Your first ever flight

[JeremyH5]

Aircraft I have flown in
Vickers Viscount 802
Piper Aztec
Lockheed Tristar L1011
Boeing 747-100
Boeing 737-200
Cessna 152
Cessna 182
Piper Tomahawk (Soloed)
Grob G109 (took control under instruction)
Airbus A320
Airbus A319
Airbus A321
Boeing 757-200
Airbus A340
Boeing 747-400
DH89 Dragon Rapide
DeHavilland Beaver float plane
Robin R2160 (flew stall turns, loops, aileron rolls under instruction)
Supermarine Spitfire Tr.9 ML407 ( took control for 10 minutes under instruction)
Robinson R44 (G-OTJS week before it was blown over in a storm)
Piper PA28 Arrow

[magpie215]

JeremyH5 said:

Supermarine Spitfire Tr.9 ML407 ( took control for 10 minutes under instruction)

Nice

[JeremyH5]

magpie215 said:

Nice

Yes.
Hopefully going to have another go as my retirement present next year. The money shot.

[McGee_22]

My first flight was mid-Atlantic in an RN Lynx; straight into a roll then a loop then after a few curcuits round the ship the Pilot decided to buzz the bridge.

1986, HMS Fife, Sea Training Ship, Great Lakes trip, Fleet Air Arm training week.

[wolfie28]

Can't remember the aircraft but it was Birmingham to Tangiers about 1980. I would of been a young lad and my only memories were of pure excitement and the smoke that filled the plane from all the smokers. Got to go to the cockpit during the flight too. How times have change eh!!

I know it is not an aircraft but being a passenger with the USAF in a Subaru Impreza tearing down the runway like a scalded cat chasing a U2 spy plane that had just landed was pretty exciting. Once we caught up and the U2 had stopped the outriggers were fitted so the aircraft could taxi and clear the runway.

Edited by wolfie28 on Thursday 27th February 01:56

[GT03ROB]

Aircraft types:

Airbus....

A319
A320
A320neo
A321
A321neo
A330
A340
A380

Boeing....
B707
B727
B737-100/200/400/800
B747-200/400/Combi
B757
B767
B777-200/300
B787-8/9

Trident
Tristar
DC-10
DC-3
Comet
Bristol 170
Dash 8 300/400
ATR72
Fokker 50
Embraer 190
IL-62
Yak42
Tu154
HS146

Various other light aircraft & helicopters

...oh yeah and Concorde

[Mrtee]

my first ever flight??

the evening of the 21st December 1988 - an AirUK "shuttle" from Edinburgh to Gatwick to collect my sister and drive her home (to Edinburgh, up the A74) that weekend.

Not the best day to start flying.... and not the best weekend to try driving up the A74.

[aeropilot]

Mrtee said:

my first ever flight??

the evening of the 21st December 1988 - an AirUK "shuttle" from Edinburgh to Gatwick to collect my sister and drive her home (to Edinburgh, up the A74) that weekend.

Not the best day to start flying.... and not the best weekend to try driving up the A74.

[Yertis]

GT03ROB said:

Aircraft types:

Airbus....

A319
A320
A320neo
A321
A321neo
A330
A340
A380

Boeing....
B707
B727
B737-100/200/400/800
B747-200/400/Combi
B757
B767
B777-200/300
B787-8/9

Trident
Tristar
DC-10
DC-3
Comet
Bristol 170
Dash 8 300/400
ATR72
Fokker 50
Embraer 190
IL-62
Yak42
Tu154
HS146

Various other light aircraft & helicopters

...oh yeah and Concorde

That's a lot of first flights.

[52classic]

OK, so we'll leave out moderns.........

My list, more or less in chronological order is:-

Canadair 4 Argonaut.
Douglas DC 6.
Auster MK5.
Dragon Rapide.
Victa Airtourer.
Cessna 172B
Viscount 800
Cherokee 140
Cherokee Arrow
Gardan Horizon.

[GT03ROB]

Yertis said:

That's a lot of first flights.

Think thread had moved on to what types of planes have you flown!

[Elroy Blue]

Aircraft flown.

Civil airliners- They all look the same, but the Comet stands out.
Ilyushin 18
DH Dragon Rapid
DC3
Cessna 150
Piper Tomahawk
Beech Baron
Jetranger
Squirrel
Eurocopter EC 145
Longranger
Huey
Lynx
Sea King
Gazelle
Hawker Hunter T8
Harrier T4

[Escapegoat]

Wow. The thread's descended into a rather bizarre willy waving competition.

[Elroy Blue]

Don't read it then. I'm interested in what people have flown in

[Escapegoat]

Elroy Blue said:

Don't read it then. I'm interested in what people have flown in

So am I, but the word you missed out - "first" - was in the thread title. That made it more interesting than this dull braggadocio listing.

[2xChevrons]

I find the lists quite interesting, if only for the wide variety that some people have experienced. So I'm going to add to it:

(In alphabetical order - I tried doing it chronologically and it just got messy!)

Airbus A300
Airbus A319
Airbus A320
Airbus A321
Airbus A340
Antonov An-2
Avro RJ
BAe 146
Bombardier Dash-8
Boeing 727
Boeing 737
Boeing 747
Boeing 757
Boeing 767
Britten-Norman Islander
Britten-Norman Trislander
Cessna F172H
DeHavilland DH89 Rapide
DeHavilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter
Lockheed L1011 Tristar
McDonnell Douglas DC-10
McDonnell Douglas MD-11
McDonnell Douglas MD-80
Piper PA-38 Tomahawk (flown under instruction)
Piper PA-28 Warrior (instruction and a couple of solo circuits)
Sikorksy S-61N

[Halmyre]

Found a picture of the Lockheed (cough ) MD-11 I mentioned earlier, my first long-haul flight, Schiphol to Vancouver.



The plane was named 'Audrey Hepburn'. Hepburn's last film was 'Always', in which she plays the spirit guide to a dead pilot. I think KLM didn't think this through.

A rather shorter-haul flight:

[Falconer]

DanAir VickersViscount Gatwick to Jersey 1986, although I had several flights in air cadet gliders many years before.

[Riley Blue]

Falconer said:

DanAir VickersViscount Gatwick to Jersey 1986, although I had several flights in air cadet gliders many years before.

A Grasshopper? My school's CCF had one in the '60s. It flew about twice a year across the playing field, never more than a couple of feet off the ground and no more than a hundred yards or so.

[Rogue86]

I don't really take much notice of the civvie stuff Ive flown on, but I've collected some images of some of the various military stuff I've flown on over the years. There's a few I dont have images of (KC135, C17, Chipmunk) but here are some for anyone interested.

Hawk:


SeaKing:


C130 (cheap seats, ended up sleeping on the cargo instead!):


E3-D (more exciting from the outside):


Dakota:


Lancaster (rear gun):


(mid-upper)


(bomb-aimer)


(nose)


Typhoon:




Only civvie one I have a photo of, an EC130: