Who was your first flight with?

Thanks for your welcome Steve. I am 51 next birthday so I am not that old but when I read about peoples first flights being in the eighties and nineties on planes like the 757 it makes me feel ancient. Neither did it help when I showed my eldest daughter a picture of a Stratocruiser and she said “Did those things actually manage to fly?”.

“Welcome Old Git” nice to have someone on the forum who’s nearly as old as me.
I wonder who is the oldest and youngest on this forum?

My first was a Pan Am 747 in 1979.I was 6 years old…
All I remember was meeting the crew and being taken to the cockpit when we landed in the states…
It was all downhill from there….lol
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My first flight was in 1973, from Luton to Rimini on Courtline Lockheed Tristar, G-BAAA. Good flight , nice aircraft

Dave

Thanks for your greetings Hand87_5, I am an “immigrant” having been here for 5 years. There is some very interesting stuff comes in to Jeddah airport particularly during Haj but photography is not advised but I am making some enquiries to see if I can get permission for some pictures during the next Haj. I have to say I am very pleased to have found this forum – its excellent to be able to see posts from like minded people.

Hey , welcome to a new fella.
As far as I remember , our first mate from Saudia. Our you a local or an immigrant ?

My first flight was on a BOAC Stratocruiser from Heathrow to Kano Nigeria back in the Fifties. I have the exact date and reg. in my BOAC junior jet club log book but it is at home in my attic and I am in Saudi. The Stratocruiser had a bar underneath the main deck and one of my earliest memories was going to look for my dad in the bar and falling down the steps. From what I can remember the flights stopped at Barcelona or Tripoli.

The Carvair was actually a conversion from a DC-4, I believe. And yes, the Bristol did have 2 front doors that swung open. Before I actually read an article on the Carvair, I frequently confused the 2 of them.

That pic has bought back child memories,
It reminds me of a airfix model my brother who had which looks like a Bristol 170 and it was painted in desert colours. If my memory is correct do the two front doors open outwards?
I am talking over 20 years ago since ive seen it.

Originally posted by mongu
Are you talking about those strange propeller 747 lookalikes?

You mean the Carvair?

(full designation: Aviation Traders ATL-98 Carvair)

Nah, the Bristol 170 is this…

My first flight was when I was 18 months old coming back from Singapore in a RAF VC10. My Dad was RAF and I was born there.
My first memory of flying was when I was 5 back in ’78 and it was a Dan Air Hawker Siddley HS-748 from Southampton to Jersey, I am trying to find the pic I took. I have had to look up the aircraft in my books and im sure it was a HS-748

Are you talking about those strange propeller 747 lookalikes?

i’ve never seen a Bristol 170 in person, but have seen plenty of pics – a wierd looking a/c!

Not a chance with the Citreon!!

My first flight as a very young child was in 1963 on a British United Bristol 170 Freighter. It was one of those cross channel car carrying aircraft as we took our Citroen DS19 car with us, does anyone remember either machine?? The flight was from SEN to OST.

Can’t remember my first flight… I was very young and didn’t care about aircraft back then… one thing I do remember is that I went up some stairs at the back of the aircraft… and I thought it was great at how I managed to meet my dad in the middle of the plane when he went in through the side door!

The first flight I can remember was on an Air UK Leisure 737… maybe a 400 I think! From MAN to Rhodes… via Gatwick.

First flight would have been the first leg of LAX-ATH via JFK on TWA back in 1976. I was 2 years old and do not recall the aircraft. More than likely, it was a 747-100 which is what is was when we flew on the same route with the same airline 7 years later, but it also could have been a 707 or a L1011 as those were also used on that route in the mid-70’s. There was actually bad weather in JFK and we were diverted to EWR, from what my mother tells me, and I was promptly lost in the airport for a short time. A very worried mother of mine found me a short time later glued to a window watching aircraft movements. Ironic? I think not….

This was the first aircraft i flew with. It was in 1970 from Curaçao (Netherlands Antilles) to Amsterdam with KLM.

With British Airtours, the charter division of British Airways, from Gatwick to Tenerife in 1974. I was four years old and don’t remember much about it. From the process of elimination I would guess that we went on a Boeing 707.

my first flight was BA GLA-LHR at Easter 85, unsure of the exact a/c for this one, but probably a 757, continuing on to CDG on a BA L1011, and returning direct to GLA from CDG a week later on a BA BAC 1-11.

It would have been in the early 70s and it was on a Dan-Air Comet 4 from Gatwick to Palma.