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Post by lordevanelpuss on Feb 2, 2015 22:08:51 GMT
Flown three times in an AN2. In 1992 it was HA-ABJ from Popham to Debden where it was flying in an airshow there, then return to Popham. In 2007 I had a local 'jolly' in the based AN2 HA-MKF, which involved some flying alongside Tiger Moth G-AOBX. Then another flight in HA-MKF from Popham to Kemble in 2008, where she was a static exhibit. This was also a father's day pressie that year for my father. Twice in a Viscount in 1978, from LHR to BHX in British Midland's G-AZNB. Return flight about a week later in the same aircraft. Once in a DC3 in 2002. Dad & I on a visit to Air Atlantique at Coventry. We had a local 'Jolly' in G-AMRA. I mentioned another vintage type in my initial post. This was a local Jolly from Blackbushe in Dragon Rapide G-AIYR in 1991. Whilst visiting the National Aviation museum at Rockliffe, Ottawa in Canada in July 1993, I had a jolly in Stearman C-FFRF, my only time (so far) in an open cockpit aircraft.
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Post by keithh on Feb 2, 2015 22:47:26 GMT
My An2 was in Poland a few years back for the princely sum of £7! The Viscount was Northeast, LHR Guernsey, the Rapide was AIYR over London from Biggin and I did a Tiger from Blackbushe. My Dak was Eastern Humberside Rotterdam.
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Post by FL240 on Feb 3, 2015 9:49:16 GMT
My first flight was in a BA Merchantman late Seventies, first commercial flight was a BA 1-11 LHR-JER still remember the noise exiting the aft door down between the engines!
Been lucky to fly many different aircraft when I worked in the media, low level around Wales in a FJ takes some beating, newest aircraft I have flown on is one of the A350 test aircraft.
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Post by denwil189 on Feb 3, 2015 17:54:24 GMT
My first flight was from Thorney Island in 1956 with Auster G-AJIS, other interesting flights to Paris Air Show from LGW in Air Safari Viking in 1961, Yak 42 Air Ukraine from Murmansk to St. Petersburg worst flight I have ever had one that I thought that it was going to end in disaster, B17 on FAA test flight out of San Deigo, Cal. Ford Trimotor also from San Deigo, Tu134, Tu154 and Il96 Aeroflot all in Russia, Beaver Floatplane out of Vancouver Island.
Hopefully still a few interesting types still to come
Den
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Post by petervine on Feb 3, 2015 18:09:57 GMT
Here's my offering :
1st.Flight : G-AIGC Auster J.1. Thruxton 27/8/56. (and again 13/8/57). 1st.Jet : F-BJTA Caravelle(Air France). LHR-Orly 14/7/63. (Return by F-BHRJ). 1st.Piston Airliner : G-AGHS DC.3(Cambrian). Hurn-Orly 9/6/65. (Return by G-ALCC). 1st.Turbojet Airliner : G-AOYI Viscount(BEA.). Hurn-Jersey 8/5/65. (Return by G-ARER BUA). 1st.Trans-Atlantic : N93108 B.747(TWA). LHR-LAX 3/4/81. (Return by N93109). Shortest Reg. : N2Z Pa.28. Melbourne(FL)-Merritt Is. & return 25/4/84. Oldest Aircraft : N7584 Ford Trimotor(1928). Lakeland(FL) 16/4/88 - 8 minute circuit!
Cheers.............Peter V.
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Post by keithh on Feb 3, 2015 18:23:12 GMT
Great selection chaps, I thought that I was an old goat but you guys were flying before I was born.
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Post by keithh on Feb 3, 2015 18:35:08 GMT
My An2 was in Poland a few years back for the princely sum of £7! The Viscount was Northeast, LHR Guernsey, the Rapide was AIYR over London from Biggin and I did a Tiger from Blackbushe. My Dak was Eastern Humberside Rotterdam. The Dak flight was brilliant but there was a surprising story behind it. A Dutch aviation society had hired the aircraft to go to the Farnborough airshow and offered seats on the positioning legs to help with their costs. I forsook Farnborough for the chance to fly on a Dak and as it was about £20 I think and a chance to visit Rotterdam and Schipnol for very little. In the event, it flew less than half full as I think there were 16 seats and there were only seven pax on board. There were a couple of old men going just for a cheap weekend away, four BA employees on a bus mans holiday to spend the weekend in the red light district and me! There was a mistake with my hotel booking and I ended up staying at the one with the old chaps. Then when we returned one engine overheated and we were chased down the runway by the fire crews and the pilot turned off the engine after we touched down. Wouldn't have missed it for the world!
