I've never flown, only time I've been in an aircraft was the C-47 at York, oh, and the raid on the Canberra, although that was about a fifth of an aircraft.
Thought I was going to get a chance next year on a jaunt to Bavaria but sadly there wasn't enough money for both me, the wife and the mother in law to go to her cousins wedding so I got left on the tarmac.
Good recommendations here though on the emergency aisle seat, I'll have to pass that on to the missus although height really isn't an issue for her (

) but her mother is quite tall.
I'm going to try and get her an mp3 or CD or something of 'What goes up might come down' for her to listen to, it's hilarious:
Cracks me up
every time.
Oh, and just found this by the late great Dave Allen: