Your First Trip Abroad By Plane......

[Zacs-Master]

How old were you and where was it to?

For me it was 16 and to Majorca in 1978.

[-SharonA-]

I remember my first trip. We went to Benidorm in the 60's. I also remember mum fretting about a form which had a number like V60 for the currency.

[Caran]

Late starter, 1991 aged 50. OH persuaded me, we went on our first holiday to Tolon in Greece.

[Hopkirk]

That would be a Boeing 727 or a Trident, Tony.

[tonyav]

I think it was a Trident, Hopkirk.

[Hopkirk]

Both were noisy beasts

[twix123]

September 1967 aged 20 from Gatwick to Majorca in a Britannia, with rear facing seats.
Two weeks full board , with transfers cost £48, of which £16 was the hotel cost, which was deducted from the £50 foreign exchange allowance on the Form V, leaving £34 to take in Pesetas and £25 in Sterling for necessary items such as beer, beer and more beer and any left over was frittered away on the girls we met.

[TonyV]

Yes was a trident two engines on wings and one on tail, was pretty quick then in past days and noisy.

[Hopkirk]

The engines were actually on the rear fuselage rather than the wings.

https://cdn.jetphotos.com/full/5/37875_1498762786.jpg

One varient had to have a fourth engine, just used on take off. It was just too damned heavy to get airborne safely with the three.

[Smowball]

Morning hopkirk! I actually don’t remember mine. I’m assuming it was with my parents to Spain somewhere lol.

[1ozzy]

//Lozzy / mamy
Is that because you're scared of flying ?//

No Bazile, been in many a plane just not outside of the country I live in.

I've taken off in a plane more times than I've landed.

[Cloverjo]

How did you get to Oz, 1ozzy?

[1ozzy]

Big boat Clover, SS Canberra, as the offspring of 10 quid tourists ;-/

[wendilla]

Terrified of flying but braved it in 1960 in a dan air plane to Majorca looked like it was falling to bits compaired with the planes now .

[theshedman]

1ozzy, I too went there as a child of the 10 quid tourists but we travelled out there by plane. I did see the SS Canberra once on a day trip to Sydney it was a great looking ship. We came back though as mother was homesick. We came back on the RHMS Ellinis. Lovely 5 week trip with going through the Panama Canal being the highlight of it.

[johnk]

21 to Ireland in 1958 in a Viscount.

[1ozzy]

How long did your family stay downunder Shedman?
Where did they live while here?

We lived in a place called Bradfield park for about 6 months, terrible place, migrants one end, down and outs the other end. By that time my parents had bought a block of land and a house was built. If not I'm sure mum would have had us back in the UK.

[Ken4155]

My first flight from Luton to Hannover on 7 Apr 1973 (18yo) wasn't anything special and i honestly cannot remember anything of it, but 4 days later, from RAF Gutersloh to Aldergrove, Belfast was more memorable. It took place on a Lockheed Hercules where comfort was the least of considerations - think Boneshaker bicycles. It was memorable for 2 reasons; one of the RAF crew invited me to sit on the lowered tailgate with him for a smoke and, despite being terrified of heights, i did so. And, when the plane landed, i was expecting it to be met with a hail of bullets, so i hung back and allowed others to disembark ahead of me. When i didn't hear the bullets, i thought the 'enemy' were waiting for me. Such was the power of one-sided news bulletins i had viewed constantly for almost a year.

[theshedman]

1ozzy, we stayed just over 2 years. The rest of the family loved it but mother was homesick really from day one. We stayed at Unanderra Hostel which wasn't too bad and I went to school at Port Kembla. Father did look at buying but I think he knew mother wouldn't stick it. She is in her late 80s now and still lives a couples of miles from where she was born.

[Cloverjo]

1ozzy//I've taken off in a plane more times than I've landed.//

I’m a bit confused by this :) Unless you were in a plane when you posted this?

[1ozzy]

Took my mum 20 odd years to adjust Shedman, Dad loved the place from day one.

Grew up a bit north of Sydney, know the southern side very well.

Keen at parachuting when I was indestructible Clover, alas, I break easily these days ;-/