Aircraft you wish you could still go on

mrtotty, the thing that always struck me about flying on the Tu134, was the real ‘punch’ pushing you back in the seat, as the initial take off roll began, followed by a phenomenal rate of climb……oh and the noise;)

Something I can only imagine now. What a shame.
Has anyone flown a TU-104/114? Admittedly, you’d have to be cracking on a bit now.

Excellent story Mr Interflug62M, the stuff dreams are made from.

Love the Aviogenex 134’s, great memories, they use to be very common in the summer skies around Manchester!

sorry i was only 8, there is a good pic from jetphotos i have attached of a Aviogenex at Dubrovnic about same time

cockerhoop, during my Stansted days, we used to see the Aviogenex 134s twice a week in summer. I can’t be sure wether they had that check on every turnround. Did they do that to your flights both ways? If not , then it may have been a check in/boarding pass problem at either end. If all other attempts to solve the discrepancy have failed, the final solution was to do the tarmac baggage ID. Tarom was an airline that used to do that for every departure, great fun for the passengers, especially when it was raining!

mrtotty, the thing that always struck me about flying on the Tu134, was the real ‘punch’ pushing you back in the seat, as the initial take off roll began, followed by a phenomenal rate of climb……oh and the noise;)

i did an aviogenex TU-134A in the 4th cockpit seat in 1972 fro Dubrovmnik to Manchester, i was 8 at the time.
something else i remember is the first 8 rows of the plane were made up of groups of 4 seats facing each other with a table like on a train.
Also Aviogenex made passengers identify their luggage on the tarmac prior to boarding, was it security?

It is certainly interesting. I can only say that I am very jealous.
A TU-134 would be on my list of all-time greats. Imagine the noise and the wonderful smoky take-offs.

For me it has to be flying all the way in the glass nose of a Tupolev 134.

I was lucky enough to have done that (sans beer). Back in ’81 when I was working in ABZ for an outfit called Air Ecosse. Living near CBG at the time, it was not always possible to get home for my 4 days off. On this particular occasion, I was bumped from a Dan Air flight to LGW, so I gave up the idea of getting home that week. Later that same day I went up to our offices, as there was an Aeroflot Tu134 coming in. It was bringing in trawler crew members and then positioning empty to LHR. After getting my first look inside one of these things and chatting to the crew, they offered me a lift to LHR!. The flight itself went much too fast. About 10-15 mins out from LHR I was gestured to the flight deck. I expected to be put in a ‘jump seat’ for the landing as I was for the take off…great! However I was guided towards the nose seat and strapped in for the landing of my life. The winter sun was almost down as we flew over London along the Thames, what a sight. You felt almost as if you were suspended outside the aircraft, and boy does the ground come up fast on landing when you’re sat there.

I consider myself very fortunate to have done that, and I shall always be grateful to that crew for the experience. Well, I’ve rambled long enough, but I thought it might interest a few.:)

for me it would be a trip from the past on a 707 to redo my 1976 Man-Palma flight with British Airtours, and also one 2 i never managed to get on as a child on package tours, a Britannia, and a Comet.

Same as Above for me.

Concorde! 🙁

For me: Concorde never had the chance to fly on one 🙁
Hoping to fly on my first 747 this year

But do miss the BCAL 1-11’s 😀

Bristol Brittania and maybe – no make that definitely – either Boeing 314 or UK to India by by Short C Class.

So would I. It’s a great shame neither of these aircraft flew very far with anyone on them.

I’d have given my right arm for a ride on the Bristol Brabazon or the Spruce Goose

Lots of votes for Concorde, hardly surprising and I suppose I would like to have had a trip. But I am not sure that once inside it would be that different from other 20th century airliners, with less room. If I flew supersonic I nwoild far rather be in a modern fighter. However I could watch Concorde from the outside time and time again. One of the most exciting and beautiful aircraft ever built and flown.

TU-114
Anything else from the former Soviet Union
B707
DC-4
DC-6
DC-7
DC-8
L-1049
VC-10
Trident
Concorde
And, a hovercraft from Dover to Calais.
I’ve flown a DC-3 and a L-1011. Very good they were, too.

Is that a typo?

Nope….. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armstrong_Whitworth_Argosy

For me it has to be flying all the way in the glass nose of a Tupolev 134.

Well the one i miss most has got to be BAc Concorde. Saw her at LBA so many times and just never got the money together to get on one off the many pleasure trips she did.

Then its got to be the DC10. I Flew on one of the Airtours Int’l examples from Manchester to Palma-Majorca quite a few summers ago. The sheer power it had on take-off, I’ve never experianced anything else like it since,

Mesmorised is the perfect word.
“Some scientist” evaluated it as one of the few objects which appealed to both sides of the brain, the side which admires beauty and art… and the side which revels in logic/maths/techy stuff.