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Now there's a question.

It is:

Caravelle

727

737 (various)

757

767

A310

A319

A320

A321

A330

Bac111

Trident

Tristar

DC-10

Fokker F27

Twin Otter (floats)

Dash 7

Dash 8

Trislander

Shorts 360

Bae 146

Chipmunk

DH Dove

Chinook

Puma

VC10

Sedburgh

Kirby Cadet

Grob Viking

Pa-38

Pa-32

Pa-32r

Pa-28

Pa-28r

Pa-23

Robin DR300

That's all folks!

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Hadn't seen this thread, but even though I spent my time fixing aircraft in the FAA I still liked to fly in them although I took the controls on some, being a pilot never really grabbed me.

PA-28-140 Cherokee

PA-28 Warrior

PA-38 Tomahawk

Cessna 172

Cessna 182

Cessna 310

Hunter T-8M

Harrier T-4N

Hercules several times

Heron

Dove

VC-10 - RAF

Tristar - RAF

C-9 Nightingale - USN

Comet 4C

Trident

Viscount

Vanguard

BAe 146

BAC 111

Islander

Boeing 737

Boeing 767

Boeing 777

Airbus A320

Airbus A321

Airbus A330

Airbus A340

Bombardier Express

Beech 1900

Twin Otter with Floats

Learjet 25

Learjet 35

Helicopters

Sea King Mk4

Sea King Mk5, too often

Chinook

Gazelle

ASK13 Gliders

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Flown; Puma HC.1, Stearman, Tiger Moth, T-6 Texan.

Passenger; (the above,...only flew them for a short time!) Hercules C.1 & C.3, C-130H, VC-10C.1, Tristar, Chinook HC.1, Wessex HAR.2, CH-53, Dakota, Barrage Balloon (never landed in one though), Gazelle AH.1, Lynx AH.7, Sea King HC.4, Huey, Sikorsky S-61, Dragon Rapide, Cessna 172, Robinson helo...plus the boring holiday airliners like the DC.9 and various Airbus and Boeing types including a Virgin 747. I`ve probably missed something out.

One of my mates had the ultimate flight, but under bad circumstances,....he was rushed home from W.Germany asap in a Harrier T.4 from Gutersloh to see his Mum in hospital,....from hearing she was ill to seeing her it took 3 hours,...and thankfully she recovered OK. He said that it was well worth her being ill,....callous little man!

Cheers

Tony O

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Air New England FH-227

Allegheny BAC-111

American DC-10, CVG-DFW and return, 1986.

American Eagle Embraer ERJ-140

American Eagle ATR-72 (miserable flight; no air conditioning)

American Fokker 100

Boeing 727 (too many to recall)

Bombardier/Canadair Regional Jet (can't remember airline; possibly United Commuter. GJT-DIA)

Braniff CV-440, SPS-DAL and return, 1968. First airline flight.

Braniff II 727-200, LGA-AUS and return, 1984.

Delta L-1011, ATL-SFO and return, 1977.

Piedmont NAMC YS-11, CVG-ATL and return, 1977.

Pilgrim Airlines DHC-6 Twin Otter, HVN-LGA, 1984. Most cramped.

Short 360, LAX-SNA, 1992. Can't remember airline; was a Southern California commuter.

TWA 707, BDL-STL and STL-OKC. Worst flight ever;  Xmas 1980. Left BDL late due to weather and missed connection at STL due to weather. Stood in line for 2 hours just to get another flight. Only one poor TWA agent at airport due to blizzard in area. Finally arrived OKC after midnight. Luggage didn’t arrive until 36 hours later. One of the last TWA 707 flights.

United DC-8-62, nonstop BDL-LAX and return, 1982. Most memorable flight; served Long Island roast duckling for lunch, and chandelles over the Grand Canyon while on descent to LAX!

Ryan Navion. First airplane flight, age 13, 1960. Local airspace around Clover Field, Sugarland, TX. Got to take the controls!

