re: #157 William Lewis

Take off and landing…

After I got out of the Active Army, I visited a friend living in Tokyo. I got to listen to Challenger blow up on AFN radio one night. Then later I took a two week side trip to Thailand and flew there on Egypt Air. Cheap but no booze, not even for us heathens. The flight back though… A nice new 757 and we’re coming into Narita airport over Tokyo Bay, coming in like a nearly perfect landing except we’re like 5 km short of the runway. The crew noticed before they gave the landing gear a bath and if you knew you could feel the power come back up, the aircraft attitude change as the stopped the decent and staggered the plane to the runway. I was really ready for a beer after that flight!

A beer?

More like a few shots of scotch.