Absolute Michigan's Michigan Blog: Essay: Flying Right - 2/27/06 by Jack Lessesnberry's Essays and Interviews

Wednesday, March 01, 2006

Essay: Flying Right - 2/27/06 by Jack Lessesnberry's Essays and Interviews

Jack Lessenberry writes: Thirty years ago, I first flew Aeroflot, the Soviet state airline. The cabins were fairly primitive, and reeked with a strange sickly-sweet disinfectant I have never smelled anywhere else.

But the fares were cheap -- there were peasants on some flights carrying produce, and even live chickens. The pilots believed in military-style takeoffs and landings; straight up and straight down.

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