Aero Commander 100. Flight with college roommate, Georgetown, TX, 1968. Stalls and spins.

Cessna Skyhawk. Flight with college roommate, AUS-LBB and return, for football game, 1968. IFR in rain all the way there!

Piper Seneca. Business trip, OJC-CYS-LAS-OJC, 1989. Got to take controls on return night flight.

Cessna T-50 “Bamboo Bomber, antique airplane fly-in, DTN-3F3 and return, 2015. Loudest airplane flight!

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Hah, really interesting theme, I have to support so.. trying to remember!

1st I can’t tell exactly. Some MD .. I was 16 yrs old youngster

TU-134

TU-154B and 154M (Last one 154M in Aeroflot!)

737-200 (about 2005-2007 years)

A-320, A321 (a lot of times - Aeroflot, S7, NordWind and others)

737-400 (Peggasus-Asia)

737-800 (also clear many different companies, RoyalAirMaroc as the most unusual)))

A320 and A321 NEO (both Pegasus Turkey)

Sukhoi SSJ-100 (Azimuth)

And only once wide-body, 777 RoyalFlight (Usual tourist charter to Bodrum)

I think that’s all for today, but I dont gonna stop 😀

 

ЗЫ I must update: plus I've forgotten -  B757 also RoyalFlight (charter flight back from Antalya) 

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Oh, that's my list, not sure that I forgot some:

 

Ju-52

Il-18

Yak-40

An-24

Tu-134

Tu-154

Il-62

Il-86

A 300

A 320

A 321

A 330

A 340

B 737 - 2

B 737 - 7

B 747 - 8

ATR-42

DHC-6

BN Trislander

Dash 8

BAe 164

EMB 160

EMB 185

 

modelldoc

 

UPS, forgot Saab 340, B 767

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Great question. Not sure how I missed this first time around. My list is:

 

A300 (Emirates)

A310 (Cyprus Airways)

A319/20/21 (BA, BMI, Monarch, Easyjet, Jetstar, America West)

A330 (Qantas, Singapore, BMI, Sri Lankan)

A340 (Virgin)

A350 (Singapore)

A380 (Qantas, Emirates, Singapore)

ATR 42 (Aer Arann)

ATR 72 (FlyBe)

BAC 1-11 (BA, BCal, Manx)

ATP (Manx)

146/RJ (Manx, BA)

707 (TAP)

717 (Qantas)

737-200 (BA, Britannia, Orion, British Airtours)

737-300 (America West)
737-400 (Qantas)

737-800 (Virgin Australia, Qantas)

747-400 (Qantas, Virgin, Singapore)

757 (BA, Delta, United)

767 (American, Qantas)

777 (Emirates, Singapore)

Chipmunk (RAF)

Dash Eight (Qantas, Air Southwest, America West, FlyBe, BA)

Embraer 145 (BA)

Fokker F-27 (Air UK, Manx)

Fokker F-28 (Air France)

Fokker 70 (BMI)

Herald (Air UK, Janus Airways)

Jetstream (Cranfield University, Eastern Airways)

Trident (BA)

Hercules (RAF)

Tristar (BA)
MD80 (American, SAS)

Shorts 330, 360 (Manx)

S-61N (Skylink)
Viscount (Manx, BA)

and I've flown Grob 115, PA-28, PA-38, Grob Viking and BA's 747-400 simulator

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RN Sea King (at a recruitment-drive open-day in Portsmouth, when I was 16). 

 

Hughes 500 in Australia, near Surfers Paradise. 

 

DC-3 in Auckland, New Zealand.

 

Dragon Rapide at Duxford.

 

Not the same as an actual flight, obviously, but maybe worth mentioning...

 

At an open-cockpit evening at the Cosford Museum a few years ago, I sat in their FW-190 and stood with the upper half of my body in their Ju-88 (they didn't allow you to climb around inside, but I appreciated being able to have a good look). 

 

On another evening at Cosford, I sat in the F-111, Mig-15, Pucara, Harrier, Ohka Kamikaze "manned-bomb" ( a very rare treat) and a number of other airframes. 

