Where were you going on your first airplane ride?
Sep 3, 2021 14:02:23 #
Kmgw9v wrote:
I remember Wake Island—a refueling stop on the way to Okinawa.
Slick Airlines prop job.
Slick Airlines prop job.
Wake is is A very small place indeed. Have also spent 8 years in Okinawa 84-88 , then 94-98
Sep 3, 2021 14:31:30 #
Sep 3, 2021 14:36:55 #
I was about 9 years old when my father took me for a ride in his Model A Taylorcraft.
Sep 3, 2021 15:16:14 #
I was 12 years old and on a MATS (military air transport) 4 prop airliner going to Germany with my mother, sister, brother, and father who was in the Army and being stationed there in 1960.
It took 16 hrs. to get it there with stops at Gander, Newfoundland, Shannon, Ireland and finally arriving at Frankfort, Germany.
We lived there 5 yrs. before returning to the U.S. in 1965 at the age of 17.
Will
It took 16 hrs. to get it there with stops at Gander, Newfoundland, Shannon, Ireland and finally arriving at Frankfort, Germany.
We lived there 5 yrs. before returning to the U.S. in 1965 at the age of 17.
Will
Sep 3, 2021 15:26:34 #
Sep 3, 2021 15:28:45 #
TheShoe
Loc: Lacey, WA
In 1965 from Wichita to Seattle - First leg to Kansas City on a Martin 404; 2nd leg to Chicago on a Lockheed Electra; 3rd, to Seattle on a Boeing 707.
Sep 3, 2021 16:15:09 #
tramsey wrote:
I was going to State Highway Patrol School.
I was going Skydiving. Never landed in the first plane ride. 😊
Sep 3, 2021 17:10:03 #
olddutch
Loc: Beloit, Wisconsin
As has been told it was on my first birthday and I suppose I went up and then down.
Sep 3, 2021 17:36:56 #
Sep 3, 2021 17:53:14 #
Soul Dr. wrote:
I was 12 years old and on a MATS (military air transport) 4 prop airliner going to Germany with my mother, sister, brother, and father who was in the Army and being stationed there in 1960.
It took 16 hrs. to get it there with stops at Gander, Newfoundland, Shannon, Ireland and finally arriving at Frankfort, Germany.
We lived there 5 yrs. before returning to the U.S. in 1965 at the age of 17.
Will
It took 16 hrs. to get it there with stops at Gander, Newfoundland, Shannon, Ireland and finally arriving at Frankfort, Germany.
We lived there 5 yrs. before returning to the U.S. in 1965 at the age of 17.
Will
Made the same trip in 1959. Graduated from Frankfurt American HS in 1961.
Sep 3, 2021 19:28:57 #
Sep 3, 2021 19:33:47 #
On my way to Pittsburgh to visit my boyfriend at West Virginia University.
Sep 3, 2021 20:20:30 #
tramsey wrote:
I was going to State Highway Patrol School.
Round robin near Miami, FL when I was about 8 years old. My father had a friend that was a pilot in WWII and he took us up in a two-seater warplane, one at a time, of course. My family was vacationing there that Summer.
Sep 3, 2021 21:03:27 #
What a variety of firsts. I thought that most of our first rides would be service related but there's a big bunch that aren't. Ever since my first ride to H.P School I've wanted to be a private pilot. But never made it, too busy holding our family together.
Sep 3, 2021 22:46:11 #
Picture Taker
Loc: Michigan Thumb
Service related would not be high numbers as they say about only 1% of us served in the military.
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