Has any one ever flown on old school aircraft such as the B727, tristar and dc-10.

Hmmm………involves a bit of digging in the flying log

L1011 – BA,DL,Court Line

BAC1-11 – BA,BCAL,Court Line,Dan Air

FH227 – Delta Airlines (Belgium)..bl**dy noisy and drinks vibrating across the flip down table into your lap !! – and still had the Ozark safety cards in the back of the seat despite Delta having had it for 5-6 years

DC10 – CP,Laker,BCAL,Swissair

Viscount – BA

B727 – LH,PA,DL,

DC8 – KLM (Srs 63 &55).SWR (srs 62),DL (srs 73)

Trident 1,2,3 – BA

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Dragon Rapide (Duxford pleasure flight)

Viscount (Cambrian, BEA)

Dart Herald (BIA. Incidentally, I later discovered that the aircraft used, G-BAJZ , had its maiden flight on the day I was born)

One-Eleven (B Midland)

B727 (National, Orient Thai)

B737-200 (BA, National)

DH Comet (last commercial flight with Dan Air)

VC-10 (last-but-one flight with BA)

DC-10 (National, B.Cal)

TriStar (Cathay Pacific)

Dakota (Eastern Airways)

The term “old School” makes me fel old…. 😀

I’ve flown on most of the older planes mentioned. As a passenger the flight experience in terms of noise, and views is the same as modern jets..just no fancy electonics (personal video screens, flight maps, etc), the long range flights had a film and 9 audio channels to listen to. I can remember when the overhead bins were open on “narrow body ” jets…rather like a bus. (The 747 was thge first plane with emclosed bins). Smoking was still allowed which wasn’t nice….but I seem to recall the bathroooms were a big larger than they are today.

I’ve flown on a charter 727 from Omaha, Nebraska to Cairo….via, Pittsburgh, Gander, Shannon, Sicily…5 countries in 25 hours.

Or something when I was a kid…flew in a DC-6 from San Fransisco to Tokyo via Honolulu and Wake Island. About two days at altitudes low enough to see the white caps on the ocean. No films…or tray tables, you ate your dinner off a tray placed on a pillow on your lap. Old school indeed!

I flew on an Ansett ANA DC6B in 1956 when they were the state of the art and the flagship of the fleet

DC 4 Sabena
L-382 Prototype
Caravelle Sabena, SAS, Air France, Air Inter
Vanguard BEA
B 727-100 Eastern Airlines
B 707-329 Sabena
Carvair BAF
Super VC 10 BOAC
CV 580 Allegheny
B 707-300B Sabena, Olympic Airways
DC 8 Alitalia, Air Spain
DC 9-30 Iberia, Swissair, Alitalia, SAS
Trident 1,2,3 BEA
BAC 1-11 British Caledonian
B 727-200 Olympic Airways
B 720 Olympic Airways, PIA
YS 11 Olympic Airways
Super Caravelle Air Inter
Viscount British Midland, Air Inter
B 737 Sabena, Lufthansa, Air Europe
Bandeirante Air Ecosse
F-27 KLM, Air UK, Gulf Air
FH-227 TAT, Delta
HS 748 Belgian Air Force
Transall German Air Force
B 747 KLM, PIA
F-28 Air France, TAT, Delta, British Airways
SD 330 British Midland
DC 9-15 SAS, British Midland
VFW 614 Cimber Air
Casa Aviocar
DHC-7
DC 10 Sabena, Swissair, AOM
and probably more

Two of my more fondly remembered flights were a 1 1/2 hour test flight on a Canadair CL44 & ORD to LGW as a jump seat passenger on a Tradewinds Boeing 707. Wuhan A/W IL14 & CAAC Trident were good too.

Canadair

dont tell me you did the L-1011 at Air-Transat 😮
there’s where i did my F/E…
about the engines… yes it is true, as mechanics we did suffer quite a lot with them, imagine working inside one of those while its still hot 🙁 on a nice hot summer day… 🙁 🙁 outside at the ramp 🙁 🙁 🙁 in a rush 😮
Fan balancing was a common thing,
receiving a “clean” L-1011 arrival was a surprise 😮 (always some snag)

Camaro.

