On Mon, 9 Jun 2014 21:36:38 +0100, bert wrote:

As he accelerated away down the runway you could see two things,
one impressive - into the exhausts of the engines, the mouth of
Hell,
one less so - the huge plume of filth the thing chucked out the
back.

What makes you think that modern jets aren't shove out a huge plume
of filth? Just because you can't see it...

Fantastic plane. Flew back from Monaco Grand Prix from Nice - just
before it crashed. Same pilot.

Taking off was like riding down the runway on a rocket.

Sounds good, I hate flying in jumbos and the like, they just take far
too long trundling down the runway. Quite liked the Trislander, that
felt as if it went about 20 yds and then leapt into the sky. Proper
flying, fold down canvas seats, two per seat, everyone with a window,
pilot lines the passengers up on the tarmac and then loads you in to
keep the plane more or less in trim. B-) Hercules are good as well,
it gets noisy, it gets very noisey (you are issued with earplugs), it
stays noisey, it gets less noisy and lo you are somewhere else and
you can watch the control rods moving in the roof.

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Cheers
Dave.