Years after having seen aircrafts fly in the sky, I had the wonderful opportunity of taking my first flight to Mumbai. To fly in the sky at such a great height for an hour or more had been my dream. When we were seated and the seat belts were tied around the engione gathered momentum and we were on the gradient and while the plane took a turn at an acute angle we could see Chennai in the evening with all the glowing lights like fireflies all gathered at one tree.

A little later nothing was visible but the smooth glide of the plane was suddenly interrrupted by too many bumps for a minute or so, reminding me of my daily bus travel to the Engineering College located in a village, over a road which had cracked and broken at many points. I wondered if there was no escape from my routine ordeal. I really did not why the aircraft made thesmall jerks. May be it was sucking in clouds. I do not know.

After a tenday stay I was returning to Chennai. This time at midday. I really wanted to have a look at the earth from such a great height. What struck me as most surprising is the appearance of certain clouds which had piled up into a great height of the Himalayas. It shattered my expectation that clouds would be thick but horizontally layered. This was a vertical heap. This time there was no pump. It was smooth.
As I was sitting close to the wings I could see the wings slightly shaking, giving me the feelings what would happen if it tore away.

It was really a wonderful experience that every one should experience and feel how the earth looks beneath and take a bird's eyeview.