You know, depending on the age, we are gone a long time. TW/PA/BN/EA, forget about it. You will find more of us at the local pool store than in the air. I don't like to reminisce because it brings tears to my eyes ( yet, it shouldn't, but I can't help it ) but our experience can never be brought back. On the other hand, we had different airplanes and we had a different working attitude. Airplanes were evolving. We felt privileged to fly, didn't feel like a right. But also the pax behaved in a different way. You know, it's just a very, very different world now.And a very, very different world doing business now,
Rickenbacher and Trippe and all the other aviation pioneers are gone. Now the bankers and the financeers run the business. It's a very different world!!!