My first plane trip was to Iowa with my mother to visit her family. I must have been 10 to 12 years old so would have been around 1970. Previously we had taken the train, which I thought to be a grand experience. The thought of flying was scary to me that first time! But realizing how quick we got to our destination made it worthwhile...planes for me from that point forward!!
Oh my oh my, though I was born just a few months after you, I had a working class teenage life very different, or was it? You prompt a post. Alaska to me is my favourite TV series ever: Northern Exposure. I have the book and the boxed CDs.
I never went on an aeroplane until 1970. Birmingham to Inverness for work, then the only passenger because there was a strike of cabin crew and a pilot saw me on and off the
four engined turbo prop DeHaviland Viscount, the best plane I have ever travelled on. I haven’t flown since 1985. I was travelling alone on buses from the age of four around my part of London, then to Scotland from seven to stay with my mother and stepfather in Dunbar during summer school holidays, making the journey by overnight coach, one with reclining seats, food, a toilet at the back and me watched over by hostesses. Another post I think. Looking at the clock, it says 3.55pm, so I guess this will appear at 4pm your time.
A lovely post Sandra. Did you grow up fast or end up trapped, it all happening to you ? 🐰
My first plane trip was to Iowa with my mother to visit her family. I must have been 10 to 12 years old so would have been around 1970. Previously we had taken the train, which I thought to be a grand experience. The thought of flying was scary to me that first time! But realizing how quick we got to our destination made it worthwhile...planes for me from that point forward!!
Oh my oh my, though I was born just a few months after you, I had a working class teenage life very different, or was it? You prompt a post. Alaska to me is my favourite TV series ever: Northern Exposure. I have the book and the boxed CDs.
I never went on an aeroplane until 1970. Birmingham to Inverness for work, then the only passenger because there was a strike of cabin crew and a pilot saw me on and off the
four engined turbo prop DeHaviland Viscount, the best plane I have ever travelled on. I haven’t flown since 1985. I was travelling alone on buses from the age of four around my part of London, then to Scotland from seven to stay with my mother and stepfather in Dunbar during summer school holidays, making the journey by overnight coach, one with reclining seats, food, a toilet at the back and me watched over by hostesses. Another post I think. Looking at the clock, it says 3.55pm, so I guess this will appear at 4pm your time.
A lovely post Sandra. Did you grow up fast or end up trapped, it all happening to you ? 🐰