 

At open-cockpit events at Duxford, I've been inside the B-52, B-17, Lancaster, Huey, "US Marines" F-4 (a British-model Phantom, repainted as a 'Corps one, IIRC), Sunderland and a few others.  

 

Cheers. 

 

Chris. 

 

  

 

 

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On 7/31/2013 at 10:18 PM, Old Viper Tester said:

Most of these were flown as part of the Test Pilot School Curriculum (I was a test engineer, not a pilot). The RAF aircraft were when I did an exchange tour at the MoD and my boss, seeing I wan't too happy chained to a desk, arranged for some "familiarization" flights. Now I've been flying a desk for twenty years.

Sven

Old Viper Tester

Wow! That is one hell of a list! Have you ever thought of writing a book about your career?

 

Cheers. 

 

Chris. 

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First Flight DH Rapide at Duxford

Second and thirds Flight, a few panels of sheet metal strapped to a lawnmower engine (BN Islander) 

ATR42

BA Jetstream

Ryanair 737

Various Easyjet Airbus

757 Icelandair back from the Island during The Volcano crises (my last flight) 

 

Not traveled that much and one day would like to go on something bigger (was planning a medium haul trip when covid hit) but I doubt the destinations I might end up are going to be served by the bigger types given even the small ones can go to the moon and back on half a tank now

 

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For me aside from the usual mix of contemporary Boeing and Airbus types, the most interesting was the 1980-built Airbus A300 on an Iran Air service from Schipol to Tehran in 2016.

 

Definitely a very retro experience from booking the tickets via a dodgy German travel agency, to manual checkin at an unbranded desk, the welcome aboard non-alcoholic beer, 2-4-2 seating and genuine leg room!

 

Funny think is that when I booked the flight, lots of people said I was crazy to risk Iran Air and I should have just gone via Turkish Airlines. However on the day of the trip was the "coup" in Istanbul that closed the airport and cancelled all flights. Therefore we made it through fine but my fellow traveller ended up rerouting via Aeroflot on a hideously expensive ticket!

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Some of my more interesting flights were:

Ju52

Helio Courier

VC-10 - dutch roll crew training

Super Constallation

Short Sandringham

DH84

DH80

Grunnau Baby - Brasilian version

Tripacer

DC-7CF

Lodestar

 

And lots of later types.....

 

 

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Hs Trident

BAe 146

Boeing.....

727

737

747

Airbus A320

Cessna.....

150

172

Citation 

Dhc Twin Otter

And a twin engine propeller job that i cant recall the name of out of Panshanger.(possibly a comanchie?)

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Flown:

Some kind of glider, can't recall the type

Hang gliders

Quicksilver MX ultralight (still questioning that choice 40 years later)

Lots of different single engine Cessna, Piper, and Beechcraft types

NAVION

Baron 55 and 58

Cessna 310, 402, 441

Beech 18

DC-3

Beech Starship

All of the King Air versions from the C90 to the 300, except the F90

Mitsubishi Diamond

Beechjet

Dash-8

CRJ

737

 

Ridden in:

B-17

A320

Fokker 28 & 100

707, 717, 727, 737, 747, 757 (best jump seat ride ever!), and 777

DC-8, DC-9, MD-80

Shorts 360

Metroliner III

Jetstream

ERJ-145 & 170

 

Ben

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Viscount 700 (fiirst flight),

Cesena spam-can,

Chipmunk (first I've flown),

B737-200 (grim),

B737-800,

B767,

B757,

A320,

A330,

Piper Tonahawk (yawn),

Tiger Moth,

Dragon Rapide,

Super VC-10 (Goddess of the skies, full stop!)

SRN4, 

A W Argosy,

H P Hastings,

Kirby Cadet TX. 3.

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Far too many to list  50 types of glider, oldest Gipsy Moth. Lucky flew in RAF VC-10,Dan-Air Comet 4  and 8 trips in Varsities.

