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What aircraft (other than airliners) have you flown or flown on?

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Posted by bigbluejavelin on Thursday, January 6, 2022 5:40 PM

 Oh, if it counts, a hot air balloon too, but that is a whole different thing than a plane, so quiet and peaceful.

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Posted by bigbluejavelin on Thursday, January 6, 2022 5:37 PM

 Cessna 152, 170, 172, 172 straight tail, and Citation

 Ford 1929 Trimotor (2 different ones)

 Can,t remember what that perfectly good airplane was that I jumped out of, but it was fun!

 My favorite will always be the Trimotor, my first and most recent rides.

 

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  • From: West of the rock and east of the hard place!
Posted by murph on Sunday, January 2, 2022 3:11 PM

Cessna 150

Cessna 172

DeHavilland Beaver

RCAF Huey

Avro Lancaster

Sat in the driver's seat of a Spitfire, Mustang, Hurricane, P-40, Lancaster, B-24 Liberator, Dakota, Sabre, CF-101 Voodoo, CF-104 Starfighter and CF-18 Hornet

Retired and living the dream!

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  • From: Northeast WA State
Posted by armornut on Friday, December 31, 2021 8:59 AM

   Teenage, your a lucky person....I would almost give up a body part to fly in a triple 7. Watched them take off and land in Everett Wa. back when they were being certified, BEAUTIFUL plane.

we're modelers it's what we do

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Posted by Armor_Aficionado on Friday, December 31, 2021 8:28 AM

Flown and flown on:  Cessna 150, Cessna 172, T-6 Texan

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  • From: Somewhere near Chicago
Posted by Teenage Modeler on Thursday, December 30, 2021 8:52 PM

None. Back in my hometown, flying in an Airbus was really expensive, let alone flying in something other than an airliner. It was rare to find someone with a plane. 


So I have not rode anything other than an Airbus a321, A330, and Boeing 777-300ER Sadly :(

Made you Look

 

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Posted by Liegghio on Sunday, November 7, 2021 7:26 PM

I can tell you the oddest airplane I ever flew on, a B-17 that was being used as a pesticide bomber. Wish I'd taken photos, it would make for a great kit conversion.

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  • From: Longmont, CO
Posted by ajmadison on Friday, November 5, 2021 2:21 AM

Amazing thread. Won't even bore you folks with my ages.

I have riden in, and because my dad was often PIC for the general aviation examples, assisted in piloting:

Cessna:

150, 172, 177, 182 (except for the Cardinal/177) were club aircraft which my dad was a member for ~15 years (East Hill Flying Club, based in Ithaca, NY)

Piper:

Piper Cub (as I recall, due to CG limits, I sat in the front seat), Piper Cheroke 140

Mooney:

Mooney Chaparrel, Mooney 201 (my dad co-owned both of these types)

Grumman:

Grumman Tiger (another EHFC flying club airplane)

"Some fabric covered sailplane":

On the other side of lake Cayuga from the Ithaca, NY airport & EHFC (see above) was a sailplane club. At a fly-in breakfast, which my dad drove us to, a raffle based on my breakfast ticket won me a free ride in a sailplane. The sailplane pilot was also a member of the EHFC, the weather was grey but with a high ceiling, and no thermals. We went up, detached, circled right back down to the airfield.

Commercial Aircraft: 

Boeing 720 (United), 727, 737 (Southwest equipment, virtually all 737 models), 757 (Delta)

Airbus:

Airbus 320 (to and from the island of Antigua)

Saab:

Saab 340 (pathetic regional carrier Silver Airways, has ontime performance around 5% - I exaggerate. Surprised they didn't manage to kill all onboard, both flights to & from Key West were delayed by maintenance issues)

McD:

DC-9 (Allegheny/US Air)

Lockheed:

Lockheed Electra, Wash, DC to Syracuse regional flight, late 60s. 

