Do you have a particularly memorable flight?

[justapax]

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My most memorable flight was LHR to South Pole (there were a few stops on the way) carrying scientific experiments which cost the taxpayers of several countries a few pence on their tax bills but amounted to tens of millions. To bundle in a physicist who could talk to the captain about a load which broke just about every rule of air cargo (radioactive, explosive components) and the loadmaster (fragile as a butterfly's wing) was a trivial cost compared with the cargo I was responsible for.

The runway at South Pole is compacted snow, the captain has to be specially trained to land with only reverse thrust, no brakes. Quite a lot of Canadian and Alaskan pilots are. As a passenger, it seemed pretty hairy to me. I'm used to LHR or DUB being closed by a sprinkling of snow.

South Pole is 2km vertically of ice from earth, ground, deck, call it what you like. Many scientific experiments have been ruined because a solar event has changed the potential to earth, by sometimes hundreds of volts, in seconds. It's only because of total attention to safety that there hasn't been a spark between a re-fuelling aircraft and the bowser.

Any special flights, people?