What have you actually flown in?

Ford Trimotor

Waco biplane,  don't know the model of some of these

1910 Wright Flyer replica

AH1F Hueycobra

C7 Caribou

KC130F Hercules

C141 Starlifter

Boeing

707, 727, 737, 747, 757, 767

Douglas

DC7, DC8, DC10, MD90 Embraer Hughes 500 Ecuriel Airbus A320 ATR42

CH-46 Sea Knight

CH-53 Sea Stallion

MH-53 Pave Low

MH-60 Pave Hawk

CH-47 Chinook

MH-47

SH-60F Sea Hawk

HH-60 Jay Hawk

OH-6 Cayuse

OH-58 Kiowa

C-130

MC-130 (Aircrew)

EC--130 (Aircrew)

KC-130

C-9

C-40

C-17

C-5

C-141

KC-135

RC-135W (Aircrew)

RC-135R (Aircrew)

EP-3 (Aircrew)

P-3

Lynx HMA.8

C-2

E-2

E-3

KC-10

S-3

ES-3 (Aircrew)

Tri Star

C-119 (Jumped out of)

727

737

747

757

767

UH-1

A320

A319

A340

F/A-18E

Tornado GR1

MiG 29KUB

The US Navy loved to send me everywhere.

Geez, Souda!! That's an impressive list. How much time in the air do you have? I'm especially impressed with the last three in the list.

I spent a lot of time in the air and away from base. The GR1 and the Hornet were so I could keep up my ejection seat qualification, and the MiG was a lucky stroke when my unit went TAD to Russia for a month.

Added a hot air balloon ride on the 4th.

Lets see if I can remember them all.

piloted

Cessna 150, 152, 172

Grumman Cheeta

T-37. flew like a 150. Great acro airplane

T-38 A kick a$$ airplane. But 6-7 Gs hurts

C-23 Militarized Shorts 330

C-5 A GREAT aircraft. Did low level, airdrop, tactical (I know, crazy), AR, along with plenty of trash hauling.

Then into the civilian world

727s sideways

MD-80s Another great aircraft

737s, about 39 versions of them.

Thats where I am now. The left seat of a 737.

Oh. Does sitting in the cockpit of a Russian Mi-8 count while it was cargo on my C-5 count? We were crossing the Atlantic at the time. Same with Marine 1.

As a passenger.

All the Boeing's in passenger service in the 25 years

All the Douglas's the same

All the Airbus's except the 330, 340, 380

Been in the cockpit of most of them on the jumpseat

E-190

CRJ's

-8's

Uh-1. The only helicopter

Sat/been in

B-17 Shoo shoo baby while at Dover AFB

F-106

B-1, you wear it

CH-53

Hind

B-29

B-24

F-20

F-5

MiG 21

MiG 23

MiG 25

Not aircraft but still cool

ZSU-25

M1-A1 Abrams VERY VERY cool

I probably missed a few but that's got to be most of them

In all that time I've never flown a bad aircraft. Some have been better than others

but they have all had their good points.

Now that's a cool list, mach71! I take it you fly for a living?

well,compared to y'all,not too many......in order (if i remember correctly)

commonwealth sopwith pup

beechcraft bonanza

cessna(tiny one)

stearman 2 seater

twin otter

Huey

C-130

...and way back in the 70s I got to "fly" a trailered virtual B-52 cockpit....too cool,and also what started my flightsim issues (now retired from flightsims)

As a commercial pilot I had the opportunity to fly many aircraft, most of them outside of the career. On the job, 727, 707, (yup, that makes me an old guy,) 757, DC-10, 747 and 747-400. A real privilege, all of them. Off the job a whole bunch of airplanes, as a second career professional airport bum, just never could get enough.

Among the very favorites: Waco UPF-7, Piaggio Royal Gull twin engine pusher prop amphib, Cessna 310-R, Cessna 185 on amphib floats, Zlin Blanik sailplane. As a very young kid, my Dad's friend gave me a ride in his Ercoupe. I was about 8, thought it was as exotic as I now consider the Space Shuttle to be.

Now at 74 years I fly an LOD, (Large Oak Desk,) happy to drive a Ford pickup with a black lab named Ellie in the right seat, best darn First Officer I ever had.

Patrick    

Sorry for the double post, blasted laptop!!!!

Since I was a little kid I always loved aircraft and that carried over to my time in the Corps.

On the military side of the house....

KC-130 F/R having been assigned to VMGR's 152, 252 and 352 as a 6086

Now during my off duty time and having a backseat license, over the years I was able to catch hops among various fixed and rotor units willing to give rides. One time I came Sooooo close to an F-4 hop but the decision was for squadron personnel only.

