----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Hough" <psa188@xxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2005 8:59 PM <snip> >...the tarmac at Le Bourget, north of Paris.... I flew out of Le Bourget in 1976, not long before it closed to airline flights. It had the smoothest taxiways and runways I have ever been on. It was my first flight in a 737, of Aer Lingus. The takeoff was delayed for quite a while until they put three men ( passengers, I think) on the flight deck. Gerry http://www.pbase.com/gfoley9999/ http://foley.ultinet.net/~gerry/aerial/aerial.html http://home.columbus.rr.com/gfoley http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/pollock/263/egypt/egypt.html