> > Flying, they say, is long hours of boredom
> interrupted by moments of stark terror.
>
> I thought that's what they say about warfare.
> I've flown commercially quite a bit (although
> certainly not as much as Howard, I'm sure)
> and I've never experienced even a
> microsecond of stark terror.
>
> Gri"driving can be that way"shny


Last spring, i got to tour Turkey with a history professor from my college. The smallest plane we flew on was (if memory serves correctly) a 727, and that landing was quite reminiscent of roller coasters i've ridden in a Six Flags theme park. It was a serious holding-my-breath-because-this-feels-like-we're-gonna-run-out-of-runway moment.

The scary thing is, i enjoyed it a whole lot. I was disappointed at how smoothly those 737s and 767s landed.

Penny *not really sure WHAT that says about me* stamp