![]() ![]() The Hustle’s story walks through Nesmith Graham’s life: her humble roots growing up near Dallas, a short-lived marriage, and her struggles as a working single mother (her son Michael would grow up to be a member of The Monkees). As this piece in The Hustle explains, it was her flair for marketing. ![]() But it wasn’t the invention of the substance that was Nesmith Graham’s real genius. ![]() The solution could blot over typewriter mistakes and dry quickly, allowing for fast changes. In her Richardson garage, Nesmith Graham mixed a concoction consisting largely of white tempura paint. Her name was Bette Nesmith - later Bette Nesmith Graham - a single mom who, in 1956, tried to find a simple way to make her life at work easier. It has to do with Liquid Paper and the Dallas secretary who invented it. The deterrant to fraud is integrity, not a ban on tinted tempera paint.Spoiler alert: the contents of this blog post will answer one of the trivia questions in the May edition of D Magazine. We no longer need use tablets of stone and chisels. Does that make the computer logbook illegal or less desirable? I would say not. True, and the computer-generated logbook is far easier. Ahh, but the "strike out" method is more difficult, you say. Mind you, the "strike out" method can also be used to alter and falsify the record. It can be used to alter items of information, just as easily as it can be used to correct mistakes. Now, you might raise the objection that one might use "White Out" to alter the logbook in a way that will falsify the experience and training represented. Her simple invention, basically a tempera paint to match the color of the paper, did nothing less than revolutionize the error correction world.Ĭan her product, or one similar, meet the same standard for the record of training and experience of "neat and legible" that the age-old method of "strike out and initial" has provided? I submit the answer is a whole-hearted "Yes!". Of course, this method was employed long before Bette Nesmith Graham used her kitchen blender to create a concoction to correct typing errors. This method has been in use for documents such as a pilot logbook long before airplanes were invented, and as such, is widely accepted. A common convention for making corrections to errors in logging that meets the common sense test of "neat and legible" is the strikeout method you've described. It could be permanent ink, or even erasable ink.Ĭommon sense dictates that the record be neat and legible, even though the only actual requirement for "legible" is the instructor's endorsement for training time. It could be a black Bic pen, or a purple Pilot, or a pink Papermate, it could be a fountain pen or a quill pen, it could be ballpoint, ink gel, or india ink, or it could be #2 pencil lead. It may be typed, computer printed by dot-matrix impact, inkjet, or laser, or even hand-written, in pencil, ink, or crayon. The record may be kept on paper of any color, shape, or size, and it may be bound or loose-leaf. Such a method might present a problem when a reasonable request is made by the Administrator to present that logbook. The object is to document those things that must be documented, and present them for examination or inspection when required.Īs you suggested, the record may be kept on a collection of cocktail napkins. In my opinion, correction fluid serves the same purpose in an equally valid way. Your convention insists on a ballpoint pen (I really think you'd allow Papermate, too ) and prohibits correction fluid. The issue, then, becomes how do we correct those errors. Consequently, we should all deal with the realistic proposition that we'll likely make an error in record-keeping somewhere along the way. I haven't found, thankfully, a Federal requirement for pilots to be perfect, flawless, and mistake-free. Finally, it describes a requirement to present or carry the logbook under specific circumstances. What is does say is that one must "document and record" the "training and aeronautical experience" required for a "certificate, rating, or flight review" and the "aeronautical experience" required for "recent flight experience." It also describes specific items of information that must be recorded in order to meet the training time and aeronautical experience requirements. ![]() I can't seem to find the part where it says one must "keep a record," though. Well, it seems that there is a regulation regulating pilot logbooks after all. #WHITE OUT LIQUID PAPER CODE#Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations. ![]()
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