It would be interesting to know which types members have flown in, whether like me its mostly through begging, being lucky or sometimes paying.I would imagine some folks have had military experience as well so there should be some interesting experiences there.
You should exclude ‘Easyjet 737 etc !!!
Here’s my short list to kick off with:-
Wessex (Lots of flights whilst serving TAVR)
C130 – again in TAVR
VC10 – Compliments of RAF BZN
Tristar – ” ” “
Tiger Moth –
Percival Prentice
Twin Pin
DC3
Miles Magister
Bulldog
Chipmunk
Cessena 152 & 172
Piper (Single engined 4 seater, cant remember type)
Cessena Citation (Almost fast jet performance)
Various Microlights
Twin Squirrel
Jet Ranger
I’m sure there are others, just cant remember at the moment.
Phil
By: Jim_Harley - 28th January 2002 at 18:04
RE: Flying experience
I’ll have a go at this one…I’ll exclude the spam cans.
B-17 Aluminum Overcast about 20 minutes dual 1hr. total
B-17 909 about 30min. dual 1.5 hr total
TF-51D Crazy Horse 1hr dual
P-51D Petie 2nd
SNJ 2hr. dual
B-25 Gaurdian of Freedom 1hr. dual
Waco UPF-7 30hrs.
Christen Eagle
Piper Cub
Marquart Charger
Ford Tri motor (kalamazoo)
This is a testament of how generous those in the warbird world are with thier aircraft. Lots of great flying!
jim
By: Arabella-Cox - 28th January 2002 at 18:00
RE: Flying experience
Okay then:
Sat in / clambered over;
Spitfire ML427
Beaufighter X7688
Mosquito TA122
Fury replica (Belgian registered)
DC3
Viscount
Magister
Messenger
(all the above at Skysport over the last few years)
Lancaster PA474
Beaufighter A19-144
Vulcan
Various Victors (57 Sqn 1986)
Flown in (rear seat / self-loading cargo);
Chipmunks (various, including WB569 now at Duxford)
Beagle Husky (all ex-5 AEF people will know the one!)
VC10 (RAF)
Jaguar T2 (RAF)
Chinook (RAF)
Puma (RAF)
UH-1 (Exercise with US National Guard. Abseiled out of this)
UH-60 (Ditto, but stayed in it!)
Chinook (US Army bussing us around)
Flown P1;
Venture T1 (motor glider at 616VGS Halton)
C150 / 152
Currently re-qualifying for PPL on PA28-140
By: Old Dog Flying - 28th January 2002 at 17:47
RE: Flying experience
The memory needed a jogging and some of these posts reminded me of a few more that I’ve flown as PIC:
Mooney Executive, Rockwell 112TCA, Christen Husky, Fleet Canuck, Beechcraft 35, Beechcraft 23R, Sundowner, Stearman, Antanov AN2, Ercoupe, Taylorcraft, T28(dual), Navion
As Passenger/Crew:
C47, Canso SAR, North Star, Lancaster, C119G
Missed Out on a ride in Sea Fury (Cottonmouth II)previously owned by a good friend Jerry Janes of Vancouver. Also missed a ride in the RCAF Comet..gave up my seat to help a Cdn Army type get his injured daughter to hospital in timely order. Missing that flight was worth it.
Barney, with a flying bug
By: Moggy C - 28th January 2002 at 16:36
RE: Flying experience
Here’s mine (Interesting ones only – spam-cans omitted)
BEEN IN ON GROUND
F4 Phantom
A10 Thunderbolt
Sally B
Killer Cat PBY5
Sultan of Oman’s VC10
HE 111 (CASA)
Sea Vixen
Skyraider
FLOWN IN
Viking
Varsity
Dominie (Biplane not jet)
Shackleton
DH Fox Moth
DC3
DC6
Viscount 700 Srs
T6 Harvard
FLOWN
Pitts S2
Chipmunk
Tiger Moth
Stearman
FLOWN P1
Yak 52
Dagling (1940s training glider)
Moggy
By: JASE - 28th January 2002 at 10:06
RE: Flying experience
Here’s mine..a bit modern as I,m a lot younger than Uncle Keithmac
puma 33sqn/230sqn/240ocu
chinook 7sqn
bulldog
vc10
c130
tristar
e3d
chinook US ARMY
uh1 low level doors open!
