Yesterday, on the way home, there was a freak spring rainstorm. Out of that was a great rainbow. As we were on our way home, it even turned into a double rainbow. Here’s some pictures. The rest are on flickr.
We are such Hicks
Longest Flight?
Today on Fox News, I saw this article about the longest plane rides you can take today. Here’s the summary:
* United Airlines Flight 117/118 – Newark to Hong Kong (16 hours, 8,078 miles)
* Qantas Flight 7/8 – Sydney to Dallas (16 hours, 8,575 miles)
* Cathay Pacific Multiple Routes – Newark/New York to Hong Kong (16 hours, 5 minutes, 8,078 miles)
* South African Airways Flight 203/204 – Johannesburg to New York (16 hours, 15 minutes, 7,954 Miles)
* Qatar Airways Flight 77/78 – Doha to Houston (16 hours, 20 minutes, 8,016 miles)
That got me wondering about the longest flight I ever took. Turns out it was in 2007 when I flew from JFK to BKK on Thai Airways Flight 973. According to Wikipedia, that flight was 8,676 miles and scheduled for 17 hours. I remember it…we flew north out of JFK, almost over the Noth Pole, south over China (and some interesting deserts) then on to BKK.
I think the next runner-up was when we flew from Cairo to JFK on TWA in 1996 (I think). That was something like 14 hours/
How about you? What’s the longest flight you’ve ever been on?
Chartwell House
Yesterday we went to Chartwell. Chartwell was purchased by Winston Churchill in the 1920s. He lived there until he died in the 1960s. If you want to see all of the pictures we took, here’s the Chartwell set on flickr.