Your first flight...

[thatone1967]

Sort of high jacked from comments on another thread.. what was your first flight? mine was a Lufthansa 727 to Germany when I was about 16 or so, around 1983.


Edited because I cannot spell and there is no such country as "Germamy"

Edited by thatone1967 on Thursday 16th September 18:38

[-crookedtail-]

I don't have a great memory of my first flight as I was very young, it was to Ireland on something like a Short 360. Horrible thing it was too.

My first 'proper' flight was to the states on a Northwest 747 in '94, I remember being very excited as I was going to be on a Jumbo. I only wish I was as excited these days when I get on a plane, more torture than anything else usually

Edited by -crookedtail- on Thursday 16th September 18:11

[Simpo Two]

Some kind of Cessna from Clacton airport, c. 1970.

[Sheets Tabuer]

Mine was a cessna when I was 8, I'd been sent up to deliver a weather report for the radio

The pilot thought it hilarious to make the plane jump about while I had the mic on so all the people at home could hear was gobbledygook intermixed with screams.

[eccles]

Like many, mine was in a Chipmunk with the Air cadets.( flying out of Filton.)

[Z06George]

When I was a bit younger, flew from Gatwick to LA via Miniapolas(I know this is wrong sorry) in a DC-10 North-West airlines, seat 1A

[marksx]

eccles said:

Like many, mine was in a Chipmunk with the Air cadets.( flying out of Filton.)

I'm jealous. I was too late to fly a chipmunk

I had flights in the Bulldogs, and just before I left, the Grob.

My first ever flight was to portugal on an Airbus. But I was only 7 so can't remember the model.

[anonymous-user]

Cessna at Stapleford Tawney airshow around 1980 time. remember looking down and seeing the M25 being built. Would have been about 5 at the time.

Think I have a photo of the plane parking up with myself and my Dad in.

[tank slapper]

Mine was in Cessna 152 G-BKTT, also from Stapleford. We first flew west over Walthamstow, then back east to Hanningfield reservoir and back. By the time we got back to the airfield the weather had turned rather unpleasant and it was throwing it down with rain. On landing, the spay thrown up made it look more like a speedboat than an aircraft.

[DrTre]

Aeroflot from Kiev to Moscow. With a budgie flying round the cabin.

[mcdjl]

anonymous said:

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I've always known it as Stapleford Abbotts but had my first (and last) flying lesson there when I was 16 (long before i drove a car). My first flight was another Cessna with the prop on the nose and 6 of us in it from Skegness.

[Roop]

Circa 1980 Dan Air BAC 'Loud B'stard' 111

[knight]

Very early 80's, Bcal 1-11 from Man to LGW

[Elroy Blue]

1979- Dan Air Comet on a school trip to Italy. Sat againstthe front bulkhead facing a very nice young girl and her monster mother.

[steviejasp]

I used to spend all my money on my old Chevy so didnt get to fly until my honeymoon in 1992. Went to the Maldives on a Air Lanka Tristar with knackered air con, nice.

[knight]

Roop said:

Circa 1980 Dan Air BAC 'Loud B'stard' 111

I started working for them in 1989 and loved the 1-11 In fact one of my fondest memories is of standing under the starboard engine whilst waiting for the demin water to be pumped onboard for a highpower engine run after an engine change, and for the guys on the flightdeck to start it up, then proceeding to give it max power! Really gratefull I had my ear defenders on that day!

[CanAm]

eccles said:

Like many, mine was in a Chipmunk with the Air cadets.( flying out of Filton.)

Ditto, out of Woodvale.

[perdu]

I think I know that "other thread"

My first was at RAF Shawbury

dH Chipmunk (My Cadet Log Book says 18/3/62- 303Chip- Air Exp- 25mins)

Possibly the best 25 minutes of my life 'cos it set the seal on it.



logbook added

Edited by perdu on Thursday 16th September 20:16

[S7Paul]

1965. British Eagle Britannia from Heathrow to Rimini.

[Pothole]

1971/2? Boeing 747 Singapore to Perth. I got to go up on the flight deck and was suitably impressed by the seeming millions of dials and switches.