for training once you get started it never stops every six months we get an instrument  the flight engineer and our hostesses to good girls so much for us now while you were flying targets by los angeles here's what we were doing in kansas city my copilot and i checked in a flight control operations we talked over new york weather eight hundred with a chance but only a next meteorology weather forecast our company was the first to employ staff meteorologists and we listened to what they say every time we fly the chief gave us the weather forecast which he gets from the government o my copilot got busy with his booking our fuel order a lot of the four thousand gallons enough to fly from kansas city down the arc and back again we burn about a gallon a mile five gallons  meanwhile our flight engineer checked over the airplane this is standard procedure first because he's trained to do the job second because it's good practice to have it done by a man who is going to write the airplane follow the like doctors they know where to look and this check up takes place every time one of our planes gets ready for  i wish you and all the other people who fly regularly could see this operation because it typifies the kind of attention a scheduled airline like ours gives its airplanes first thing we do a plane once he comes in it's a remove our engines and t next each participant through a magnetic analysis to find any in all of the metal then a hand inspected against rigid tolerances some of the parts are ok good as new others may require reconditioning in our shops and still others may be replaced after a thorough check by a trained inspector and usually assembled engineers run for six hours on a  base class the airplanes radio equipment every bit of it also rips out our entire electrical system and rebuilding relieve polish and inspect the propellers to every three thousand hours we get our news that the balance of these blades is so perfect that believe it or not the weight of a paper much box will make them  continuing maintenance means that a job like this operation which takes forty five hundred man hours and they done in six days last thing we do is a way that you are planes must stay within one half of one percent of their original w you remember we taxied past the tower working with our real traffic control they clear my plight blab and keep checking my progress all along the line we moved on to the warm up block i suppose you'll wonder why there's always a delay before takeoff here's what's going on up front