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northzax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 02:09 PM
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15. 1990, I flew it several times.
From Helsinki to Moscow, Leningrad to Helsinki. On the flight into Moscow, my seat back didn't work. Big deal, you say, so you couldn't recline? on a three hour trip? deal. nope, I couldn't SIT UP. I spent the entire trip alternating between working my abs to stay upright and lying in the lap of the guy behind me. Who had a great sense of humour about it (he was Russian) he said something along the lines of "if I choose between broken seat and broken engine, I choose seat." I think he was plastered.

I still have my aeroflot pilot's wings...
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  -Aeroflot jiacinto  Oct-29-03 11:31 PM   #0 
  - I can affirm that Tupolev planes are still flying. I worked one last week  MercutioATC   Oct-29-03 11:35 PM   #1 
  - Tell us what it was like  jiacinto   Oct-29-03 11:40 PM   #3 
     - Worked one (I'm an air traffic controller), not flew one.  MercutioATC   Oct-29-03 11:51 PM   #8 
  - Unpleasant...  Sufi Marmot   Oct-29-03 11:40 PM   #2 
  - I love the hammer and sickle logo  jiacinto   Oct-29-03 11:42 PM   #4 
     - If I was travelling to Russia...  Sufi Marmot   Oct-29-03 11:47 PM   #5 
        - Well  jiacinto   Oct-29-03 11:51 PM   #7 
        - In March of 1977 that's exactly how I got to the Soviet Union.  dofus   Oct-30-03 06:31 AM   #11 
           - Have you flown it since then?  jiacinto   Oct-30-03 02:02 PM   #12 
  - My favorite Aeroflot story  WilliamPitt   Oct-29-03 11:47 PM   #6 
  - But weren't the only "choice"  jiacinto   Oct-29-03 11:52 PM   #9 
  - yeah  Kamika   Oct-30-03 05:19 AM   #10 
  - I suppose you could have taken the train as well  JVS   Oct-30-03 02:06 PM   #13 
  - The sign in JFK got vandalized once to make that read...  WannaJumpMyScooter   Oct-30-03 02:09 PM   #14 
  - Mine comes from a Hungarian kid I went to school with  BigMcLargehuge   Oct-30-03 02:21 PM   #17 
  - 1990, I flew it several times.  northzax   Oct-30-03 02:09 PM   #15 
     - You never flew from the US to Russia with Aeroflot  jiacinto   Oct-30-03 02:17 PM   #16 
        - hell no.  northzax   Oct-30-03 02:22 PM   #18 
           - Well  jiacinto   Oct-30-03 02:24 PM   #19 
           - Jeez  Forkboy   Oct-30-03 02:27 PM   #20 
 

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