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Post by lordevanelpuss on Feb 3, 2015 20:23:55 GMT
Here's my offering : 1st.Flight : G-AIGC Auster J.1. Thruxton 27/8/56. (and again 13/8/57). 1st.Jet : F-BJTA Caravelle(Air France). LHR-Orly 14/7/63. (Return by F-BHRJ). 1st.Piston Airliner : G-AGHS DC.3(Cambrian). Hurn-Orly 9/6/65. (Return by G-ALCC). 1st.Turbojet Airliner : G-AOYI Viscount(BEA.). Hurn-Jersey 8/5/65. (Return by G-ARER BUA). 1st.Trans-Atlantic : N93108 B.747(TWA). LHR-LAX 3/4/81. (Return by N93109). Shortest Reg. : N2Z Pa.28. Melbourne(FL)-Merritt Is. & return 25/4/84. Oldest Aircraft : N7584 Ford Trimotor(1928). Lakeland(FL) 16/4/88 - 8 minute circuit! Cheers.............Peter V. In a similar vain: 1st Flight: G-AXSH PA28 Blackbushe 2/73 (again later on in 1973) 1st Jet: CF-CPT DC8 (CP Air) LGW-YVR (Via tech stop at - if I remember correctly - Edmonton) 9/76. Returned to LGW about 4 weeks later on the same DC8. Also my first trans-Atlantic flights. 1st Piston airliner: G-AIYR DH89 Blackbushe (local) 27/7/91. or Dak G-AMRA Coventry (local) 23/6/02. Discuss! 1st Propjet airliner: G-AZNB Viscount LHR-BHX 1978 (I know it was that summer and I returned BHX-LHR about a week later, again in *NB) 1st Helecopter: G-BBFB Jetranger Rushmoor Arena 1977. This was giving 'jollies' from that year's Army show. 1st Balloon: G-BNHS Thunder AX7/77 Launched from a site @ Runfold. Landed at a site @ Frith End 22/6/89 1st Seaplane: C-GDIZ Ce206 Sparrow Lake (ont) local 29/7/00. Floatplane if you prefer! Either way, it was my first (and so far only) experience of taking off & landing on water. 1st Glider: G-CFMH Schleicher ASK13 Lasham local 22/9/09. A 50th birthday pressie from my parents
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Post by denwil189 on Feb 3, 2015 21:05:12 GMT
Following on from my experience in the Yak 42, when we walked across the Apron to board the aircraft in a foot of snow on the apron, could'nt believe that Goats and dogs were going into the asisle with the passengers, plus bundles of baggage, which was pushed in by the passengers through the rear stairs, you could feel, what I would call control rods under your feet, then canvas seats with no seat belts, which when we asked the crew they only shrugged their shoulders. How they cleared the runway had to be seen to be believed, tractor towing a jet engine on a trailer down the runway.
I also spent time flying around in the wilderness on Mil 2 Hoplite, which is another story.
