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Re:Drop the Supersonic Aircraft Ban by schoen on Monday June 13, 2016 @06:31PM (#11898283)
Oh yeah, I remember being invited to visit the cockpit once as a kid (I don't remember whether it was on the ground or in-flight). I guess it was common on some airlines for the flight attendants to look around for kids and invite them up to meet the pilots.

Apparently in the 1960s to early 1970s, you could buy your ticket on the plane. (I wasn't around to have experienced that.)

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Re:Drop the Supersonic Aircraft Ban by keenerd on Monday June 13, 2016 @10:23PM (#11899344)
Around that same period was the peak for plane hijackings - almost one per week in 1969. Cuba was the typical destination, 34 times that year.
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