TC-4C NAVY @ NAS Oceana The working A-6 cockpit in the back was an amazing sight!

T-28 @ MCAS K-Bay w/stick time. After T/O the Col let me fly it from Oahu to the Big Island.

TA-4J w/ VMAT-203 @ MCAS Cherry Pt. w/stick time. 1st hop was an ACM, it was an E-ticket ride

TA-4J w/ VC-12 @ NAS Oceana w/stick time. I got in 1-2 hops per day the last 2 week I was there.

OV-10A caught a hop from Bogue Field into Cherry Pt.

P-3A @ NAS Memphis

CH-46D @ K-Bay

CH-53D @ K-Bay

UH-1 @ K-Bay

KC-135 SAC  got a hop from AFB Hickham to Offutt and back.

C-141's

KC-30 E/R and the CASA CN 235 with the RSAF as a contractor.

For the civilian birds I had to pay for a ride....

Cessna 150's w/stick time, B-707, 727, 737, 747, 757.767.  DC-8, 9, 10, L-1011, Corvair  340, 880, 890. YS-11 most of the Airbuses and ATR-72's.

E-4B (747-200) and currently UH-1N (Bell 212)

Also when I was a kid I got to fly on a B-25.

Archangel Shooter

Since I was a little kid I always loved aircraft and that carried over to my time in the Corps.

On the military side of the house....

KC-130 F/R having been assigned to VMGR's 152, 252 and 352 as a 6086

Now during my off duty time and having a backseat license, over the years I was able to catch hops among various fixed and rotor units willing to give rides. One time I came Sooooo close to an F-4 hop but the decision was for squadron personnel only.

TC-4C NAVY @ NAS Oceana The working A-6 cockpit in the back was an amazing sight!

T-28 @ MCAS K-Bay w/stick time. After T/O the Col let me fly it from Oahu to the Big Island.

TA-4J w/ VMAT-203 @ MCAS Cherry Pt. w/stick time. 1st hop was an ACM, it was an E-ticket ride

TA-4J w/ VC-12 @ NAS Oceana w/stick time. I got in 1-2 hops per day the last 2 week I was there.

OV-10A caught a hop from Bogue Field into Cherry Pt.

P-3A @ NAS Memphis

CH-46D @ K-Bay

CH-53D @ K-Bay

UH-1 @ K-Bay

KC-135 SAC  got a hop from AFB Hickham to Offutt and back.

C-141's

KC-30 E/R and the CASA CN 235 with the RSAF as a contractor.

For the civilian birds I had to pay for a ride....

Cessna 150's w/stick time, B-707, 727, 737, 747, 757.767.  DC-8, 9, 10, L-1011, Corvair  340, 880, 890. YS-11 most of the Airbuses and ATR-72's.

Cool rides, Shooter! What was your MOS in the Corps? I see you were stationed at Cherry Point if you were assigned to VMGR-252. When were you there? I was stationed there from 1984 to 1995, with H&MS-32/MALS-32, then MALS-14.

Huey54

E-4B (747-200) and currently UH-1N (Bell 212)

Also when I was a kid I got to fly on a B-25.

Cool, Huey54! If you flew E-4Bs, then you must be USAF, correct?

Dawg "Cool rides, Shooter! What was your MOS in the Corps? I see you were stationed at Cherry Point if you were assigned to VMGR-252. When were you there? I was stationed there from 1984 to 1995, with H&MS-32/MALS-32, then MALS-14."

Hi Dawg! As a SSgt I lat moved into the AME field (6086) and got assigned to 252 in 1979. Then in 1984 I went to 352 and 2 years later did a PCS move to 152 for 3 three years. Came back and became a C-130 environmental instructor at the Navy/Marine school house at El Toro which was fun. 

A year later I made MSgt and some wiseass monitor at CMC thought instead of keeping me in the C-130 community that I would like fast movers and gave me a choice of F-18 outfits to choose from to be a maintenance chief. We settled on VMA-(AW)- 242 as they were going to go into a transitional period to the F-18D shortly and figured I would be in the same learning curve as everyone else. That was a month before the first Gulf War.

