On a commercial flight, the benefit of sitting next to a peacock outweighs the drawbacks. During a midair emergency I plan to grab anything with wings that might provides extra lift.
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Good plan 🙂
Thanks, Julie. Any port in a storm. Only in an airplane. And not so much a port as a landing field. And not just storms but a variety of challenging weather patterns.
OK, I’m losing control of the metaphor. But thanks for reading! dj