If I haven’t said it before, having a membership in an airline club is worth it’s weight in gold…
In this day and age of packed flights, delays, etc. That club membership CAN pay off multiple times over…
In the SYD lounge yesterday morning however, we almost had a riot…
Cherry and white chocolate muffins…
These damn things were like crack! People were standing there waiting, and you literally got one to a customer…
I was talking to my favorite moat dragon Anne and she said in her typical understated way, “Oh yes daarling, those are a mite tasty don’t you know.”
And then she got a big grin and said they were done by a little shop outside the field…
And there IS a reason for the seatbelt signs on airplanes as one young (and half drunk) lady found out yesterday coming back from SYD. She dislocated her shoulder when she got ‘bounced’ and ended up landing on it and popping it out. Three plus hours with only an aspirin and a sling didn’t feel too good and she was taken off in a wheelchair at LAX by paramedics, so maybe she’ll learn…
And the food was actually edible coming back. Guess United is listening to the bitching! 🙂 (unlike Qantas, which served ‘chicken’ on the flight from PER, but there was nothing in there ‘I’ recognized as actually being FROM a chicken)…
And one quick story as a follow-up from the P-8 demo and the climb attitude in the previous post…
At NAS Moffett, we had U-2s there that belonged to Ames Research. It was a competition between the pilots to see who could get to the highest altitude by the end of the runway…
Now two points of background, Moffett had 8000 runways, and the U-2s were always cleared unrestricted climb at roughly 85 degrees nose high…
If I remember correctly the ‘record’ was 20,000 by the end of the runway, thanks to a nice little headwind of about 25 kts… Personally I always wanted to drive the IROC Camaro convertible and chase the U-2 down the runway on landing to catch the wingtip… 🙂