uh60
andover
–
been in -KeithMac will remember these, as he was there–
mirage F1CR
mirage 111
mirage v
f4 (fgr2)
f4 (rf4)
alpha jet
f16
tornado(gr1)(f3)
harrier(gr3)
By: Steve Bond - 28th January 2002 at 08:18
RE: Flying experience
OK then, I’ll have a go. Ignoring modern airliners, I have flown in:
Britannia
Viscount
DC-3
DC-4
KC-135
Hawk
Wessex
Chipmunk
Bulldog
Andover
Stinson Detroiter
Tiger Moth
Dragon
Stampe
T-6
Beaver (floatplane)
Jetstream
HS.125
Slingsby T.67
Vagabond
Cherokee
Tomahawk (Piper version unfortunately!)
Trident
BAC.111
VC10
Dash 8
Cessna 150
Cessan 210
By: alexis_lambert - 28th January 2002 at 01:01
RE: Flying experience
I am not a pilot but i love to be thrown around the sky as often as my missus and the money allows. Unfortunatly flying in the U.K is an over-expensive hobby. Myself and a few friends from work save every week then when there is enough we fly, none of that boring straight and level stuff but high G aerobatics. We’ve had a few let downs with pilots promising this and that but they’ve never come through.
The aircraft i have flown in are Extra 300, this gives the ultimate ride and is my most flown type, i have also flown in an L-29 Delphin unfortunatly lost at Eastbourne, then there is the Harvard, had 1 ride over here, very mediochre, then went to Florida and went up for an hour with Warbird Adventures, this is the best ride on offer, unless you can afford Stallion 51 which do the same as the Harvard crew but with Mustangs, which brings me to a ride i won with the Tiger Squadron at Duxford where i won a ride in the Breitling Fighter Mustang, ORGASMIC. I have also flown in a Christen Eagle and a Stearman, they were different, Yak-52 is o.k depending on who’s flying it.
Top of my wish list is the Hawker Hunter followed closely by the Gnat,but to fly in one of these in this country is a rip off, a Hunter costs about £800 for an hour, whys the cheapest ride £1500 then, in the U.S you could get a ride in a 2-seat Super Sabre or Starfighter for that.I would like a ride in an L-39 and Yak-11.
The list could go on but the bank account don’t allow it.
By: Ashley - 27th January 2002 at 10:31
RE: Flying experience
[updated:LAST EDITED ON 27-01-02 AT 10:34 AM (GMT)]Hmmmph…well I’ve flown in a Dragon Rapide and have a flight over Duxford in an Auster arranged 🙂
Aircraft I’ve been in though…Lancaster, Spitfire, Vulcan, Sea Vixen, Vampire, Sunderland, B-17 (Sally B :)), Catalina, Lysander, B-52, Dakota, Hercules, Nimrod and most of the civil airliners at Duxford…
The three I really want to fly in are Spitfire, Blenheim and Lysander…well and the Lancaster too…and the Hunter…and so on 🙂
By: YakRider - 27th January 2002 at 10:30
RE: Flying experience
Aircraft I’ve flown in as a passenger:
DH Chipmunk (RAF St Mawgan 1971)
HS Nimrod (RAF St Mawgan 1971)
HS Andover (RAF Abingdon 1971)
Percival Pembroke (RAF Wildenrath 1972)
Percival Prentice (Coventry)
Douglas DC-3 (Coventry)
Antonov AN-2 (Schaffen Diest Old Timers Fly-in, Belgium)
Cessna 172
Cessna 175
Piper PA28-181-R Arrow
Aircraft I’ve flown:
Slingsby Cadet (RAF Halton 1972) ? Glider
Sedburgh (RAF Halton 1972) ? Glider
Cessna C152
Piper PA28-161 Warrior
Grumman AA5A Traveler, AA5B Tiger
Morane Saulnier Rallye 880
Yak 52
DH Tiger Moth
Static aircraft cockpits I’ve been inside (non airshow):
Avro Lancaster (Duxford)
Avro Shackleton (RAF St Mawgan 1971, Coventry, Newark)
Avro Vulcan (Coventry, Newark)
F104 Starfighter (Coventry)
F4 Phantom (Coventry)
AW Seahawk (Coventry)
AW Argosy (RAF Tangmere 1969, Coventry)
HP Dart Herald (Bournemouth)
Hawker Hunter (Bournemouth)
Westland Wessex (RAF Odiham 1969)
By: Old Dog Flying - 27th January 2002 at 03:12
RE: Flying experience
Interesting bag of aircraft. Over the past 50 years I’ve managed to get my hands on a few:
DeHavilland DH53 Hummingbird
” DH60 Gypsy Moth
” DH82C Tiger Moth
” DHC1 Chipmunk
DHC2 Beaver
Cessnas: 120 through 206
Pipers: J3,Pa11, PA12, PA14, PA16, PA20, PA22, PA28(All Models), PA32, PA44, PA38
Grumman AA1A, AA5A, HU16
Porterfield, Taylorcraft, Fleet Fawn, Helio Courier, Beech 18, Stinson 108-3,NA Harvard, T33, CF104D, CT114 Tutor, Aeroncas of all types, Decathalon, About 10 different types of gliders, And more than a few more..but then the memory is the first thing to go.
