Leaving On A Jet Plane.

(Have never taken so many flights or fly so far in a week. Think I'll stay away from aeroplanes for a while).

All my bags are packed I'm ready to go
I'm standin' here outside your door
I hate to wake you up to say goodbye
But the dawn is breakin' it's early morn
The taxi's waitin' he's blowin' his horn
Already I'm so lonesome I could die

So kiss me and smile for me
Tell me that you'll wait for me
Hold me like you'll never let me go
Cause I'm leavin' on a jet plane
Don't know when I'll be back again
Oh babe, I hate to go

- John Denver


I'm leaving on a jet plane
And I won't be returning on a slow boat.

- Ghostwise

~~~~~~~~~"

So we'll open the throttle and gather speed,
For an Airman's life is a life indeed,
As the engine roars away;
Gone are the cares of the earth below,
As up through a gap in the clouds we go,
With an ever-increasing sway.

- AC Kermode, in Mechanics of Flight, 1956


The one flying the plane
And the one sitting cramped inside
May have different feelings about the same flight.

- Ghostwise