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Flight attendents were "Stewardesses", and none were "grandmothers."
Pilots, flight crew and passengers smoked in the a/c after it became airborne,
Jets were something only military pilots and test pilots flew,
Cockpit radar was used aboard B-29s, B-50s and B-47s.
You took an unbrella to the airport to keep from getting wet crossing the ramp to the stairway to enter the aircraft.
All airline pilots looked like "Smili'n Jack", "Terry" of Terry and the PIrates or Steve Canyon. All answered to the call "Uncle Bob" from small kids lost in the airport, and they all had flown combat missions in B-17s, B-24s or B-29s over remote places named Berlin, Hannover, Schweinfurt, Ploesti, Tokyo, Nagoiya, and Yokosuka.
What was served inflight was not "Peanuts", but it really didn't resemble food, either...Coca Cola still came in a 6 ounce bottle, and nothing was "supersized"!
A Cub Scout in uniform could fly "co-pilot" in the right-hand seat of a DC-3 between Love Field and Oklahoma City, while the real co-pilot drank coffee in the passenger cabin with the cockpit door open.
Your mother made you get a haircut the day before you went to the airport to take a trip.
Airline tickets were hand-written at the airport, the gate agent only asked for your name, and you paid cash.
Airport terminal security consisted of 2 cops with rust on their wheel-guns, ready to retire, and a 3 foot cyclone fence with an unlocked gate between the passenger terminal sidewalks and the terminal ramp to keep lost and stray dogs and children off the ramp during airport flight operations.
Real aeroplanes burned AVGAS and not JET-A.
The best airline pilots were former Naval and Army Air Corps Aviators, especially over water and when the gear wouldn't come down
Contributed by Barney Sherrill
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