Boeing 707 first class seating, 1959 on.

[recycled sixtie]

Thanks for the awesome pic of the 707. My sister was a flight attendant back in the '60s.(Called an air hostess in those days).

To qualify she had be 21, single and have nursing experience. She had all of the above and started flying on Bristol Britannia's. She ended up flying 707's.

Duty days were brutal . She worked for a charter airline in the UK and 16 to 20 hours on duty in those days was not uncommon. Troop charters to Singapore etc. Turbo props were not that fast so it took just about twice as long to get anywhere. At the end of some long days she used to come home and cry from fatigue.

It was considered pretty glamorous to be an air hostess in those days. A couple of memories I had of her life in those days. One weekend she brought home a flight attendant girlfriend and the latter had a miscarriage. Happy to say that I was not there.

My sister had a pilot boyfriend who had a young son. She decided to split up with him and he kept her at his place at gunpoint. My father went to rescue her and brought her home and both came home safely.

I was a teenager then and the 60's seemed crazy but it was fun.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by island911

So you like the tabloid smears, do ya?

Have you ever heard the term Conformational Bias?

Nope, never have heard of conformational bias. Is that like peer pressure?

I have however heard of confirmation bias

"Confirmation bias, also called confirmatory bias or myside bias, is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms one's preexisting beliefs or hypotheses, while giving disproportionately less consideration to alternative possibilities."

[island911]

^covered earlier.

Originally Posted by Neilk

Off topic to the real conversation, but that is a staged picture... no one is smoking!

Pre flight; right? --no smoking until the light goes off.

[intakexhaust]

Originally Posted by recycled sixtie

Thanks for the awesome pic of the 707. My sister was a flight attendant back in the '60s.(Called an air hostess in those days).

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Stateside they were called 'stewardess' and of which they had strict physical requirements.

The days of miniskirts and hot pants

[DanielDudley]

Another case where my anecdote Trumps yours, eh ?

Don't concern yourself with forum rules, they were created for those others.

[greglepore]

How the heck did an airplane thread get PARF'd?

[SoCal911T]

Originally Posted by greglepore

How the heck did an airplane thread get PARF'd?

lol, it seems like pretty much ANYTHING can get PARFed around here.


My first airplane ride was on a 707. Here I am with my Mom and Sister at Berlin's Tegel Airport waiting for our flight to New York circa 1963-64. I'm wearing something from what appears to be the Junior UPS driver collection.

[Bill Douglas]

I was born in '59. I could have been conceived on that very plane.

[island911]

Fantastic photo!

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by island911

So you like the tabloid smears, do ya?

Have you ever heard the term Conformational Bias?

I am amazed at the ease some people bite on stories that they want to be true.

Don't read this: witness comes forward to refute sex assault claim | New York Post
For it will clash with your conformational bias.
And certainly do not read this Busted: Trump Sex Allegations Full of Holes » Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!

If it makes the voices happy that's enuff.
Real doesn't matter, true doesn't matter, FEEL is all that matters.

[NY65912]

When I was 9 (1964) we went to Italy in 1st class on a 707. Great experience. I have a Polaroid of me in my seat reading the menu. Yes, the stewardess took a picture of you/family for remembrance back then.

[tcar]

Originally Posted by SoCal911T

lol, it seems like pretty much ANYTHING can get PARFed around here.


My first airplane ride was on a 707. Here I am with my Mom and Sister at Berlin's Tegel Airport waiting for our flight to New York circa 1963-64. I'm wearing something from what appears to be the Junior UPS driver collection.

That's a DC-8 in the background... United did not use ANY 707's.

But I'm sure that you didn't fly on that exact plane.

[SoCal911T]

Originally Posted by tcar

But I'm sure that you didn't fly on that exact plane.

No, that would have been a little cramped and breezy . Mom says we flew Pan Am.

[tcar]

Originally Posted by SoCal911T

Mom says we flew Pan Am.

PanAm was the legacy 707 carrier... the first.

[BE911SC]

Originally Posted by island911

Amazing. Going all the way back to 1959 they had permanently fixed arm-rests.

A feature carried forward to the present.

Look at all that high cost. We need to cut that right away. All that money could be going into our pockets instead of being wasted on quality and comfort.

[Jolly Amaranto]

This was the first 707 I ever flew on. We did not fly first class but were back in "steerage" with the rest of the peons.

[SoCal911T]

[greglepore]

One of my earliest memories is going to Puerto Rico in 63 or 64 by PanAm 707...great thread

[Jolly Amaranto]

PSA was the first airline I ever flew on. My mom, two older brothers and I flew from the Los Angeles area to San Francisco on an old DC-4. I don't think we flew out of LAX, may have been Burbank or something like that. We took a cab from SF over to Oakland where we got on this plane to fly to Okinawa. Now that was a loooong flight with stops in Hawaii, Wake Island and Guam.

[petrolhead611]

My first flight was in 1956, when 7, from London Heathrow to Munich, in a British European Airways Airspeed Ambassador..