L-1011 (Seasonal carrier that switched routes chasing revenue per tourist)

BAC:

BAC One-Eleven (Allegheny Airlines) two leg trip from Ithaca, NY to Denver, CO.

There was a Piedmont turboprop, one aisle two seats arrangment.

My Dad could one-up me. He rode a Delta Convair 880. 

Probably missed one or two airplanes in their somewhere

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Posted by goldhammer88 on Sunday, August 15, 2021 9:41 AM

Hanging in there.  But my two ladies on just under seven years and both supposed to outlast me

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Posted by armornut on Saturday, August 14, 2021 9:14 PM

   Hang in there Gh88, things will work out. My condolances for your losses, it is never easy to take hits like that back to back. However you have friends, someday maybe Steve, you and I can meet. I'll see Steve in Vegas, heck he has me almost convinced to bring my wife to Omaha next year.

we're modelers it's what we do

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Posted by goldhammer88 on Wednesday, August 11, 2021 5:43 PM

May be expecting it, but getting it paid on my SS and a small amount from a pension rollover.  All less than 1700.  Ain't happening.

May have to look to a go fund me pity party.  Been a lousy 3 weeks.  Lost a club member and friend of 45 years, my lady passed a week later and I go down with existing heart a week and a half after that.

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Posted by armornut on Wednesday, August 11, 2021 3:48 PM

    I was strictly maintenance however yes a flight on their service is not cheap. Well the good thing is your expecting it. They do have a membership program for a fee/ year but I do not know what it saves you.

we're modelers it's what we do

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Posted by goldhammer88 on Wednesday, August 11, 2021 3:13 PM

Yeah, MC, thought it might be one of those too, but he couldn't recall the model.  Not really a flight I wanted to take without any coverage for one.  Can't wait till I get the bill., They might have to take me back over there when I do see if it.

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Posted by armornut on Wednesday, August 11, 2021 2:34 PM

   Goldhammer88, I believe it was a PC-12 Pilatus. LifeFlight aquired them fro Metro Aviation after the takeover of the Northwest Region 4/5yrs ago. Lovely aircraft that has really long legs and wants to be in the sky. 

we're modelers it's what we do

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Posted by goldhammer88 on Wednesday, August 11, 2021 1:18 PM

Wasn't in condition to know what it was...just long nose single engine turboprop,  3 blade prop, low wing with vertical winglets, T tail.  Oval cabin windows.  Used as a lifeflight bird.  

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  • From: Vancouver, the "wet coast"
Posted by castelnuovo on Wednesday, August 11, 2021 12:45 PM

Hanggliders and paragliders. Also went up in a Twin Otter but did not come down in it, LOL

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  • From: Orlando, Florida
Posted by ikar01 on Monday, August 2, 2021 9:19 PM

727

DC-9

737

L-1011

stretch 8

some cramped commuter prop job

C-141A

C-130E

C-47

H-43 (2 versions)

UH-1

I hate flying

 

 

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Posted by Cafguy on Sunday, June 27, 2021 5:28 PM

 I have had the privalidge of riding on many a ww2 aircraft since I am A volonteer for the commemerative airforce.  Hence the name CAFGUY. 

Life tip:  Skip marrage: find the women you hate the most and buy her a house and car.

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  • From: Denver
Posted by tankboy51 on Friday, June 25, 2021 8:46 PM

None.

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  • From: Willamette Valley, Oregon
Posted by goldhammer on Thursday, June 24, 2021 10:26 PM

You're doing okay for a young guy.  Give it some time.  You might be able to add to that as you get older.  One of the old warbird rides would probably hook you for life.

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    January 2021
  • From: Somewhere near Chicago
Posted by Teenage Modeler on Thursday, June 24, 2021 4:38 PM

Only plane I rode on is:

A320 Family

Boeing 777

Airbus A330

Made you Look

 

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Posted by M3Matt on Wednesday, April 14, 2021 7:14 AM

Some sort of staggered wing biplane...

