Love that Stratocruiser flight deck photo. That was truly a massive engineering feat of reciprocal engined technology.

you don't see drinks trolleys like that anymore!

You don't see drinks trolleys like those anymore!

If you can remember curtains on an airplane does that mean you are old?

I wonder what those tickets cost then and what their inflation adjusted price is now?

When I first started flying (in college) people still dressed up to get on a plane--suits & ties for men, nice dresses for women . . .

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Originally posted by Nitro Express:
When I first started flying (in college) people still dressed up to get on a plane--suits & ties for men, nice dresses for women . . .

I remember wearing a coat and tie as a child to fly in the late 60s, early 70s.

I remember one had to be weighed to get onto an airplane.

I remember Dubai Airport, one of the largest in the world today, when it was a single room, with a ladder on the outside.

There was no airport fence, and one can walk up to it and walk on top to watch an airplane coming - not very often.

It's amazing how things have changed. My first transatlantic flight was from South Carolina to Spain.

We flew from Charleston, SC to Newfoundland, Canada then across to Shannon, Ireland and from there to Spain.