Den
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Post by keithh on Feb 3, 2015 21:27:37 GMT
Graham's 707 was G-AWWD B707-349C As for me it was BAC 1 11 509. G-AXYD on a day trip to the Hanover Air Show in May 1970. My first light flight was Cessna172B G-ARLU from Hurn to Compton Abbas in August of the same year. First jet and first flight, as above First piston, G-AIDL Rapide from Biggin, jolly over London First propjet, G-ARMX HS748 Lympne to Beauvais, Skyways First heli, G-LINK S61 Gatwick to Heathrow, BCAL Helicopters First balloon, G-BKXX, Cameron V65 Tingrith to Toddington (originally from Cranfield PFA) First seaplane, N2970 Grumman Mallard Watson Island (Miami) to Bimini Chalks First glider, BGA3656, Schleicher ASK13 from Talgarth First open cockpit, G-ACDJ DH82 jolly from Blackbushe First micro, G-CBTZ Pegasus Quantum jolly from Chiltern Park
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Post by dave on Jan 6, 2018 20:59:27 GMT
A late comer to this thread, actually looking for something else, but my first flight and it burst into flame my smouldering aviation interest, was in G-ADDI a Dragon Rapide from Squires Gate- Blackpool. It was 25mins flight around the tower, I sat in the odd seat at the rear, and could see straight into the c/pit and see the pilot, (a superman) who's RAF wings and medals i'd seen in a display cabinet, this was in 1954 and to my young mind wartime aircrew were supermen. Must say they still are...
regards, dave...
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Post by keithh on Jul 10, 2019 16:54:06 GMT
What a coincidence, if I remember I think it organised by Pettit and Thompson air tours. I count every sector as a flight even if it is in the same aeroplane. So a return flight is two flights etc A mate of mine booked it, I just gave him the dosh... I'll try to get my log out, I know I have a few gaps in it (reggies/no type) so would be good to compare... Cheers. Bill I was looking through this old thread again and I realised that I never checked my flight log. As suspected, we were on the same plane for this trip on 3rd May. We met before but never knew it!
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Post by Jeff on Jul 11, 2019 17:44:23 GMT
G ATPL 1-11 from LGW JER as an 18 year old, we decided we liked it so we booked to go to Pula when we got back, G-BEAL Tristar then took us to proper Abroad. Years later and with BMI ground handling threatening strike action us 'managers' (not sure where they got that title from) we're sent to ground handling training at STN, I picked push back cos it was January a flipping cold and pushback was in a cab with a heater 😁, anyway the Push back practice aircraft was non other than an engine less SE DPM ex G BEAL... funny how things like that happen, to top it off the last day of training 2 DC3s rocked up on our remote stand, talking to the pilots they had just been filming some sequences in a new film called 'saving private Ryan'
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Post by foxfire on Jul 14, 2019 20:20:57 GMT
My first flight was on BOAC VC10 G-ASGC out of Heathrow on 29 September 1969, a one hour pleasure flight over to the Channel Islands and back, organised by Ian Allen Travel, which departed from and returned to the cargo area. We somehow managed to bag seats in the first class section, possibly by dint of being first up the steps! The take off was seriously impressive and I realised later it was probably a 'max power V2 Climb' departure. I suspect the flight crew, with a very lightly loaded aircraft and those powerful Conways, decided to give the enthusiasts sitting behind them a thrill and have a bit of fun themselves! I took another Ian Allen one hour flight on a VC10 from Heathrow in 1970 on G-ASGK and later that same year flew transatlantic to Philadelphia and back on VC10s G-ARVE and G-ARVF. G-ASGC is, of course, now at Duxford and G-ARVF is in an aviation museum at Hermeskeil, Germany. Apologies for the murky picture - slide images don't age very well!
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Post by graham on Jul 15, 2019 6:39:44 GMT
A plane I'd always wanted to fly on, so envious foxfire. Thanks for the story and the great shot.
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Post by oakleaf1 on Jul 15, 2019 18:19:51 GMT
I flew on a VC-10 in 87 out of Brize when I was with the air scouts XV108 had a flight over Wales very impressed and it really felt weird as you sat facing the other way so it looked like you were always flying backwards.
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Post by leeflyer on Aug 20, 2019 14:55:08 GMT
G-APHY Twin Pioneer JF Airlines from Portsmouth early 70s
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Post by keefyboy on Aug 20, 2019 17:15:48 GMT
My first flight was on a school trip out of Heathrow to Geneva at Easter 68 on a Swissair Caravelle - I wish someone had told me about severe turbulence because what I experienced left me horrified of flying again. I spent the next 2 weeks with my school chums on and around Lake Lucerne worrying about the return flight which, thankfully, was a BEA Trident out of Berne to LHR and the trip was a breeze! A year after that I joined the Air Cadets which killed any fears I had of flying.
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