alt Hacker NewsThat sounds a bit weird, the 747 didn't enter commercial service until 1970.
A 1950s flight experience would have been on something with piston engines and propellors, like a DC-6 or a Super Constellation. Noisy, turbulent, and not particularly safe by modern standards.
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OroPla • yesterday at 10:38 PM
That's because the 1950s were seventy years ago, not fifty, which only brings you back to the 1970s.
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I flew in piston airliners long ago. They fly low and slow, and barf bags are supplied for a reason (low altitude means lots of turbulence).
Today's airliners fly high where the air is smooth, they've gotten very good at avoiding turbulent weather, and there are automated damping systems. The barf bags are still there, but I've never seen anyone use one.
The cool thing about piston airliners, though, is the the engine start.