Simviation Forum - What was the first plane you remember seeing?

Reply #15 - May 1^st, 2002 at 3:57am

ViNtAgE FlYa Ex Member

looks like i'm the youngist hare Sad

i'm 15! & saw my first plane about 11 or 12 years ago... and you people saw your one about 30 or 40 years ago!...

hay Mushroom Farmer, what kinda old Air Force jet was it ? Grin

or was it unreconizible since thows danm hooligans striped it of it's pride?
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Reply #16 - May 1^st, 2002 at 4:33am

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hay Mushroom Farmer, what kinda old Air Force jet was it ?

It was either an F-86 or an F-84. I don't recall that far back. I remember it had a nose intake, single engine. I don't remember whether the wings were swept or not. I was so small, I could barely climb into the durned thing.

It was at a park near Brownsburg, IN. USA. It's probably Mountain Dew cans now.

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Reply #17 - May 1^st, 2002 at 11:54am

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looks like i'm the youngist hare
i'm 15! & saw my first plane about 11 or 12 years ago

Nope, I'm only 14! Wink

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Reply #18 - May 3^rd, 2002 at 7:18pm

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Nope, I'm only 14! Wink

I guess it only makes sense that I am 13 years old.

The first plane I saw was a 747 when I was nine months old. The first I remember is a 727. I was driving by the aerodrome and I saw it take off, Ididn't really know how or why bu I fell in love with planes from that day on...

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Reply #19 - May 4^th, 2002 at 11:08pm

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For me, it was probably a Boeing 737. I have lived about a mile or 2 from the airport in my hometown my entire life and it always has 737's taking off and landing.

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Reply #20 - May 8^th, 2002 at 8:50pm

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I remember the first plane I saw was actually at the first airshow I went to. Then I was at the tender age of 4. I remember walking across the airfeild with my grandpa when a pair of F-104 Starfighters flew over doing a low level pass. I still vividly remember hearing the rumble of jets heading toward me then becoming suddenly louder as they passed overhead (absofreakinlutly exhilerating Cheesy

). I guess that moment is what made me love aviation from that point forward.

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Reply #21 - May 9^th, 2002 at 3:25pm

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The first planes I saw was in 1939 when running home from school in South London dodging the German bombers who were busy razing my area to the ground!
We all evacuated shortly after to the country-side to avoid certain death.
A lot of my friends and neighbours were killed in that onslaught.
I spent the remainder of the war in Herefordshire among the cows and sheep, something we never saw in London!
...stopped here ever since, beautiful County!

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Reply #22 - May 20^th, 2002 at 9:55am

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Get this. Im 15 years old and Scottish, yet the first plane I saw was a R.C.A.F. F101 Voodoo.

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Reply #23 - May 20^th, 2002 at 10:50am

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I'm just a sprog compared with Fozzer. Grin

Although I've lived near an airport all my life the first aircraft I actually remember seeing was at the old Gatwick Airport. I believe it was the first post-WWII SBAC display. My Dad took me when I was 5 or 6 years old but I'm not sure of the exact date. Late 40s or early 50s.
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The aircraft was a B-17. It looked huge to me & dwarfed the tiny aircraft parked underneath. This was a one-off designed & built by the apprentices at Lockeed Aircraft Corp. It was so small the pilot flew it from the prone position strapped head-first on top of the the fuselage.The rudder pedals were near the tail. I've never seen a pic of this aircraft & don't remember the name. Maybe Felix can help. ???

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Reply #24 - May 20^th, 2002 at 10:57am

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i'm 14, so i'm not that old.
the first plane i saw would have been the 737 i flew to norway in when i was 1. however the first plane i really remember is a tiger moth that flew right over our car while taking off Wink

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Reply #25 - May 22^nd, 2002 at 10:12pm

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My first recollection is of a Tiger Moth - my Dad paid for me to have a flight when I was about 7. After that I can remember being allowed out of our classrooms to see a Vampire Jet come over and later a Canberra Bomber. Time flys ?

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Reply #26 - May 23^rd, 2002 at 12:13am

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I envy you guys with early Tiger Moth experiences. We don't get those around here. I don't believe de Havilland ever made an aircraft that wasn't loaded with character.

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Reply #27 - May 24^th, 2002 at 7:16pm

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The first plane I "saw" was a piedmont airlines 737. Granted, I was about 8 months old, but there's a picture of me looking at the plane and drooling. Prophetic, I guess, because I still do that

The one that sticks out in my mind the most is the B-1 that decided to do a few low, lazy circles over my high school during marching band practice. I've always wondered what exactly those guys were doing.

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Reply #28 - May 26^th, 2002 at 10:24pm

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I remember I was on a flight on a 747 when I was 6. Even more suprising it was my uncle flying the plane, so my mom told the stewardess to tell the captain that his sister is onboard. So, when she came back the stewardess took me into the cockpit.

If I become a commercial pilot, I would take a kid in the cockpit on every flight.

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Reply #29 - May 26^th, 2002 at 11:11pm

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Having lived off the end of Carswell AFB in the late 50s I believe the first plane that really made an impression as the first plane I had ever seen it would have to be A GREAT BIG ole B-36. Talk about loud. One dropped an airspeed calibration instrument through the roof of Brewer High school about 3 Miles from where I lived. I think it was the only thing they ever dropped from the plane. The next frightening thing was the B-58 I met some pilots years later and boy do they have some stories to tell about that screamer.

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