On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 19:31:47 GMT, Andrew Chaplin
wrote:

Steve Hix wrote:

You did good Gordon. I envy your son, being as there is nothing much to
match the feeling of your first flight (passenger or not).

Of course, now the kid is ruined for life. He's going to want to do it
again. And again. ... :}

I'll say he did good, all right. It takes me back to my first flight
in a Cessna (150, I think; I wasn't old enough to discriminate) at the
Maxville Highland Games in 1964. It cost my mother $20 or so for the
two of us (a lot out of her budget) for a 15 minute flight and I
really think I was an excuse so my mother could justify going up
herself. I was enraptured. When the pilot turned on final after about
only eight minutes, my mother pointed this out to him, so we did a
touch-and-go and another little jaunt. Certainly the high point of my
life up to that point.

Memories, my first flight was in an AeroCommander, circa 1063. It
belonged to a friend of my mother's, so no cost (I doubt if we could
have afforded it). Wonderful a/c, and as I recall a super pilot.

Al Minyard