I got over my fear of flying on my first flight. My buddy and I, just graduated from high school in the summer of 1959, had a yen to fly in an airplane. A teacher at our school had a son who owned a plane, so we arranged for him to take us up, for two dollars each. We drove over to Nacogdoches, Texas, where he kept his plane, a small two-seater, front to back. Piper Cub, I think. Wings and fuselage had a canvas exterior.
Now what we had in mind was to go up, maybe a couple of thousand feet above the ground, and leisurely circle around looking at stuff. My buddy went up first. When he got back he had a strange look on his face, but I was getting aboard and didn’t have time to question him.
We got up, dunno how high, and I was peering out my side windows, looking at stuff. That didn’t last long. At some point he started putting that little plane through its paces: he did loops, barrel rolls and dives. For the finale he drove the thing straight up until it stalled, then peeled it off into an assortment of moves---all of which felt to me like a crash dive. I have always considered it a matter of great pride and honor that I did not scream, cry or puke.
Since then flying has been a piece of cake; I’ve flown in King Air, Queen Air, Lear jets, Westwinds, open cockpit and C-135, plus the full range of commercial. I’ve even been up in the Goodyear blimp. Never been up in a copter, though.
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