Lets see……………….in my life I’v flown on…………National AL 727s, United 737-200, AA 707, United DC-8, AA MD-80, People Express 737, Southwest 737, Delta 727, MD-80, L-1011 757, AA 747?, US Air 737, 757, Value jet DC-9, World DC-10, unk airline Electra, unk airline Bac1-11, and many many more……inc C-130, UH-1, UH-60 CH-47, MD500, ………..

No one else flown Vanguard (BEA) or Caravelle (Sabena / Aviaco) apart from me?

Viscounts 700 & 800 series, 707s, !-11s, 707s and 727s too.

Yup, all of the above plus a few more;

BOAC VC10
Sudan Airways Comet 4D
BOAC 707
Sabena 707 (the plane was half SLF, half NSLF, and was our final flight back to Ireland)
Iberia 727
Nigeria Airways (wet lease form Aer Lingus) 737-200
Alitalia Caravelle
Nigeria Airways F27
DC9 (can’t remember the carrier at this remove, may have been Iberia)
Sudan Air Force DC3
BEA Viscount
BEA Vanguard (loved those unfolding steps!)
Aer Lingus Viscount
BA BAC 1-11
BEA Trident

I’m sure there’s more so I must dig out my BOAC Junior Jet Club logbook, the first one was filled up with our travelling to and from our residences on the Dark Continent and the only entry in the second one is that final flight home on the Sabena 707.

i used to be flight engineer on the mighty L-1011
a flying tank it was 😎

Camaro.

I flown on a DC-3, does that count.

http://www.airliners.net/discussions/trip_reports/read.main/45189 – My photos from the flight.

Flex

I been on Fifi Kate 😀 and a Peach Air Tristar to Faro.

James

Flown on a Dutch Dakota Association DC3, and on a De Havilland Rapide (DH-58?). Next wednesday a NWA DC9 will be added to the list, assuming the lot did not change the flight. With the luck I have had so far this holiday it will probably be changed though since everything seems to be going bad. Will probably post a rant thread somewhere in the next few weeks. 😉

The ‘moving map’ in the Trident was presumably the Decca Navigator system, or Knackered Devicator as we used to call it by virtue of its somewhat sketchy serviceabilty record.

I forgot I have also done the Air Memphis DC9 which is seriously old. It was loud, tatty on the inside, but a better experience than the 4 Tristars I flew on.

So i was wondering if any one has ever flown on these awesome aircraft??

C’Mon Luke mate.

What kind of question is that?

Not everyone on the forum is a young whippersnapper:p , there are a good few of us that have been around long enough to have flown on many “Older” aircraft.

One of the most impressive (if you can call it that) things about the old Trident was the “Moving Paper Map”, with a little airplane on it, in the middle of the instrument panel.
I had a cockpit visit (Anyone remember them?) on a flight LHR to Edinburgh whilst I was in the cadets.

When I told my Son they had a “Moving Map” on a paper roll, he thought I was taking the p1$$. :rolleyes:

No GPS back then… 😀

The only oldie I’ve been on was a Qantas 747-SP, lovely aircraft to fly in, if a tad cold sat near the window, in fact it was friggin freezing haha

Oh yeh forgot to mention ive been on both Air Scandics A300B4’s built in 1984.

Old School??
OK now I feel old, thanks 🙂
( and I am 43)
I flew the Tristar for a long time, as an FO, 5 years, and now the 747-200 as Cpt, but to me they are cutting edge stuff!
I am in no rush to get on something with TV screens.

By the way, the fellow that mentioned the Cali 1011`s and the engines, they had the 22b`s and they took a looong time to start, about 3 minutes each, not a great engine, lots of oil and vibration problems. But they had a great rumble to them, everyone knew you were starting a Tristar!
well the smoke gave you away too 😀
to be honest, I will still take the classic any day over all this “modern” stuff.
Great airplane!

Flew on a MyTravel DC10-10, which was very nice. And also on G-RJGR, one of the old 757s that MyTravel (Airtours) flew, which was #8 off the production line.

My “oldies” (although some do not seem that old to me!):

Dakota – RAE Farnborough
BAC 1-11 – ditto
VC10 – RAF
Britannia – RAF, Britannia Airways
Trident – BEA
C-54 – Air Ferry
727 – Dan Air
DH.84 – Chrisair
Andover – RAF
Viscount – British United
Stinson Detroiter – in Florida somewhere
DC-10 – Canadian International
KC-135 – USAF