Back in ‘94 I went to Lockport NY for work and the plane I was to return from Buffalo on was unavailable, and so I ended up on a GM corporate jet. It was just a 45-minute hop back to Detroit Metro but what a ride! I believe it was a Cessna Citation III. The cockpit was only 6 feet from my seat and my view of the instrument panel was mostly unobstructed. The funny thing about it was that hardly anybody wanted to hear my story...You know, the “who cares?” attitude you can sense when it’s something really cool that happens and you just have to let somebody know?
Who cares?
Forty-five years ago my girlfriend and I took a Grumman seaplane from Long Beach to Catalina Island for the day. It had about nine seats for passengers, but they also put a passenger (me) in the copilot's seat. Now that was fun!