I recommend the december issue of Air & Space!

As we're nearing the 100th anniversary of flight, I'd like to share some of the memories of flight I've had.

Apparently, I was only 9 months old when I first flew (to the States so that my mother could show me to her mother) that was december 1957; with my father and mother and I don't remember at all (of course;).
But in 1962, we did it again (mom, brother and myself) and it was a 36 hour long flight to Iceland and NY then Jamestown NY; the transatlantic flight was in a DC6 I believe (quadrimotor); I thought for a while we were escorted by 2 planes on each side, all the way (just the imagination).
I also remember a Cessna flight above Antwerp (I took the stick or the wheel) in 1969 and it was beautiful; the pilot flew us for 40 minutes but we paid for 20 minutes and we enjoyed it completely.
I been 11 times to the US, also to Tunisia, Israel, Turkey, France, Switserland, Sicily, with various planes.
But flying above the Grand Canyon was fabulous, also the helicopter ride from the bottom to the top!
It's while flying above Greenland glacier (around 1994) that I had a good look at the scenery and tried to concentrate on the event I was experiencing so high and so fast above the Earth so that I would never forget it.
My last flight was returning back from Guadeloupe (after the 1998 eclipse) to Paris: it's a flight that takes place above water for practically the entire time. I wasn't confortable and must admit that very often, nowadays, flying isn't as exciting as it used to be.
Well, smaller planes are the way to enjoy it.

Raoul