Have you ever taken off from the airport in the Azores?
I use to fly back and forth in the US Navy when we changed blue crew for the gold crew on a FBM submarine. We were stationed out of Rota, Spain.
We would fly from Spain to Rhode Island, but if the DC super 8 didn't have enough fuel we would land in Goose Bay Harbor, Newfoundland on the way for more fuel.
This particular trip they landed in the Azores first to keep from having to land in Newfoundland.
Nice little airport the people all looked at us funny in our dress blues, but we boarded the plane again to take off. I was on the window side just looking down at the run way as we took off. I didn't feel any lift of the plane or anything and all of a sudden I'm looking at the clifts and the Atlantic Ocean.
It's just the top of a mountain and we were air born ... Scared me for sure.
