WINDOW seat or aisle? Ever since I was a small child, there’s been only one answer. Sure, the aisle is a bit roomier, and it’s easier to get up to stretch your legs. But for me, it’s all about the views, especially those entrancing last few minutes before touchdown.
It’s how the details of the world are summoned again, how gracefully scale and shadings resolve into trees and fields and subdivisions. It’s the steady, lyrical motion of a silvery wing over a new place — an entirely unique geography and history that appear simply and perfectly beneath you.
As a teenager, I was so enamored with landings that I would choose soundtracks for them, cuing up my Walkman for that perfect song (rules on electronic devices were different back then, I swear).-----------------------------
The excerpt is from NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/05/02/travel/joys-window-seat.html?hp
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/travel/28journeys-1.html
I actually recorded a takeoff from my window seat with a music on....
http://minihp.cyworld.com/22674530/312385855
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