Read e-book online With my head in the clouds

By Gwyn Mullett

great VC-10 G-ASGC, now preserved at Duxford Air Museum, hurtled around the North Atlantic at a velocity that used to be slightly under the utmost the airplane was once allowed. The Flight Engineer was once in his aspect and spent the evening fine-tuning the engines to maintain the rate spot on. After a short while the executive Steward got here onto the flight deck and introduced that the dinner carrier used to be entire and that the passengers have been now all bedded down for the evening.
“I am sorry to ruin your leisure holiday yet we'll be touchdown in exactly over hours,” I said.
“What are we flying? A bloody Concorde or anything! i'm going to need to wake them up for a whole English breakfast in a single hour,” he replied.
“Scrub the breakfast and provides them champagne for landing,” used to be my response.
We landed at Prestwick at the Scottish west coast after simply 5 hours and one minute from take-off at JFK. The scheduled time used to be six hours and twenty mins so this used to be a few fulfillment and to this present day hasn't ever been crushed by means of a scheduled aircraft.

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