Lou---

You ARE indeed Da Man! These stories are great and bring back so many memories of riding 727s out/in the old DEN Stapleton.

This one reminds me of those winter flights in the 60s where I would look out the windows of the terminal, watching the snow/sleet, and pray they would cancel the flight!! Airplanes were de-iced at the gate and some times had to return and be de-iced a second time. Woe is me! I really don't want to do this! I remember one UA 727 flt where we got to the gate at ORD and we couldn't de-plane because the door was frozen shut!

I remember one time returning to DEN from CVG via STL on a TWA C-880 in a massive snow storm. Throughout the entire flt I watched a group of 4 loose rivets on the starboard wing, just outside my window, that were popped up and waving around! I pointed them out to a stew and she shrugged it off. Man, was I glad to get off that thing!

Btw, are you thinking at all about attending the AVSIM FANCON thing at IAD in October?

Bruce