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Old Dec 28, 2016 | 5:46 pm
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chucko
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Originally Posted by florens
Worst I had was during the approach into FAE (Vagar on Faroe Islands)!
The Faroe Islands football team consider that part of their home-pitch advantage when hosting visiting teams.

I still remember getting bounced around for a couple of hours on a PA 747SP on a SYD to LAX run in 1984, when we caught some kink in the jet stream at 41,000 feet. Even the cabin crew were shaken, and they'd been around.

The other was on a C-130 from Kodiak to St. Paul (in the middle of the Bering Sea), but that was asking for it - hitching a ride on a fisheries patrol that flew about 500 feet up in the middle of a very nasty storm. Popping Dramamine like they were breath mints.
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