From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <6.0.1.1.2.20040211113501.03a83a70@mail.village.com> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Wes Kussmaul Subject: Re: [9fans] London 9con? In-Reply-To: <00d401c3f0b9$e1837290$67844051@SOMA> References: <09EAD3D6-5B7C-11D8-B188-000A95E29604@nas.com> <20040210114516.GA6157@0xfe.org> <4029754B.1000905@ajft.org> <029a01c3f046$0e785550$67844051@SOMA> <20040211123202.15fbb225@garlic> <6.0.1.1.2.20040211095531.03a7cc18@mail.village.com> <00d401c3f0b9$e1837290$67844051@SOMA> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 11:43:27 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: de9242ae-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 At 11:12 AM 2/11/2004, Rambo wrote: > > In 1968 I flew with my wife and baby daughter on an Iranian Air Force >C-130 > > from Lajes Field in the Azores to Gander Air Force Base in Newfoundland. > >ouch!! It actually wasn't that bad. The hard part was turning back twice because of arctic storms at our destination before finally finishing the flight. It was December 23 and the Iranians were trying to figure out what was our big rush to get home when one of them exclaimed, "Oh yes, Christmas!"