My parents shipped me off to Uncle Tony in Carson City NV for a week to get me out of their hair via TVL* (now closed to commercial traffic) on an Air California L100 Electra. This was around 1973. Jets were not allowed there, so Air Cal and PSA used a small sub-fleet of these birbs. At first I was super-excited as a little airplane nerd to fly a big four-engine turbo-prop, but once we started the take-off roll from SNA the excitement turned to not quite terror but the incredible noise and vibrations were pretty awful. I could not wait to get off that paint-shaker.

*vs TLV, which would have been a bit longer of a flight. Related, I was on my way to Shanghai via the then-brand-new Pudong PVG airport that had opened that day. The agent had no idea what PVG was (I didn't either) and tagged my bag to PGV (Greenville NC). Fortunately his colleague noticed this and corrected the mistake. That would not have been a good way to start a months-long stay. We were the first commercial flight to land there, UA 744 from NRT.

Totally OT, sorry.