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Benedict Arnold

Do you remember your first trip in an aircraft? How old were you? Where did you go?

Posted - January 26, 2017
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  • Awesome!!
      January 27, 2017 8:30 PM MST
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  • 11006
    I was going to say 18 and it was to New Orleans, but then I remembered as a kid, I went up in a small aircraft. It was some type of charity event and they charged by your weight. My mom refused to be weighed so the rest of us went without her. 
      January 27, 2017 4:01 AM MST
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  • 53509
    Lol, I don't know either of you, but she certainly sounds like your mom!

    :)
      January 27, 2017 5:46 AM MST
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  • What a great idea for raising money. I understand your mother's reluctance, though. There are some things you don't want announced in public. 
      January 27, 2017 1:46 PM MST
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  • That's funny. )
      January 28, 2017 1:04 AM MST
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  • Never been on a commercial plane.
    Been in a single prop and helicopter.  Not much interest in flying to be honest.
      January 27, 2017 4:34 AM MST
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  • 53509
    Yes, I remember it vividly: I was 18 years old and I boarded a plane bound for San Diego, California to enter Marine Corps boot camp. 
    ~
      January 27, 2017 5:45 AM MST
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  • "MCRD ... where concrete shines!"  
    That's what my Marine friend told me
    when he invited me to see the place and he was right. 
    (The big, entry hall's floor was concrete and it did shine!)
      January 28, 2017 12:59 AM MST
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  • Yes, I remember it well. My Uncle took me up in an old AT-6 trainer plane when I was 15 and scared the heck out of me! But the rush was so cool that from there on in? He taught me to fly at 15 and I learned to fly all his vintage WW2 restored airplanes. Love to fly but the Docs grounded me a few months ago.
      January 27, 2017 6:30 AM MST
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  • I can only imagine how much it hurt to have to stop, Rooster. It'd be a wonderful passion to have. 
      January 27, 2017 1:47 PM MST
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  • That's pretty awesome!
      January 28, 2017 1:05 AM MST
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  • 46117
    I know I was not old enough to remember them being called aircraft.

    And I am old.
      January 27, 2017 7:37 AM MST
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  • 44619
    I call them aircraft because it sounds cool.
      January 27, 2017 12:55 PM MST
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  • We just called 'em planes when I was a kid. Still do a lot of the time. I've been slapped for it a few times but so long as it gets the idea across...
      January 27, 2017 1:49 PM MST
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  • 53509
    What did you call them; "them thar newfangled flyin' machines"?
    ~
      January 27, 2017 8:31 PM MST
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  • Aeroplanes ...
      January 28, 2017 1:00 AM MST
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  • 53509
    :)
      January 28, 2017 3:46 AM MST
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  •         I was five years old and we flew from
        the East Coast to the West Coast of the US.
                 Connecticut to California

      January 27, 2017 9:37 AM MST
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  • That picture takes me back. My first flight was in an old DC3, 
      January 27, 2017 1:50 PM MST
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  • I was only five years old, so I'm not sure if it was a DC-3 or a DC-6,
    but the 6's were already available by then, so I picked the best.  
    Why not!  Nice looking picture too. :)
      January 28, 2017 12:50 AM MST
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  • 5451
    My first time in an aircraft of any kind was when I was 21.  It was for my honeymoon vacation.  My first flight was from Watertown, SD to Minneapolis / Saint Paul then from Minneapolis / Saint Paul to Frankfurt, Germany.
      January 27, 2017 11:04 AM MST
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  • Great honeymoon, Livvie. My first flight was also for our honeymoon, but I was a year older than you. :) 
      January 27, 2017 1:51 PM MST
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  • 44619
    I was 6 and flew to Daytona,FL
      January 27, 2017 12:53 PM MST
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  • Exciting for a kid. Maybe not so much these days but back in my time it was almost unheard of. 
      January 27, 2017 1:51 PM MST
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  • 44619
    It was of necessity. My father left and Mom had to ship 5 of us to various other places. One of my sisters and I went to live with an Aunt in Daytona.
      January 28, 2017 7:14 AM MST
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