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Come to think of it, I don't think we flew that high in those days. Even when I flew back to the States on a Douglas DC-6B (Braniff) we flew through the Andes and not over them (I have the pictures to prove it). Guess that's why we always got chewing gum to clear our ears from the stewardess before take-off. However the gum bit carried on long into the jet age. Flew a lot of DC-3s around the Mid-West in (Piedmont and North Central) DC-3s and even the ballpoints leaked. Actually, I enjoyed those planes and the Super G Constellations and Convair 340s of that era, they flew low enough so you could actually see something interesting on the ground, after the 707s came in looking out the window lost a lot of its fascination. However, the Grand Canyon, on the L.A. to Chicago flight always caused me to look.