2025-04-05
33 分钟I'm old enough to remember when you got on an aeroplane and there was one TV for every cabin,
even on a long-haul flight.
There was a whirring noise,
then a screen smaller than the average laptop would come down from the ceiling.
You'd plug in headphones with wide rubber tubes provided by the airline.
No one had their own headphones in those days.
Then you'd crane your neck to get a peek at the screen.
Heaven help you if the film had subtitles.
That was a time when flying was still a luxury.
You'd get free flight socks and an eye mask.
Smoking used to be allowed.
Pre-911, we used to eat our airline meals with metal cutlery.
Remember that?
I still think of those early, rare flying experiences sometimes.
But not once had I wondered what happened to that generation of planes when they were retired.
Until now.
I'm Rosie Bloor and today on the weekend intelligence,
my colleague Leo Morani goes on the hunt for the airliners of yesteryear.
He's a plane geek, so expect some fuselage details.
But he's also delved into the strange afterlife of those magnificent flying machines.