IFR flight ME261 from Larnaca to Beirut.

www.myleb.blogspot.com

The 2 hour plane flight from Dubai to Beirut. The last leg of the journey when one is traveling from Sydney to Lebanon.

For 2 hours you see nothing but lifeless brown desert beneath you but then through the distance you see a green emerald shimmering through the brown haze. Lebanon.

The time on my watch is Sydney time in the evening.

As for the music, that was the song being played while I was having my lunch on the plane so each time I hear the song, it reminds me of this part of the trip.

And anyway, One Night in Lebanon is One Night in Heaven.

Airbus A320 Middle east airlines
flight simulator 2004

Little Mountain podcast called “People Loving People” for your listening pleasure:

“All The Way To China” James Figurine
“you take my breath away” The Knife
“I’m A Cult Hero” Cult Hero
“Pastora Divine” White Flight
“Movies In My Head” The 6ths
“Oriental Nightfish” Linda McCartney
“Prenzlaurberg” Beirut
“We Used To Vacation” Cold War Kids
“Three Seed” Silversun Pickups
“Messed Up Desert” Clipd Beaks
“Done With You” The Whitest Boy Alive

one of the 1st flights after breaking the seige
Look how awesome is Beirut.
LOOk to the moon!!
Stop your political childhood!

Landing in Beirut, Lebanon june 2006

A flight sim video of a MEA A320 landing from Milan to Beirut. MEA has returned their sole A320, but it looks so good in MEA colors, she deserves to fly again Thanks to all my Lebanese friends for their help and inspiration and just being so kind to me :)

AirlineHobby.com DVD Preview - Throughout the Lebanese civil war, Lebanon’s flag-carrier airline MEA kept flying, while almost everything else in Beirut was destroyed. Most would have thought that Middle East Airlines, like the country it serves, should have gone out of business.

This DVD examines the story behind MEA’s remarkable survival, with on-location action footage of MEA Boeing 707 and Boeing 720 aircraft shot at Athens, Beirut and Larnaca Airport, as well as once-in-a-lifetime flights aboard these historic aircraft. Exterior and interior footage of 707 air-starts (one engine at a time), taxiing, take-off, passenger cabin and cockpit, and landings will bring back the memories of what it was like to fly as a passenger on a Boeing 707!

In September, 1994, with MEA’s assistance, airline videographer Henry Tenby traveled to Beirut to visit the airline and document their current day operation, which was then, one of the world’s last, passenger Boeing 707 operations.

MEA retired the last Boeing 707 in 1997, but their memory lives on forever on this DVD, dedicated to the many MEA employees responsible for the company’s survival. Sit back, relax, and enjoy your MEA flights!