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Old Mar 3, 2019, 12:11 am
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Originally Posted by miniliq
Perhaps we've discussed this before, but I have to compete with you jlemon, because it's the 60th anniversary of my first commercial flight aboard a Lockheed L1049 Super Constellation operated by Trans-Canada Airlines from Edmonton (YEG) to Toronto (YYZ) for a job interview in 1958. ...
well, gentlemen, some time this month I have both of you beat ... 65 years ... I was less than a year old

I thought it was actually this week, but I can’t presently lay my hands on the little certificate, signed by the captain, that my mom received from the flight attendant (who of course was then called a stewardess)

my log entry is
“ — Mar 54 TW 86 ABQ-MDW CST” (where CST = Lockheed L-749A Constellation)
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