Well when the balloon went up, 242 took off with their A-6's like the Bats they were to Saudi. I figured I would join them the following month over there.  But the Squadron got as far as Cherry Point and was told to hand over their birds to the other Intruder squadrons and return to El Toro for the transition. There were a lot of unhappy faces including mine, that was upset about missing the party. I would watch CNN and see C-130 buddies of mine being interviewed as they were conducting refueling hops over Iraq . It was a couple of months before we received our first factory fresh Lawn Dart. After a few more months and a few more new birds on our flightline, we stated doing exercises to places I have never been to in a C-130, like CAX at 29 Palms, Red Flag at Nellis but getting stuck way out in the boondocks at Indian Springs. Then there was TAIL HOOK! But that is another story.

 All in all I had a great time and in hindsight, I should have asked my CO for a F-18 hop before I retired but I was just too busy with the squadron and baby sitting the SgtMaj.

Scott

Awww, Man! Rotten luck! I actually got to go over there on the USS Saipan with a Harrier detachment from MALS-32. Spent 6 months floating around in the Gulf. Saw quite a few nice ports, like Bahrain, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Cairo, Hurgada, Jaifa, and Palma De Mallorca of the east coast of Spain. Never did get to go into Kuwait with any of the shore parties, though.

By the way, what's "AME"? I was DECM (Deceptive Electronic Countermeasures (6482).

AME...Aircraft Maintenance Environmental. AKA seat mechs.  I got over to Riyadh Aug 92 working for Lockheed Martin Middle East. Folks there was pointing out to me where all the Scuds have hit in the city.  Would go to Bahrain on weekends which was a nice break from the Saudis, of course in Bahrain you could find them at the bars.

Military aircraft flown in- C-130, C-17, C-5, CH-47, UH-60, UH-72 (US), C-130 (Italian AF), C-160 (Luftwaffe), MI-8 (Serbian AF) and an introductory flight lesson in a T-6 Texan. not too bad for an old tank commander.

Correct sir.

Devil Dawg

Huey54

E-4B (747-200) and currently UH-1N (Bell 212)

Also when I was a kid I got to fly on a B-25.

Cool, Huey54! If you flew E-4Bs, then you must be USAF, correct?

Yes sir.

Not counting airlines, pax on UH-1, C-130, KC-135A, C-9,

Crew on T-37B, T-43A, B-52G, B-52H

As an Army grunt, I got no stick time in anything.  I did get to ride in some decent aircraft though.

CH-53E as a ROTC cadet

C-130s and C-141- rode in some, jumped out of a few too.

UH-1H, CH-47, and UH-60s in Korea, Ft. Campbell, Panama, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq

C130s, C17, and small 'Sherpa' transports - in country movement throughout Kuwait and Iraq

Such fun memories!!!

TAD

Cool stuff, TAD. Were the Sherpas C-27s?

Sherpa's are the C-23

Now you jogged a memory. I flew in an Olympic Airways Skyvan back in 1988, from Mikonos to Athens.

Double D,

Not sure of the nomenclature, but we had a few Sherpas making short personnel and log hops between remote outposts like Tal Afar and some of the more civilized towns like Taji..........The Sherpa was uglier than home made soap, but it could get off the ground pretty darn quick!

Having worked in aviation as an A&P/AI for something like 45 years, I've managed to to get time in a few different A/C. (Ether as a pilot or as a passenger).

Piper J3/L4, Pa12, Pa18, Pawnee, Tri-Pacer/Colt, Apache, Comanche, Cherokee

Cessna 100 series (except 162), C206, C208, C210, C421, L19, Agwagon/Agtruck

Aero Commander Twins, Stinson L5, Ercoupe, Aeronca 7AC/11AC

B-17, B-23, B-24, A-26, Be 18/AT11, C-47, C-46, C-54, DC-7

PV-2, PB4Y-2, TBM, P-51

Didn't list any of the helicopters I've ridden in because I really don't care for them because they don't really fly, they beat the air into submission, plus they rattle, shake, drop parts on you and then fall on you.  And if you paint them Dull Green, they rattle, shake, drop parts on you, fall on you and people will shoot at you!

Impressiver list! P-51 ehh? Do tell.

Funny about helicopters, I feel the same way. Never had to ride in one as part of the job like most of you all.

Dad used to say they don't really fly, they just fake it.

Forgot to add - I flew in a DeHavilland Otter on floats that belongs to Kenmore Air in Seattle, WA (no stick time).  Took a little sight-seeing tour around Seattle. Really nice. There were us 5 passengers and the pilot. He took us on a 1.5G 360-degree bank around the Space Needle so we could get some really good pictures of it. What was really impressive was how smooth the take-off & landing was in the water. Silky smooth. I would've thought it would be rougher.

tellis

M MI-8 (Serbian AF)

Can I be curious and ask under which circumstances did you found yourself in the Mi-8?