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  • From: New York
Posted by jcbitter on Friday, March 26, 2021 7:32 PM

OK in no paricular order Bell 47,C-5,C-130,C-131,KC-135,C-141,UH-1,O-2,B-29

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Posted by GlennH on Friday, March 26, 2021 10:09 AM

The actual model nomenclatures escape me:

C130's

Huey's

Chinook's

Made jumps from: Cessna and DeHaviland Beaver

Got to rig a load of 155 projos to a CH54 skycrane once.

A number Army Viet Nam scans from hundreds yet to be done:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/southwestdreams/albums/72157621855914355

Have had the great fortune to be on every side of the howitzers.

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  • From: Ohio (USA)
Posted by DRUMS01 on Sunday, February 28, 2021 6:52 PM

I can't remember them, but I will try...

UH-1 Iroquois

OH-6 Cayuse

OH-58 Kiowa

CH-47 Chinook

UH-60 Blackhawk

C-130 Herc

The following as a walk through and sit-in only:

C-17 Globemaster (Air Show)

C-5 Galaxy (Air Show)

B-17 (Air Show)

HE-111 (Air Show)

Space Shuttle (NASA)

 

Military land vehicles:

M60A1

M1A1

M113

M151

M2

M88

M577

Gamma Goat

M109A2

M110A2

M520 Goer

HMMWV

5 ton and duece 1/2 trucks

 Guess what service I was in (smile)????? 

 

"Everyones the normal until you get to know them" (Unknown)

LAST COMPLETED:

1/35 Churchill Mk IV AVRE with bridge - DONE

NEXT PROJECT:

1/35 CH-54A Tarhe Helicopter

 

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Posted by Eaglecash867 on Sunday, February 28, 2021 4:15 PM

Good stuff, CrashTestDummy.

As far as sitting in a cool piece of aviation history goes, I sat in a B-1A when I was 5 in 1976.  My dad was an AF avionics instructor assigned to the new bomber.  That same B-1A is still here in Denver, on display at Wings Over the Rockies.

"You can have my illegal fireworks when you pry them from my cold, dead fingers...which are...over there somewhere."

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Posted by CrashTestDummy on Sunday, February 28, 2021 2:23 PM

Let me see if I can remember. My Dad was a career Air Force pilot, and flew for an oil company after he retired. One of my uncles, also a career Air Force Pilot, retired to a life as a test pilot, finally ending up as chief pilot at Lear. So, I got to ride in, or fly:

Cessna 172, 210, 208 on floats (trip to Dry Tortugas)

Beechcraft Bonanza and twin Bonanza, Baron, Queen Air, Knig Air (Ride to go out over the gulf to view Haley's Comet!)

Piper twin

Grumman Gulfstream I and II (Flew the II for a bit)

Dassault Falcon 10 and Falcon 20 (Flown the 20, too)

Hughes MD500 (at a Society of Experimental Test Pilot's convention)

Lear Jet 23, 24 and 25, including the bird that was being delivered to George Peppard after he made is in 'The Blue Max' movie.

B-25

That's all I can remember being airborne in, or flying, that's not commercial. I also got to climb through MANY Air Force, and one RAF aircraft of the 1960's and 1970's accompanying my Dad to the flight line, including the No. 1 747 and No. 1 C5A, which were undergoing flight certification testing when my Dad was stationed at Edwards AFB.

G. Beaird,

Pearland, Texas

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  • From: Lakewood, CO
Posted by kenjitak on Saturday, January 16, 2021 2:10 PM
My most interesting flight was an Aeroflot An-124 from Moscow to St. Petersburg, Russia, and a few Russian-made 727 copies in China.

Ken

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    June 2007
  • From: New York
Posted by jcbitter on Wednesday, January 13, 2021 10:00 PM

Bell 47,UH-1,O-2,C-5,C-130,C-131,KC-135,C-141

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