BahrainLad, I thought you were in Bahrain. Glad you are fine.
Read your piece and relived those days. What a wonderful machine that was. Too bad it went the dinosaur way.
Used to sit in the front. Sometimes my sister would take it from London and me from Paris and we'd wonder who'd arrive first. Or one would go normal and the other taking the queen of the skies... fun times, miss them.