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Flight 141
arm doors and cross check,
the safety demo and video,
then we taxi bumpily
down towards the runway,
we straighten up,
with a quick thrust and
loud roaring of the engines
we hurtle down the runway,
beads of water run diagonally
down the window
very quickly we leave terra firma
and are propelled into the sky
we climb and climb
and are soon above the clouds
the bumps of the runway
have been replaced
by gentle turbulence
I look downwards
towards a distant landscape
but soon see only clouds
My journey has indeed begun.
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