Even in a Mighty Metro would you really be preparing to take off into a storm like that?
Worse has been known to happen...!
During a nasty nasty storm not so long ago there was a power outage (on the ground that is...), so there was nothing much to do but sit around and watch the storm. Watched as lighting struck the airfield, then less than 5 sec later a Chieftain took off into the grey soup
