Thursday, March 24, 2011

Yakolev Yak-42D


My choice for flying to Cuba was Cubana airways. Plane was of course old Soviet time high tech. Russians know how to build stuff that may not be pretty but definately works. One advantages of old fool proof technique is that you can use cellphone whenever you want as there are no such electronic devices on board that might get compromised. To make sure everybody gets humble enough towards this fine piece of engineering, the door of the aeroplane is so small that you have bend over when entering the plane.

I could see bit if worrying faces from people entering the plane when Russian signs welcomed them on board. To be honest, there was a moment when I started to get bit nervous when plane started to fill with smoke. Luckily Stuarts walked around the plane comforting passengers: "Normal, normal". Cold breeze that I felt calmed me down quickly, must be just air conditioning starting.

While thick smog filled cabin slowly, it actually was so thick that if you bend over you could not see anything, people started to get really worried but rum served on plane seemed to calm down most people.

When we reached ground at Jose Marti airport, everybody seemed to be genuinely happy making the rocky ride safely.

4 comments:

  1. Enjoying the update. Those pesky capitalists don't understand the functionality of nuclear proof airplanes.

    On another note, please remember the word 'the'. It helps most of your sentences ;)

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  2. oh man.... i can barely make it through a flight with aer lingus, sas or ryanair without having a couple dozen heart attacks and panic attacks, don't think i'll be flying with cubana airways ever! thank god you made it back and forth in one piece!

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  3. You and your weird language Ken...

    Too bad that they did not have frequent flyer program.

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  4. RIP players and personnel of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl

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