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Cessna something (1st flight) 

737(-800?)

various A320

747-400

Bell 206

An-2 (1x passenger, 1x Cockpit seat) 

Do27

Stearman

(none were controlled by me)  

 

Maybe some oldies will follow... unfortunately no Hurricane, as much as I'd want to. 💷

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Fascinating resurrection of this thread. I contributed back in the day. I still remain in awe of the so many fabulous and historic aircraft those of us who contribute to this forum  have flown or flown in. I'm  seriously envious. But yet I  remain the  only  person  who's flown in an Alouette III with an assault rifle and jumped out without landing. 👍Plus the GA8 

 

We are, it seems not just modellers but pilots, enthusiasts, aviation professionals and amateurs. Hardly a surprise.

 

I  can only add to  my list, I flew in an Airbus A350, really nice. I actually thought it was a Boeing 787 thanks to my lack of currency in  those things. 

 

I flew a Vans RV6 belonging to friend of mine in Zimbabwe. What a rocket ship that is. You only have to apply pressure to the  stick to manoeuvre it . It's kind of like using the 'force'. It's a little Spitfire.

 

At the other end I  flew a Land Africa not in Africa but it's  an Ultralight. Really nice to  fly and I  simply  cannot see how you could kill yourself in the thing without diving straight into the ground. 

 

Anyone  could fly the the thing it's like driving a car. OK with a bit of  flight  training.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Updating my list, I can add the A380, A350 and B787-900for my trip to Nz and Oza, 2019

 Then much more recently some gliding revival for me in a ASK-21 and a DG-505 as P2. Might get some more gliding in again during the summer.

 

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Some very interesting entries in people's lists here! 

 

Flown:

Chipmunk 

Slingsby Venture

C150

C172

PA-28 Cherokee 140

SA Bulldog

Grob 109

CFM Shadow

Slingsby Firefly

Short Tucano

Gazelle HT2/3

Bell 412

Sea King 3 (also briefly 3a & 5)

AW139 (short demo flight)

EC725 Caracal (demo flight)

MD902 Explorer 

AS355F Twin Squirrel

Sikorsky S-92

 

Flown in:

Sea King 4

Puma

Chinook

Wessex various

Nimrod

Hunter T8b (briefly on the controls)

Hawk T1

B727

B737 various

B747 various

B757

B767

DC-9 (jump seat, LBA - LHR rtn)

DC-10

Tristar

VC-10

A310

A319/320

A330

A340

Embraer 175/190

Embraer 135/145

Canadair CRJ

Saab 2000

Saab 340

Jetstream J41

DHC Dash-8

Bombardier Q400

ATR 42/72

Sikorsky S-61N (both pax & demo P2)

 

There might have been others, but I've lost track!

Jon

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OK, trying to remember all of them:

 

Antonov An-26

Piper Comanche

Mi-8MTV-1

Mi-8S

 

And then the usual suspects:

MD-80

B737-500

B737-200

A320

A319

A340-600

A380

B747-8

Dash 8-Q400

Cessna 402

 

And newly added

777-300

767-300

 

Well short of some lists here, of which I'm very jealous! :D

 

 

 

 

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HS748

bristol freighter 

heron

dove

ambassador

1-11

dragon rapide

trident

islander

trilander

Andover 

Hastings

Shackleton

Puma

Wessex

chinook

gazelle

scout

Beaver

beagle

c-130k

c-130j

galaxy

brittannia

herald 

747

720

707

727

737

757

767

777

a300 I think french Air Force 

cougar Swiss 

allouette

tristar

antonov 124

canadair cl44

Dc8

dc3

dc10

nimrod

chipmunk

merlin

ec135 police

c-17

vc-10

belfast

vangaurd

hovercraft from Pompey 

Argosy

whilwind

tu-154 

dash 7

dash 8

banderante

convair440

c141 long one

transal

saab340

skyvan

A319

A320

A340

i think that’s all, but not sure.

sammy

 

 

 

 

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