Saturday, October 4, 2025

My First Airplane Ride

 

The first time I was ever in an airplane was at the East Taunton Airport.  There was some kind of an air show with other events going on...it's been so long ago I forgot, but I was 14 years old. The runway was dirt, for I don't remember anything that looked like pavement or blacktop. There were airplane rides offered at a penny per pound.  As I was 140 pounds at the time, my dad paid the $1.40 for the short ride...which was about 10 or 15 minutes.  The only reason I'm writing this story is that the Air Force had a BOMARC missile on static display, the same missile that was on display at Lackland Air Force Base,* Texas when I entered the Air Force seven years later.

*And it's no longer there.

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