I did the same on my first flight, England to America. I was very shy with the loud American pilots, but I'm sure I wasn't the first shy English boy they'd met.

I did the same on my first flight, England to America. I was very shy with the loud American pilots, but I'm sure I wasn't the first shy English boy they'd met. This was in the mid 1990s, and the cabin crew invited me to look. I don't think there were many children on the plane.