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Mike_P

Guru
Location
Harrogate
Oh LBA, how I miss you? I spent about 5 years commuting in and out.
Alternating between Schiphol and Frankfurt, usually west from Schiphol and East from Frankfurt.
You were never home until you actually got on ground at LBA
Only place I've ever been really anxious on landing. Daft place to build an airport. Couldn't decide what was worse, fog, snow or wind.

Stories abound of planes diverting not because of the landing but rather the planes crew adraid they would not be able to take off subsequently.
Another kitchen disaster late last night. Wrnt to retrieve a mug and it caught an overlarge dinber plate. Two plates and two cups broke. Tape measure to be put in use buying new dinner plates to ensure they are of a cupboard freindly size.
 

Gwylan

Guru
Location
All at sea⛵
Stories abound of planes diverting not because of the landing but rather the planes crew adraid they would not be able to take off subsequently.
Another kitchen disaster late last night. Wrnt to retrieve a mug and it caught an overlarge dinber plate. Two plates and two cups broke. Tape measure to be put in use buying new dinner plates to ensure they are of a cupboard freindly size.

I can imagine that. One foggy morning the pilot announced that ground control claimed to see him through the murk. His reply was that he couldn't see them so we were off to Teeside and a bus ride.

It was a joke that when they started mowing the grass every week was when they called it LBA International.

Oh dear for the plates.

Is the Chevin Lodge still there?
 

Jenkins

Legendary Member
Location
Felixstowe
Good morning from an 8th floor hotel room in damp and drizzly Sheffield. Today's view is of an ugly office block.

Breakfast has been had and enjoyed so I've got about half an hour to rest and let it settle before heading off to the train station for the trip southbound to Brighton. Should be a quieter evening than yesterday.
 
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