From: "Mike Gammon" <jmgammon@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 10:46 PM > Personally, I feel much safer in a bird where, if s**t starts to happen, I > just find the nearest farmer's field and land :-) > When a Tower 747-100 (a really old one) took off from JFK on the way to Brazil the young women beside me groaned a little. When we started our second turn, she said "Oh, he's not going to turn again, is he?" I asked if she disliked flying. She replied she loved to fly, she had her own light single. There were just too many things to go wrong with all those engines on the jumbo for her taste. Gerry http://foley.ultinet.net/~gerry/aerial/aerial.html http://home.columbus.rr.com/gfoley http://members.fortunecity.com/gfoley/egypt/egypt.html