Flying Yesteryear

Interesting article about flying in the 60s and 70s...

http://mentalfloss.com/article/51270/11 ... -airplanes

Continental Airlines pub anyone?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL4FJV4Xg44

Rather fancy those sleeping berths !

Thanks Billy.

I would like to give the Sleeper Berth a go too.

Also I quite like the idea of the Southwest Stewardesses in Hot Pants.

[buns]

I remember those headsets and or course watching the one and only film on the big screen at the front of the cabin.

How things have moved on

Thanks billy

buns

Sadly I can remember (fondly?) some of these!
Certainly the carving of meat from a trolley and the flower arrangements, though they were set up in the cabin, and toilets, after takeoff. Of course the dinner was cold by the time you got to eat it but that was the norm for American cuisine in those days.
From memory the first class Continental lounges were a step up from their rather overcrowded ones of the present day. Of course I never noticed any hot pants, in those days I only had eyes for mrs hazban! ii)

[Darren Wheeler]

Would be interesting to see how much a ticket then would cost now (adjusted for inflation etc).

Thanks for posting. All before my time but wouldn't mind a go in one of those 'sleeper berths'!

'Stratocruiser' - what a great name for a plane, don't get names like that today n(