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Originally Posted by Chimaera
I have flown - twice - and managed not to get hysterical although it was a near thing. It's not the flying that bothers me particularly (ok well it does then!) but actually SEEING a plane flying past and having to get close to one - I'm sitting here now on the verge of panic just thinking about it! 
When I went to Cyprus a few years back we had to walk across the tarmac to the plane - I had to be carried inside!  |
Ah Chimaera hun.
Good thing you've never flownin the back of an RAF 'Fat Albert' then, when they make a tactical landing. I remember the landing in Sarajevo airport, when I was on UN duties there. Power on steep decent (about 30 or 40 deg. decent, doing 200-205 knots) on short final, then slapping the C-130 into the tarmac doing about 160-180 knots, and then throwing all four engines into reverse and braking HARD. Ended up with all sorts of kit flying around the cargo hold. Ouch. I swear we didnt land, we crashed.
