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To qualify to fly armed, unless otherwise authorized by TSA, federal regulation states that a law enforcement officer must meet all of the following requirements:

• Be a federal law enforcement officer or a full-time municipal, county, state, tribal or territorial law enforcement officer who is a direct government agency employee.
• Be sworn and commissioned to enforce criminal or immigration statutes.
• Be authorized by the employing agency to have the weapon in connection with assigned duties.
• Have completed the TSA Law Enforcement Officer Flying Armed Training Course.

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In addition to the above requirements, municipal, county, state, tribal, or territorial officers must present an operational need to have the weapon accessible from the time he or she would otherwise check the weapon, until the time it would be claimed after deplaning. The need to have the weapon accessible aboard the aircraft must be determined by the employing agency and based on one of the following:

• Assigned to a protective duty as a principal or advance team, or on travel required to be prepared to engage in a protective function.
• Conducting a hazardous surveillance operation.
• On official travel with a requirement to report to another location armed and prepared for duty immediately upon landing.
• Control of a prisoner, or on a round trip ticket returning from escorting or traveling to pick up a prisoner.
• Employed as a federal law enforcement officer, whether or not on official travel, and traveling armed in accordance with the policies or directives of the employing agency.

Common examples of travel that does not meet the threshold for carriage of accessible weapons are:

• Individuals possessing the status of a retired, contract, reserve, auxiliary or annuitant law enforcement personnel.
• Law enforcement officers who have not been granted general arrest authority and/or are limited specifically to governmental facilities.
• Any law enforcement officer who is employed by a department, agency or service that is not fully taxpayer funded.
• Attendance of non-operational or enforcement related activities (e.g., training, conferences, police week, memorial services, personal travel, etc.).

Training Program

For efficiency purposes, TSA continues to enhance its methodology to process and account for flying armed training requests. Law enforcement agencies with an operational need to fly armed must select a single instructor/point-of-contact to request the training material. This point-of-contact must request the training material to instruct the law enforcement officers within their agency who meet federal regulations to fly armed by completing the fillable form provided at the link below.

To request the training material, the instructor/point-of-contact must:

• Be a full-time law enforcement officer meeting the instructor qualification standards of their agency.
• Click on the below Request Training Materials icon and complete all required information.
• Send the request from a government email.

State, local, territorial, tribal and approved railroad law enforcement officers flying armed must submit a National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System message at least 24 hours prior to travel. More information on this procedure is contained in the training program.

'Flying' is an instrumental recorded by the English rock band the Beatles which first appeared on the 1967 Magical Mystery Tour release (two EP discs in the United Kingdom, an LP in the United States). It is one of the few songs credited to all four members of the band: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.

Origins[edit]

The first instrumental written by the Beatles since '12-Bar Original' in 1965, this was also the first song to be credited as being written by all four members of the band with the writing credits of 'Harrison/Lennon–McCartney/Starkey'. ^[1] Like '12-Bar Original,' it was based on the classic twelve-bar blues chord progression.

'Flying' was recorded on 8 September 1967 with mellotron, guitar, bass, maracas, drums, and tape loops overdubs on 28 September under its original title of 'Aerial Tour Instrumental.' The end of the recording originally included a fast-paced traditional New Orleans jazz-influenced coda, but this was removed and replaced with an ending featuring tape loops created by John Lennon and Ringo Starr during the 28 September session. The loops extended the song to 9 minutes 38 seconds, but the track was cut down to only 2 minutes 17 seconds. Part of the loops were used alongside an element of the ending jazz sequence to make 'The Bus', an incidental piece used at various points in the TV movie.

Recording[edit]

On the track, as recorded and officially released, Lennon plays the main theme on mellotron, accompanied by McCartney and Harrison (both on guitars, plus a later McCartney bass overdub) and Starr (on maracas and drums). All four Beatles sing the melody without lyrics of any kind, and the track fades in an assortment of tape effects created by Lennon and Starr. This released version is identical to that heard on the soundtrack of the Magical Mystery Tour film; the music is accompanied in the film by color-altered images of landscape in Iceland taken from an aeroplane, as well as some unused footage from the 1964 Stanley Kubrick film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

A different version can be found on some Beatles bootleg albums (such as Back-track 1), and features added Hammond organ and strange whistling noises in the early parts of the track. The jazz-influenced ending is also present on this version, which is slightly shorter, clocking in at around 2:08. This coda, which Mark Lewisohn speculated was 'seemingly copied straight from an unidentifiable modern jazz record',^[1] was in fact played on a mellotron. (In addition to the familiar samples of instruments playing single notes, mellotrons had entire banks of a pop orchestra playing popular styles of music, with optional accompaniment. The piece here was played with the Dixieland Rhythm Mellotron setting.^[2])

Reception[edit]

Richard Goldstein of The New York Times believed that the track, 'as instrumental interlude, is more interesting, if only because it is more modest [than the rest of the album]'.^[3]Robert Christgau said that the track was 'just a cut above Paul Mauriat, not bad but not Our Boys'.^[4]Rex Reed, in a highly unfavourable review of the album for Stereo Review, said that it 'sounds like the soundtrack of an old Maria Montez jungle movie at just about the point where she feeds the chanting populace to the cobras'.^[5]

Cover versions[edit]

Japanese progressive rock band Yonin Bayashi covered 'Flying' for their 1976 album Golden Picnics.

In 1977, the Residents covered 'Flying' on the Residents Play the Beatles side of their The Beatles Play the Residents and the Residents Play the Beatles single release. The single is now fairly difficult to obtain, although the track can be found on the discontinued CD release of The Third Reich 'n Roll as a bonus track.

Shockabilly included a cover of 'Flying' for their 1984 album Vietnam.

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The Secret Machines also covered it for the film Across the Universe.

Mark Wood (Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Mark Wood Experience, Electrify Your Strings) covered 'Flying' on his album Sanctuary. It is also included on his album These Are A Few Of My Favorite Things.

Personnel[edit]

• John Lennon – wordless vocals, Mellotron, Hammond organ, sound effects
• Paul McCartney – wordless vocals, bass, guitar
• George Harrison – wordless vocals, guitar
• Ringo Starr – wordless vocals, drums, maracas, sound effects

Notes[edit]

1. ^ ^abcLewisohn 1988, p. 123.
2. ^Mike Pinder Presents Mellotron Samples.
3. ^Goldstein, Richard (31 December 1967). 'Are the Beatles Waning?'. The New York Times. p. 62.
4. ^Christgau, Robert (May 1968). 'Columns: Dylan-Beatles-Stones-Donovan-Who, Dionne Warwick and Dusty Springfield, John Fred, California'. robertchristgau.com. Archived from the original on 29 June 2015. Retrieved 22 June 2015.
5. ^Popular Discs and Tapes, Stereo Review, March 1968, p. 117.

References[edit]

• Lewisohn, Mark (1988). The Beatles Recording Sessions. New York: Harmony Books. ISBN0-517-57066-1.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

External links[edit]

• Alan W. Pollack's Notes on 'Flying'