Originally Posted by Swanhunter
The novelty of backtracking was followed by the four hairdryers on the A340 strolling us down the runway past a few rotting Air India hulks and into the skies over Vile Parle (genius name for a suburb).
The hairdryers bore us aloft at a stately pace, giving me plenty of chance to take in the cabin surroundings.
Swanhunter, I laughed at your description of the A340's powerplants as hairdryers. My experience of this plane has been some rather nerve-wracking take-off's at FCO on CX fully laden, as well as once from HKG to AKL where I really thought we were going to run out of runway!