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I'm not old enough for it to ever have been glamorous, but I did make my first flights as a kid in '78, '80, '83, '85. THose were all LONG flights or strings of flights from Florida to northern Japan. I have flown in the back of an AF cargo plane with no insulation (sound or temp) facing backwards. You had to dress warm and they handed out those foam compressible ear plugs. That was only from a base down near Tokyo to our destination/source in northern Japan. I think the flight was a hour or so. I think those trips took about 18-24 hours depending upon the route and lay-overs.

I've also made a ton of flights all over the states and a few to Europe and Mexico. I don't generally have a problem with security. The last time I flew was in Feb, and I didn't get frisked in Houston or FL. My biggest irritation has been upon two occasions where I flew with an item, and then on the return trip, the TSA folks told me I couldn't take it home. I think I told them to just throw it away both times. One other time, in Phoenix, I was told "I recommend you take your shoes off." I asked if I had to take them off and they said "No, but I recommend it." I asked a couple of other ways because it seemed weird. Yeah, I didn't so they did the whole luggage search and search me with the metal detecting wand and chemical wipes thing. It wasn't that big a deal, but if they'd just said "take your shoes off or we have to search you." I'd have been happy to take off my shoes.

So, really, I haven't had any problems flying.