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In reply to the discussion: The sense of smell is know for bringing back memories. My favorite smell is cinnamon, What is your favorite? [View all]jmowreader
(52,554 posts)...but the old Air Force C-141's interior walls were covered with these gray blankets. They have an aroma unlike anything else I've smelled. It's not a bad smell, just distinctive.
At Seattle's Museum of Flight they have the very first Boeing 747 ever made. It's set up as it would be for flight testing. They've got all these big water barrels bolted to the floor and the only wall covering in the aircraft is the same gray blankets they used on the C-141. That same C-141 smell just...hit me.
So I get outside the plane and one of their docents wanted to know if I had any questions. "No...but you know how they say odors imprint on your brain and bring back memories when you smell them again? When I was in this aircraft it smells just like a C-141 so I started thinking of all the missions I went on in one of them."
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