[Alas Babylon!]

I spent plenty of time in these seats, once for 12 hours. It always smelled horribly like kerosene, my feet were frozen and my head was sweating...

[Rinnwald]

Jet fuel is basically kerosene. I’d be alarmed if I smelled it on a flight.

[MeanWestTexan]

That was JP-8 or Jet A, not kerosine. Or maybe F24 if you are young.

Or maybe Jet B, depending on how far north you were and how cold it was.

They all smell the same — kerosine

[Dr. Franklin]

WOW!

Look at all that leg room! It would be great not to get whacked in the knees when the guy in front of me reclines his/her seat.

[GenXPolymath]

Only.real men can.fly over an ocean on what should be lawn furniture...bonus points if you jumped out rather than landed. Been there done that.

[jimtorr]

I spent hours in a seat like that in 1993. All of the C141’s were grounded, so it had to be a KC-135, in cargo mode. I was a civilian, escorting high value/high priority cargo from Travis AFB to Japan.

Kerosene, alternate hot and cold, crying baby (although the jet engine noise and earplugs mostly drowned him out). The wonderful AF boxed “meal”. We got to stay overnight at Elmendorf AFB, Anchorage, Alaska, because of the blizzard at our destination.

The best part of the flight was that our high value/high priority cargo bumped a colonel and his staff from the flight at Elmendorf.