I am sitting here at Arlanda airport outside of Stockholm waiting for my flight to Geneva and I just started thinking back to the first time I was on an airplane as a young kid back in 1961 or so. The plane was a Douglas DC3 operated by Scandinavian Airlines and I remember that when you boarded it, there was a steep climb up to your seat because the plane was leaning heavily. Low at the aft and really high at the nose.
![SAS operated Douglas DC3 late 1950's early 1960's](http://thelosangeleno.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/SAS_DC31.jpg)
![Closeup of the DC3](http://thelosangeleno.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/SAS_DC3_b.jpg)
![Douglas DC6 interior, but from what Iz recall it was very similar with curtains and all.](http://thelosangeleno.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/SAS_Interior.jpg)
![SAS Advertising material with hostess from as early as 1948](http://thelosangeleno.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/SAS_Hostess_1948.jpg)