Only 8 pilots are qualified to land on this "terrifying" runway

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Flight over active Hawaii volcano

I have just had some 8 mm movies from the 1970's transfered to DVD.

My wife and I were on vacation on Maui when the volcano erupted.

We rented a two-engine Cessna at the Maui airport in order to fly over the volcano at night.

As we flew to the Big Island of Hawaii, the sun set and when we reached the  volcano it was total darkness. We began circling the volcano and viewing all the lava flows.

The closer we got to the fire crater, the more the plane was tossed around by the heat currents.

We kept getting lower in altitude as we circled starting about 5,000 ft. down to about 2,000 ft.

The pilot kept trying to stay in contact with any other planes in the area,  but there was no visual sighting which kind of shook us up.

In the final circle of the fire crater, the pilot stood the plane over sideways and I was laying on the plane window as I filmed the flames below which were rising to about 500 ft. The pilot could hardly control the plane because of the severe heat currents.

What a fantastic experience!

The next morning the newspaper reported that a sightseeing plane over the volcano had crashed and all aboard were killed. This was undoubtedly the plane which our pilot kept trying to see. All flights over the volcano were immediately stopped, so we were probably the last flight to go.

Lou Hodapp

The Song That Aroused a Nation

"There'll Be Bluebirds Over The White Cliffs of Dover" is a popular World War II song made famous by Vera Lynn with her 1942 recording—one of her best known recordings. Written in 1941, the song was also among the most popular Second World War tunes. It was written before America had joined World War II, to uplift the spirits of the Allies at a time when Nazi Germany had conquered much of Europe's area and was bombing Britain. London and the other major British cities were being bombed practically every night. Imagine having to leave your home every night to go to bombshelters and wait out the bomber's blitz. The shelters themselves were mostly in the basements of the strongest buildings, but many lost their lives while huddled within the shelters. There was much depression and suicide.
The song was written at a time when British and German aircraft had been fighting over the cliffs of Dover in the Battle of Britain - the song's lyrics looked toward a time when the war would be over and peace would rule over the iconic White Cliffs of Dover, Britain's de facto border with the European mainland. The song was sung everywhere among the people of Britain and could be pointed to as seeming to be an uplifting rallying point in the fight against Nazi Germany.

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Zeus and Roxanne

This is 11 minutes of the movie "Zeus and Roxanne" with Steve Guttenberg and Kathleen Quinlan made in 1997. This section was taken from the Portuguese version of the film. Enjoy!!

Rubik's Cube Mosaic