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OK I'll buy into this thread as I have very strong memories based on severe pain.
I was six years old, travelling alone on a Viscount to Melbourne (Ansett I think but may have been TAA)

At that age I didn't know how to clear my ears and the dopey stewardesses couldn't tell me either. Believe it or not they forced some kind of cream up my nose!
Apart from the severe ear ache, I loved the flight and they presented me with a junior flyers metal wing badge which has since been lost in the mists of time.

For those who don't know what a Viscount is,

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POTR
"Only birds and fools fly and even the birds don't fly at night"

Gotta love the scream of those old RR Dart engines on the Viscount.

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Music to the ears. That was the only flight with 4 Darts but I had five years listening to two at a time fitted to RAF HS748's.

Regards
PS. Considering my experience with stewardesses I'm thinking of starting a stupid stewardess thread.
Not long ago I was seated by the exit(my usual choice) and during boarding, a woman was carrying a baby who lost it's hat in the wind.The hat was covered in metal badges and the stewardess at the top of the steps just stayed there smiling her insincere best. I retrieved the hat and suggested that the engines probably wouldn't like it much.

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POTR
"Only birds and fools fly and even the birds don't fly at night"

Lets see. I was 8 I think, and I was a good 15 to 20 feet in a maple tree.

The flight didn't go so well, I think I hit every branch in the way on the way down. Needless to say I hit the ground in a rather hard landing.

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Snuffy

Glad I'm not the only one. Four years listening to the Darts on Wasaya Airways's HS748s.

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It wasn't till I was 24 years old that I had my first flight experience. Always likes airplane but refused to get on one every time I had a chance to fly. That all changed when a business deal demanded that I fly to Ohio to finalize. I remember turning to the man next to me as re rolled down the runway, and in a nervous voice asking if it was to late to turn back. He just laughed and went back to ready in book. By the time we landed I was hooked. In the last 20 years I managed to earn my private pilots license, had 2 hrs of mock air combat in a SF 260, and 6 flights as a crew member on a B25 (MAAM Briefing Time). I currently fly an average of about 90K miles a year for business.

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Many times I climbed all over 727's when they landed at Kal (usually during refueler's strikes) but first flight was 10 years old, C172.

It was another 16 years before I got to ride in a commercial jet (no great loss!!)

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...Some say he never blinks, and that he roams around the woods at night foraging for Merlin parts...

Awesomse story thanks for sharing. Love the ole British classics so just adds that extra specialness to the story. Bloody nice picture too.

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Thanks Lewis, i love the the British classics as well. The pic is the Comet 4 I like to fly.

My second flight(off topic) was scary and annoying at age 10. My father took me on a joyride from the local airport in a Cessna. He and the pilot sat up front and made me sit in the back which really p***ed me off. Even worse, the old man told the pilot that he'd flown during the war and the pilot let him do the landing. A very scary experience!

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"Only birds and fools fly and even the birds don't fly at night"

The new Just Flight Comet is quite nice, I like it. Better than their DC-3, thats for sure

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For my Classdic british stuff the freeware stuff from the cbfs chaps is still tops imo, though ports they seem to work ok in fsx with some little tweaks, which are helped out by the tutorials on the forums.

I think all I use to fly in fs2004 at one point classic brit wise was the varsity.

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Ha Ha, "the flying pig" as affectionately termed by the guys who flew them

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"Only birds and fools fly and even the birds don't fly at night"

When I was 12 I joined a group here in Canada called the Royal Canadian Air Cadets. This program not only taught the youth about aviation, but also important things like citizenship, leadership, fitness, teamwork, discipline, and in many cases music. So back to my first flight... Shortly after my joining my squadron had a day we could go gliding. So my very first flight was in the front seat of a Schweizer SGS 2-33A. The trip was short only 10 to 15 min long. But that was the flight that made me say my goal in the Air Cadet program was to get my Glider Pilot Wings.

When I was 17, I was accepted into the Regional Glider School, and graduated, and was given a GPL and my Air Cadet Glider Pilot Wings. I then went to my local cadet glider squadron and helped give many many kids their very first ride in an aircraft. It's always fun when your passenger has never flown before and it's their very first flight.

The next summer when I was 18, I was accepted into the Air Cadet's power scholarship. And that's where I got my Power Wings, and my PPL. My first love will always be in a glider though, where else can you go FL240 and have ATC move a 747 for you?

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Not my first flight but one that stands out. I was nine and we went from Tampa to Miami on what had to be one of the last scheduled passenger flights in a DC-3. It was loud, unpressurized, bumpy and magnificent!



No one seems bothered by FOD anymore. When I started in aviation we were hammered about FOD. No hats on the flight line and remove insignia or sew it on. I once spent half an hour groping in an engine inlet behind the lower half of the particle separator looking for a bent cotter pin. Fortunately I found it or a long afternoon would have been a long night.

If you do start a stewardess thread, I'll share the cabin air sample, the speed of heat, the blue juice tasting and the in-flight urinalysis.

You sound like a bitter old USAir guy. All they do is whine. At least the Southwest guys usually bring cookies.