Re: Very OT: things that fly by

Andrew Stephenson <ames@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> In article <1ijr1lr.jo6wzac767siN%peter@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>          peter@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 "Peter Ceresole" writes:
> 
> > My first experience of flying luxury was the Viscount. Turbine
> > engines; quiet and fast, huge cabin windows. They were lovely
> > planes.
> 
> AOL.  And good looking.  IIRC, their publicity included a claim
> one could balance a half crown on edge on the individual seats'
> tables.  Thinking about it now, I imagine that would call for a
> little cooperation from the pilot.
> 
> But they still were firmly of the era when cabin pressurisation
> was a developing art.  Cabin staff (sorry, "stewardesses") came
> around with free sweets for sucking during takeoff and landing,
> to help ease ear pressure.

Kuwait Airways was doing that in the early 1970s, with Boeing 707s!


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