In What, When And Where Was Your First Plane Ride

[robbiefs2004]

My first plane ride i think was from Las Vegas to Los Angeles (on a boeing 737 American) to Tawaiian then to Singapore on a Singapore Airlines Boeing 747 i think in 1999.

[deKoven]

Hmm, circa 1950 on a Boeing 707 headed down from Seattle to Santa Fe to live. I wuz about 7 or 8 (I think).

[lucio49]

My first flight was in the mid 60's, I was about 16 yo, first "real" hollydays from Belgium to Palma De Mallorca. The aircraft was the Caravelle (don't remember the version, but looked a lot like the one on the pic). Company was the belgian Sabena. The airport in Palma was under construction, and if my memory is not bugging, we had to use the old Son Bonet airfield, now used as a private airfield. What I remember from the flight is: very beautiful stewardess (remember: I was 16!!!), excellent meal and service. It was a night flight and the captain cutted off the cabin lights for a while, when we flew over Paris, so we could admire the scenery.



PS. During this hollydays, I fell in love with a very beautiful spanish girl, but that's another story

Luc

[T18]

can remeber what the 1st plane i was on was, but can remeber the 1st i sat left seat in, Diamond DA40.

[Gerbrandd]

1998-I was two years old - An Airbus A320-200 of Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium, From Brussels Airport (EBBR) to Corfu, Greece (LGKR). I certainly know that it was a A320, because Thomas Cook Belgium only has A320 in their fleet (no I couldn't recognize the aircraft type yet ).

Gerbrand

[Kapitan]

My first flight was in the mid 60's, I was about 16 yo, first "real" hollydays from Belgium to Palma De Mallorca. The aircraft was the Caravelle (don't remember the version, but looked a lot like the one on the pic). Company was the belgian Sabena. The airport in Palma was under construction, and if my memory is not bugging, we had to use the old Son Bonet airfield, now used as a private airfield. What I remember from the flight is: very beautiful stewardess (remember: I was 16!!!), excellent meal and service. It was a night flight and the captain cutted off the cabin lights for a while, when we flew over Paris, so we could admire the scenery.



PS. During this hollydays, I fell in love with a very beautiful spanish girl, but that's another story

Luc

Great first fly Luc! Those golden years were the best in aviation. Yours is similar to my experience.
Thou mine you wont be able to read it cause it was posted more than a year ago, so its lost among the 144 replies of this thread. I happened to enter this thread by coincidence for the first time in over a year just because I see people keep commenting.

And I wonder. What is the purpose of commenting? Isnt it to share your views with others? But if people just enter a thread to comment and then leave...and everybody else does the same thing...its... irrational. A deaf talking to another deaf.
I think threads should have a limit of comments and time, if the subject is still of interest someone can open another.
That would make each thread easy to be fully read, and comments to be shared, to be KNOWN. To have meaning to others.

Its an egoistical situation in the sense that every poster comments in the hope that someone will read the comment, and then leave without reading the others, but everybody acts the same way, so in the end nobody reads nothing...just comment and move on lol! weird!
K

[adamb]

Really enjoying reading all these replies everyone,very interesting and entertaining to say the least,everyone's story is a little different,that's what makes it so intriguing,love it.I just want to thank everyone again for there response,it was a lot of fun.

Kapitan,just like watching TV,don't like it,turn the channel,same here don't like it don't read it.

Adam

[Majikman]

My first was in the 6th grade from CVG to BWI in a DC-9. First time to Washington DC and first flight and first without family...

[bergz48]

It was in a Luscombe 2 seater in 1972, over the skies of Lake Pend O'reille, North Idaho. I was 10 yrs. old, scared the you now what out of me!

Plane looked something like this:

[camelface]

The replies in this thread are fascinating, especially coming from the oldies who flew in DC-3's, Connie's, 707's, and Comets. Mine is a quite boring flight from Montreal to Toronto in a A320 when I was around 5-6. The most vintage stuff I can provide is that smoking was prohibited but that ashtrays remained in the cabin.