My first flight: a question?
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august -71, frontier guards“agusta bell helicopter. we took off from the airport, cruised half an hour along the finnish-russian frontier zone and finally landed in the back yard of the house my friend was living in. big deal for a 12-year old kid, i guess the dad of the friend was "well connected".
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First one Dec. 16 1953 aboard Canadian Pacific Airlines DC-3 From CYBQ to CYFE (Forestville Qc),a 1 hour and 45 minutes flight back then.
Several month before of same year, a same company DC-3 exploded in flight at Sault-au-Cochon from a bomb built by a jewler for a man desperate to get rid of his wife. 27 casualties and no survivors.
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Several month before of same year, a same company DC-3 exploded in flight at Sault-au-Cochon from a bomb built by a jewler for a man desperate to get rid of his wife. 27 casualties and no survivors.
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BEA Viscount, 1974 Southampton - Jersey on a school day trip - cost was only around £8 - and back into Gatwick. Remember sitting at the huge picture window the Viscounts had, looking at the ground and the cumulus with sun shining and being almost lost for words!
It all developed from there - now PPL with 500 hours and fly in anything I can.
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It all developed from there - now PPL with 500 hours and fly in anything I can.
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OO-AOG,
I hope that you ask for the safety cards! It's both dangerous and illegal to remove them from the seat pockets, so request one when at the base airport of the airline (or do the crew carry spares??) and I'm sure that you'll be given one.
Hang on a bit - dangerous" - to remove them? That assumes that the average pax ever bothers to read the thing! Having been well-educated on PPRuNe, I made a point during my last round of travels (2 legs Mid-East to LON, LON-USA, USA-LON-GLA and back to LON then 2 more legs to Mid-East again) to read the cards, check for the presence of a life vest on each sector, and check the exits, how they worked and how many rows away
Didn't notice a single other pax getting out their card - I guess they'd have been behind me if there'd been an evac
(now ain't I good boy!)
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What Goes Around . . . . .
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I hope that you ask for the safety cards! It's both dangerous and illegal to remove them from the seat pockets, so request one when at the base airport of the airline (or do the crew carry spares??) and I'm sure that you'll be given one.
Hang on a bit - dangerous" - to remove them? That assumes that the average pax ever bothers to read the thing! Having been well-educated on PPRuNe, I made a point during my last round of travels (2 legs Mid-East to LON, LON-USA, USA-LON-GLA and back to LON then 2 more legs to Mid-East again) to read the cards, check for the presence of a life vest on each sector, and check the exits, how they worked and how many rows away
Didn't notice a single other pax getting out their card - I guess they'd have been behind me if there'd been an evac
(now ain't I good boy!)
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What Goes Around . . . . .
. . often makes a better landing
