Remember When
Remember When
Paxing All Over The World
Joined: May 2001
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From: Hertfordshire, UK.
Hey a MOVIE screen!!!! Do I ever remember the first time I saw a film on board. 
A 747-100 around 1974.
Then I recall the day in 1987 on a VS -200 doing LGW - EWR that they handed out Personal VideoMan tape players. It was the VERY first trip with them and no one was too sure what to do. All the tapes were in a plastic tray normally used for loaves of bread! I cannot remember what I watched but it was a great moment.
A 747-100 around 1974.
Then I recall the day in 1987 on a VS -200 doing LGW - EWR that they handed out Personal VideoMan tape players. It was the VERY first trip with them and no one was too sure what to do. All the tapes were in a plastic tray normally used for loaves of bread! I cannot remember what I watched but it was a great moment.
Joined: Jan 2002
Posts: 768
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From: Paros, Greece
I guess what it tells me is to take more pix aboard todays 'modern' aircraft because they won't be around forever.
Not old enough to have travelled on a 707, but I have fond memories of my first transatlantic crossing on a Delta L1011-500 in the eighties. Not that long ago but sadly no more. Also travelled on one of Olympics 727's just a few weeks before it's final revenue flight in early 2000. The interior seemed very '70's' - bare flourescent tubes, threadbare seats and carpet, ashtrays (complete with ash). Had proper 'atmosphere' - certainley not an anonymous metal tube.
Not old enough to have travelled on a 707, but I have fond memories of my first transatlantic crossing on a Delta L1011-500 in the eighties. Not that long ago but sadly no more. Also travelled on one of Olympics 727's just a few weeks before it's final revenue flight in early 2000. The interior seemed very '70's' - bare flourescent tubes, threadbare seats and carpet, ashtrays (complete with ash). Had proper 'atmosphere' - certainley not an anonymous metal tube.
Everything is under control.
Joined: Jul 2001
Posts: 437
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From: Washington, D.C.
Air vents in the seat backs for the middle seats. Seems better than today's putting them waaaayyyy-the-heck-up-there, or leaving them out completely. Wonder where that idea went?