Just over 4000 hours with 50th anniversary of my first flight coming up 2 July 02.
By: Halibag - 26th January 2002 at 23:22
RE: Flying experience
Four motors sounds good to me! 🙂
Halibag
By: Bluebird Mike - 26th January 2002 at 22:01
RE: Flying experience
Although on my last visit to Hendon the sadness of the wreck and what it represents really hit me, I do think a full, genuine Halifax restoration in the UK would be a good thing, and she’d make for great comparison with the Lanc, too.
Your mate with four motors,
Lancman
By: Halibag - 26th January 2002 at 21:16
RE: Flying experience
[updated:LAST EDITED ON 26-01-02 AT 09:23Â PM (GMT)]Lancman,
Hendon’s Halibag is very sorry looking inside! She has had her entire innards pulled out & shoved in a store somewhere & the whole of her interior is finished with that horrible red waxoyl dye.
They won’t normally let anyone near her, but we got a special dispensation to get in as we are involved in the restoration of NA337. The floor is extremely fragile & it wouldn’t take much to pop right through into the bomb bay.
There are noises about restoring her though, although if that happens, it will have to be a total strip down & many parts will have to be replaced due to corrosion…. Ever hopeful though.
Halibag
By: Bluebird Mike - 26th January 2002 at 11:18
RE: Flying experience
Halibag, what’s it like inside the Hendon Halibag then? I’m surprised they let people inside it actually. I used to have quite a few looks inside Hendon aircraft, like the Sunderland before it went public (you miss so much now from the areas you can’t go in) and of course the Lancaster before they jacked her tail up onto that ridiculous little plinth thing. Spits, B17, Vulcan, Catalina, I’ve been inside a few but only flown (historic-wise that is) in a Tiger Moth and a Rapide.
By: Ja Worsley - 26th January 2002 at 10:24
RE: Flying experience
Keithmac, was the Wirlwind of 28Sqdn the Twin WWII type of the Helo Wirlwind?
If it was the former, could you talk more about it, and maybe some pics, I love this little beast and belive that with a bit of mods it could have been one of the best during the war!
May you find more mercy in Hell, cause you won’t get it from me!
By: Halibag - 26th January 2002 at 01:21
RE: Flying experience
Having been inside the following
Non Flying Status with one exception
(sorry for cheating):-
Lancaster PA474
Lancaster NX611
Lancaster FM213
Lancaster KB889
Halifax “LV907”
Halifax NA142*
Halifax W1048
Halifax PN323
Halifax NA337
Halifax HR792
That’s why I’m called “Halibag” 🙂
By: keithmac - 26th January 2002 at 00:11
RE: Flying experience
Anson – Stn Flt RAF Scampton
Chipmunk – RAF and Kenya AF
Beaver – KAF
Caribou – KAF
Beverley – RAF 84 Sqn
Whirlwind – RAF 28 Sqn
Wessex – RAF 28 Sqn
Hercules – RAF various
VC-10 – RAF 10 Sqn
Puma – RAF 18 Sqn
Chinook – RAF 18 Sqn
UH-1 Canadian AF Goose Bay Rescue Flt
Britannia – RAF & Transglobe
Tornado – 12 Sqn -(My retirement ride with the Sqn boss!)
and many airliners of assorted types, the best of which was Raffles Class Singapore Airlines 747 to Singapore & back paid for by you taxpayers!!
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