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Old Dec 22, 2006 | 4:28 pm
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theblakefish
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
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In addition to my "first flight" story, I will never, ever forget my first time on an airplane. It was from HOU-HRL on WN waaaay back around 1988 for the Confederate Air Force AirSho (now the Commemorative Air Force, for P.C.). I'll never, ever forget the total excitment as the plane accelerated down the runway, that feeling of weightlessness and G-Forces combined as we took to the air...and a FREE COKE! As a runny-nosed 11 year old who thought he knew everything (now I'm a 29 year old with kleenex who doesn't know jack s**t) it was the coolest thing in the world.

Sometimes I think back to that, and it really does kind of refresh my love for aviation. That one feeling when the plane leaves the ground is the best feelings in the world, IMHO. It's even better when I'm in FC, which is why I don't fly WN anymore!
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