Mysteries of Flight
Dave, thanks for the inspiration from Amos. Similar flavour to what we got in Perth. Now you must do the same with Joel for me (I will need boosting for when I front up to the ladies' leaders mtg Monday week - musn't let the side down!!). Carol, thanks for your comments, encouraging as always!
My only inspiration is about the mysteries of flight - it's 100 years since the Wright brothers, isn't it? Yet we can still be truly amazed over some of the lingering mysteries of flying. Like my amazement on the Lauda flight which landed me in Vienna an hour late at 7 am this morning (it was 41 degC on Saturday when I left Melb, and a relatively mild 4 degC in Vienna - but at least the sun's shining). Actually, my amazement was caused by the map of our flight path which showed the plane leaving Melbourne and heading off on a path for Alice Springs then on to Vienna. And a handful of other cities were marked on the map for orientation purposes, including Geelong, Wagga Wagga and Canberra. And in the big blank space to the east of Melbourne, there was one town alone worthy of being labelled on such a big-picture plot of our path to the other side of the world. Yep, Moe got a gurnsey! The town where the height of fashion is to shop in Safeway wearing one's bedroom moccasins. This is one mystery of flight that probably won't be explained even given another hundred years!
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