I got to watch the test flights out of Paine Field in winter 1969. Had a number of voyages on them over the next four five years. Most terrifying was the landing in Guatemala where one end of the VERY shorty runway was a 400 year old aqueduct, the other a plunge down a ravine. Touchdown was maybe 65 meters in from the ravine and you had to brake hard over the next 2050 meters or you bump the aqueduct. No longer booked flights on them after Teneriffe.
Clay inter urinas et faeces nascimur > On Jul 16, 2021, at 3:19 AM, Peter Frederick via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > Yeah, that 747 was something else. > > I had the best and the worst seats in Tourist class on a trip to Germany -- > back in those days you got your seat assignment at checkin, and I had lots of > time in Chicago on the way over. Got a nice seat in the emergency exit row > over the wing, a row of seats is removed for that. Infinite foot room. > > On the way back, my sister screwed around and I got to the Frankfort airport > pretty late for an international flight, so got stuck in the last row, window > seat. The fuselage taper intrudes on the floor space there, so I had a > little triangle for my feet maybe 16x14x6". Horrible flight, left at 1:30 pm > local time and arrived at 3:30 pm local time, passenger next to me chain > smoked the whole trip. > > Great plane though, pilots loved them. > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
