[WIladyconservative]

I was on a DC-10 headed for Europe in the 80's that aborted a takeoff due to weather. Don't know how close we were to take-off, but we were going fast enough to push you back in the seat. All of a sudden we were all flung forward (thank heaven for seatbelts), and drastically slowed down.

The pilot taxied around, waited a bit and took off. We found out after we were in the air that there was a thunderstorm in the path of our take off.

I'm still not very keen on flying . . .

[Milwaukee_Guy]

I'm a weather nut, ham radio operator and a Skywarn Spotter. My awareness of severe weather does not help when I am flying.

Remember a Sun Country 727 at General Mitchell Field (MKE) as we started a takeoff roll and saw a decent black/purple gust front about a couple of miles ahead, directly in our path. Saw one, two, three spectacular cloud to ground strikes bracketing our path. Great! We slowly pull up and I knew we would get hammered the second we got into the low cloud deck. Bounced around real good for about two minutes. Might have experienced some wind shear.

My wife was at the gate watching us leave and said we were the last plane out. They halted flights because the tornado sirens were going off!!!! :-O