Another airline story in my story collection 'The Mask' is called 'Party Piece' and the narrator is an air hostess, in older age, looking back on the day she flew to Liverpool on a Fokker Friendship, her intimate relationship with the co-pilot who was crewing with her, the various flying phobias common to her hostess colleagues and her own ongoing uneasiness with the rear door on that particular aircraft and which, not for the first time, was causing her angst on that fateful day!
'To return
to my particular bête noire, I can
honestly say that to me the door on the Fokker Friendship was anything but
friendly. Not happily designed like the
Vickers Viscount with a simple locking device, it had first to be lifted and
then positioned firmly in a groove.
Finding the groove was the problem.'
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