George Worsley Adamson
 
Illustrator and humorist

Illustrations by George Adamson published in British Airports World
Caption/description	Issue	Date	Size	Nature
Fears and fantasies of the first time flier by Colin Reid: 1) Turbulence! This is it, the end! (passengers looking bilious); 2) … peacefully down to earth (old lady wearing parachute); 3) … a change in the engine note (elderly man gripping his seat in terror); 4) security check, official with hand on end of stick for frisking	pp. 9, 10, 11	April 1979	1/2 page, 1/4 page, 1/6 page, 1/3 page	line & colour, first signed, others signed a
Year of the international child by Colin Reid: 1) baby on cloud; 2) excited 4-year-old; 3) baggage reclaim area with children arriving, Erewhon written on trolley; 4) child prodigy with glasses and a copy of the book Life Below the Tropopause	pp. 13, 13, 14-15, 15	Nov 1979	1/6 page, 1/6 page, dps, 1/6 page	line & colour, third signed, others signed a
The jet executive by Colin Reid: 1) ... a Niagara of cold water in the back of the neck (businessman in hotel shower with descending arrows); 2) ... the Ideal Flying Businessman ... how would he look? (row of business passengers with paragon seated in middle; 3) ... not only to say hello to their wives but to sing lullabies to their small children (wife and two children framed with hearts); 4) ... further announcements of further delays (‘Flight 273. Will passengers kindly wait until 10.30 hours tomorrow. In the meantime here is a lullaby’ (tired man wrapped up well and waiting wretchedly)	pp. 12, 13, 14, 14	April 1980	1/3 page, 1/2 page, 1/6 page, 1/6 page	line & colour, second signed, others signed a
A great psychological punch by Colin Reid: 1) Air stewardesses floating by; 2) The smiling, solicitous attention of those lovely girls (pin-striped man being served drink by glamorous stewardess; 3) Romeos … some of them will try anything (businessman with dazzling lady's jewellery in his lap); 4) If the girls get overweight, they are ordered to diet (stewardess dining with man, latter tucking in, she hardly eating at all)	pp. 18-19, 20, 20, 21	Nov 1980	dps, 1/3 page, 1/3 page, 1/2 page	line & colour, first signed, others signed a
Stop the plane -- I want to get off by Colin Reid: 1) ‘... in some emergencies, trained air crewmen have actually been sick’ (bilious-faced official running from plane); 2) scene in cockpit simulator with trainee pilot making a bad landing; 3) ‘ a piece of microchip wizardry’ (captain as wizard waving wand)	pp. 16, 17, 18	May 1981	1/4 page, 1/2 page, 1/4 page	line & colour, second signed, others signed a
How to be unmemorable by Katherine Whitehorn: cows, fish and day beds: Katherine Whitehorn draws on her experience as a seasoned traveller -- and a former BAA board member -- to prescribe the Ideal Airport. But would anybody remember perfection? 1) ‘Two Indians and a canoe to get there’: passenger in canoe with two Indians reaching a very remote-looking Mirabel airport, Montreal; 2) ‘Now lie in your Day bed-Buggy. It will signal you 15 minutes before proceeding to your flight bay (two children in bed-buggy. Officials at booking desk are various animals); 3) ‘Slumped against the check-in desks wanting to be swept up by the cleaners’ (cleaner lifting legs of sleeping passenger to sweep under seat); 4) ‘Feeling like Marco Polo, not just like someone who’d been suckered’ (Marco Polo in his pointed hat with duty-free goods, tossing a Rubik cube)	pp. 8, 9-10, 10, 10	Nov 1981	1/6 page, dps, 1/3 page. 1/6 page	line & colour, second signed, others unsigned
Top of the stops by Dominic Leahy: 1) ‘... 40 metres of counter but only one check-in clerk’ (man checking in art exotic hotel desk); 2) ‘... a crocodile enjoying a warm morning swim’ (man coming out of hotel pool in Ethiopia unaware of crocodile surfacing in pool just behind him; 3) ‘... elderly Chinese waiters brought cold beers on wobbly trays’ (two waiters and ceiling fan at hotel in Malaysia)	pp. 15, 16, 17	May 1982	1/6 page, 1/2 page, 1/6 page	line & colour, first two signed, third unsigned
Making a meal of it by Colin Reid: 1) ‘... with the co-pilot serving coffee and sandwiches on early passenger flights.’ (pilot in flying gear and goggles pours coffee for a pretty young woman); 2) Chefs floating round airborne airliner bringing food, drink and other supplies; 3) ‘... and where there is no menu choice, they must supply a different meal for the captain.’ (German waitress in traditional costume serving platter piled high with food to eager captain wearing napkin as a bib, captain served differently to avoid risk of all the crew going down with food poisoning)	pp. 8, 9, 10	Nov 1982	1/4 page, 1/2 page, 1/3 page	line & colour, second signed, others signed a
Reid all about it! Dog shows, surveillance equipment, travel features and celebrities ... the in-flight magazine has to cater for everyone. Colin Reid takes a slice of printer’s pie in the sky: 1) ‘... only wish to use it as a fan ...’ (smart lady passenger cooling herself with in-flight magazine); 2) ‘So what are all these jetting executives reading when their heads are not in their bomb-sniffing briefcases?’ (row of passengers reading the magazine with what they are reading about shown in 3D before them); 3) ‘The jetting executive is wooed everywhere’ (man on cloud reading Leading Edge; 4) ‘... this distraught girl phoning from an Athens call box.’ (girl in small glass fluted classical column as telephone booth)	pp. 16, 17, 18, 18	April 1983	1/6 page, 1/2 page, 1/4 page, 1/6 page	line & colour, second signed, others signed a
Cows don’t fly Colin Reid looks into HeavyLift, Britain’s leading specialist in outsize and unusual cargo. It is, he says, ‘a shrimp’s eye view into the belly of a whale.’: 1) Jonah being ejected by whale; 2) ‘... will give a clearance no less than one millimetre’ (man at computer terminal staring at screen); 3) HeavyLift airliner to the rescue with spares and rescue teams, cowboy and cow about to baord plane and to the left a fantastical ship with captain at the bows with intercom	pp. 11, 12, 12-13	Dec 1983	1/2 page, 1/4 page, dps	line & colour, third signed, others signed a

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