Where were you going on your first airplane ride?
Sep 3, 2021 02:45:43 #
1971, BOAC VC10. Manchester-Prestwick-New York. I was 23, joining MS Victoria as ships photographer, Caribbean cruises out of Pier 57, Manhattan.
Sep 3, 2021 04:13:39 #
RiJoRi
Loc: Sandy Ridge, NC
La Guardia to DC. The co. I worked for developed stamp machines for the USPS, and we had to set one up so they could test it. (Good ol' 8085 micro with 2K RAM!)
--Rich
--Rich
Sep 3, 2021 05:28:19 #
tramsey wrote:
I was going to State Highway Patrol School.
Nowhere. I went in, turned some screws then went out...
Sep 3, 2021 05:42:34 #
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Sep 3, 2021 06:36:04 #
sumo wrote:
1961 - San Fran to Wake Island on way to Korea
I remember Wake Island—a refueling stop on the way to Okinawa.
Slick Airlines prop job.
Sep 3, 2021 06:39:39 #
I was going to Pittsburgh to visit a pregnant girlfriend at a home for unwed mothers. It was on a TWA Constellation. Four bangers and as noisy as hell. She had the baby that same weekend. I didn't meet him until he was 30 years old. He tracked me down. Quite a story.
Sep 3, 2021 06:43:44 #
My cousin took me for a local ride in a Republic Seabee seaplane that he owned. It was in the early 60's.
Sep 3, 2021 06:55:03 #
On a small seaplane on the Delaware River when I was 10. First commercial was an Electra on the way to Fort Knox, KY for basic training.
Sep 3, 2021 06:56:09 #
9 years old, Vickers Viscount. Guernsey (Channel Islands (U.K.) for a Scout Camp. Big glass windows and low, about 10,000' except for when it went over the Fawley Oil Refinery (or updraught from it). That was fun.
To be honest, I think most of us preferred the Steam Train and Ferry to the same destination 2 years earlier. Looked like Chimney Sweeps when we got to the Ferry for a 4hr crossing on na moderate sea without stabilisation. We loved - I don't think anybody did.
To be honest, I think most of us preferred the Steam Train and Ferry to the same destination 2 years earlier. Looked like Chimney Sweeps when we got to the Ferry for a 4hr crossing on na moderate sea without stabilisation. We loved - I don't think anybody did.
Sep 3, 2021 07:07:53 #
cedymock wrote:
I was going up to 3000 feet to jump out .....................with parachute.
Same here. I was in Force Recon training and we had to go to to jump school. The difference between us and other units was if you survived the first jump you were given a parachute to finish the required number of jumps
Sep 3, 2021 07:26:16 #
I'm almost 70 and never had an occasion to fly. Perhaps I will hire someone to take me up in a small plan for my birthday.
Sep 3, 2021 07:30:28 #
kpsk_sony wrote:
I was going to Pittsburgh to visit a pregnant girlfriend at a home for unwed mothers. It was on a TWA Constellation. Four bangers and as noisy as hell. She had the baby that same weekend. I didn't meet him until he was 30 years old. He tracked me down. Quite a story.
A better story would have been if you were there to help and support your child.
Sep 3, 2021 07:43:04 #
Neither the lady or I (both teens) were ready for marriage. His adoptive family brought him up to be a responsible adult -- school teacher, married once, three kids. They did a much better job than I ever could have.
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