February 17Feb 17 On 2/15/2026 at 9:51 PM, alanw2005 said: Wow! You have an impeccable memory. My first widebody experience was on an Air Canada 747. My second widebody experiece was on an Air Canada L1011. A mind blowing experiece after flying on Air Canada stretched DC-8s. I forgot about those bathrooms!! I had also forgotten about those bathrooms, but seeing the picture, I remember them now! It was around mid 1990's I was booked on a Continental DC-10 from Frankfurt to Newark, but at check in the agent told me the flight was cancelled due to a snowstorm shutting down Newark. He handed me some paperwork and told me to go to Delta for a flight to JFK. I said won't JFK be closed too, but he said no. Later on board the Delta L1011 about halfway across the Atlantic the captain came on and said Kennedy's just been shut, but we already anticipated that. We've got plenty of extra fuel and we're going to Atlanta. So I had a long flight in an L1011. It was very comfortable. I very much enjoyed it!
February 17Feb 17 Author 2 hours ago, Antipodeslonghaul said: I had also forgotten about those bathrooms, but seeing the picture, I remember them now! It was around mid 1990's I was booked on a Continental DC-10 from Frankfurt to Newark, but at check in the agent told me the flight was cancelled due to a snowstorm shutting down Newark. He handed me some paperwork and told me to go to Delta for a flight to JFK. I said won't JFK be closed too, but he said no. Later on board the Delta L1011 about halfway across the Atlantic the captain came on and said Kennedy's just been shut, but we already anticipated that. We've got plenty of extra fuel and we're going to Atlanta. So I had a long flight in an L1011. It was very comfortable. I very much enjoyed it! Restaurants and Night Clubs now have single unisex bathrooms that look like the ones in the L1011. The L1011 started a trend. Flight Sim Software/Hardware: MSFS 2020 Premium Deluxe | MSFS 2024 Aviator | X-Plane Mobile 12 | X-Plane 12 | Thrustmaster TCA Captain Pack Airbus Edition | Thrustmaster TCA Yoke Pack Boeing Edition | Honeycomb Alpha Flight Controls | Honeycomb Bravo Throttle Quadrant | Turtle Beach Velocity One Rudder | Xbox wireless controller | Stream Deck + | Flight Radar 24 Gold | Navigraph | Simbrief | WINCTRL PAP 3 MAG, 3N PDC, 3M PDC & PFP 7 | Wingflex A320 EFIS, RMP & FCU Cube | 3rd Party Hanger: Fenix: A319, 320, 321 | Flight Factor: 777-200ER with engine variants | Flight FX: HondaJet HA420 | FlyJSim: Dash 8 Q400 | Hot Start: Challenger 650 | iFly: 737 Max | iniBuilds: A350 | PMDG: 737-800, 777-200ER, 777-300ER, DC-6 | Toliss: A321 with engine variants | Zibo: 737-800 Computer Equipment: Intel i7-13000K | Asus Tuf Z790 | 64 GB Corsair Ram | 2 TB NVMe OS Drive | 4 TB NVMe Game Drive | 3 X 4TB SATA Data Drives | Windows 11 | Asus Dual RTX 4070 CAE Full Motion Flight Simulator Experience: Boeing 737, Boeing 767, Boeing 787 Real Aircraft Flying Experience: Schempp-Hirth Janus, Cessna 172 and Cessna 185 https://www.youtube.com/@CYVRAviation
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