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...glad to be out of the truck, neglecting to mention the most recent bout of nausea and accompanying thoughts of "What am I doing?!" But as he spread out the parachute and we attached our harnesses, and the chute filled with air and jerked us even higher than our take-off point, thoughts of plummeting to my death were replaced by the pleasant sensation of floating through the sky. The 30-minute flight down to the beach was like viewing the world from the window-seat of a plane, only better. Eric even let me take off my helmet...
...think we all agree that it's an interesting take-off of what was already established. What these guys are the bastard children of Axl Rose, taking his worst elements. They're cool bands and they control a different influence and create a really macho industry. I think, however, that they are typical and boring of that macho idea...
...that curtain is seated the privileged few; the mile-high club, as it were. Depending on your fluency in doublespeak, they may be First Class citizens of the airplane; they may be BusinessFirst(tm). Regardless, the curtain makes my economy seat seem somehow unchaste. For them, drinks before take-off, and service anytime, even when the fasten-seatbelt sign is illuminated by Der Fuhrer in the cockpit. For me, a sip of air conditioning refuse at the whim of the machine...
When he reached the check-in gate approximately 25 minutes before the scheduled take-off, Averell was "summarily told that his seat had been given away," Cronan continued. "They told him that the best they could do would be to seat him standby on Thanksgiving...
What happened over the next hour or so--between the time the plane last made contact with the runway and the time it first made contact with water--is, for now, a matter of conjecture. The take-off, to all appearances, was a smooth one, suggesting that Kennedy's still shaky ankle did not hamper his ability to operate the Piper's pedals. Much of the flight may have been similarly uneventful, if the sketchy radar record is any indication...