...mmmm.....well I made it ...and got back OK BUT NOT without incident I can say.
..........arrived at "Robin Hood" two hours before scheduled take off time to find "our" plane already at the gate and getting the treatment ready for the trip..
GREAT you might think...........NOT GREAT, as a quick check of the departures board informed me that a one hour delay was already on the board........UGH!
Still that gave plenty of time to suss the place out and I felt it was pretty good for starters and lots of room to grow.
Time to board at last....GREAT....taxi to the active and a sweet takeoff..........Jersey here we come.....
...mmm....suspect we are not climbing as one should for a 737 but at least we are airborne.....
NOT for long.....captain says "sorry lads we are off back to Donny".............land 25 minutes later to be met by the firefighters et al and as a quick look revealed the undercarriage needed major repairs we had to get our asses off the damned thing...............
.......to cut a long story short the powers that be nicked a plane from under the noses of passengers bound for Prague and we were quickly boarded before they could get their vengeful little hands on us........phew.
Three hours delay plus two hours we were at the airport early plus an hour and ten minutes flight time, all added up to a jolly spiffing time...............
........I HATE FLYING............commoner.
...managed to catch sight of the airfied after the second take off which was a little bonus...............
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is."
