I go from reading about that plane to that a Panamian president died in a crash of that plane, to Noriega's payments by the CIA to the US invasion of Panama: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_invasion_of_Pa...

At 3am when I should be sleeping. The internet is the invention of our lifetimes..its just amazing how just on the notion of sheer information - and education of us regular citizens, has totally been shaken. I recently read that libraries were first created with the purpose of letting even poor folk self-educate.

And still there are likely numerous stories that are not on Wikipedia, because of their rule against "original research".

Makes one wonder if there should be an attempt at setting up a wiki for personal stories and such, as i doubt blog services have any dedication to preservation.

There definitely should. If you are up for it, maybe we can do it together. My email is in my profile.

These are the little planes which fly tourists between Kathmandu and Lukla airport (with its notoriously short runway) when you go trekking in the Himalayas.

http://www.markhorrell.com/blog/2011/the-lukla-flight-is-it-...

In northeren Norway there is supposedly a saying that if Widerøe was not flying, it was no weather to be outdoors in.

At one point the company was the worlds biggest operator of Twin Otters. And the plane got a reputation for flying in horrible weather conditions.

There's a regular flight from Glasgow to Barra which makes use of these - the runway is a beach.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVFjH6b07a4

Surprised they didn't use floaters.

The Minch can have pretty rough seas.

I have a childhood memory of being on a ferry across it and being the only person interested in lunch.

Ah yes, i should have figured.

I've jumped out of them when I skydived. They get up quick, carry a fair number of skydivers. Fabulous when you normally jump at a small drop zone with little Cessnas carrying four or five skydivers at a time.

#nostalgia