Thursday, December 23, 2004

Flying a plane...

First time I touched a yoke was in a flight between Lima and Cuzco. After takeoff the captain announced his name, and my dad said, "hey that is a friend of mine!". Soon all siblings were inside the cockpit of the DC-8. This being Peru, we went a bit off course to get close to some Andean peaks, got to steer a bit while sitting on the capt's lap and of course landed in the cockpit.


This was the DC-8 that faucett used for inland flights. The company went bankrupt, after a series of accidents and financial troubles in the early 90s.

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