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

Reply #60 - Nov 9^th, 2002 at 2:08am

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Believe it or not, I don't really remember the type, but I was taken as a very young Geordie, to see some gliders landing on a field, near to where I lived in South Sheilds. I think they were Cadets of a sort, but that is not the one I really do remember seeing.....It was the Fairey Delta 2 which I saw fly high overhead ......World speed record holder around that time too.....next one I do remember, is when I left England on a Bristol Britannia, and as we taxied out, I can remember, very vividly seeing the glasshouse front of a Stratocruiser in BOAC colours.....which incidentally, is the airline I was being flown out by. After being in Canada for a few months, my parents bought a house in the flight path of Malton airport and we had the good fortune to move in next door to a person working on the biggest project of the time and see the Avro Arrow on many occaisons.....

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Reply #61 - Nov 9^th, 2002 at 12:49pm

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I guess the first plane I saw was a Piper Pa-18/180HP at the age of 1 month, my dad flyes them all the time, or maybe it was a blanick L-13 at the same age

The one I flew for the first time was a cessna 182 RG at the age of 7 months...

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Reply #62 - Nov 14^th, 2002 at 8:28pm

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The first plane I ever saw was a TBM 3-E Avenger. The first plane I ever flew in was a 1947 Luscombe 8B. The first plane I ever piloted was a Cessna 170, and the first plane I ever owned was a USAF Harvard Mk.IIA. I now own a TBM, RCAF Harvard Mk.IV, an SNJ-5 "Fly-By Knight," and a Fairchild PT-26A "Shug."

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Reply #63 - Nov 14^th, 2002 at 9:57pm

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The first plane I ever saw was a TBM 3-E Avenger. The first plane I ever flew in was a 1947 Luscombe 8B. The first plane I ever piloted was a Cessna 170, and the first plane I ever owned was a USAF Harvard Mk.IIA. I now own a TBM, RCAF Harvard Mk.IV, an SNJ-5 "Fly-By Knight," and a Fairchild PT-26A "Shug."

Wow, that's a very impressive collection. With all those "greenhouses" you could do horticulture when you're not flying Wink

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It would be nice if you could post pictures of them some time.

Doug

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Reply #64 - May 26^th, 2003 at 9:39am

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first one i remember hearing were french Mirages somewhere in southern france.

First flight of my whole life was on a 747-400, and a DC-9 clone in the same vacation.

The thing i will remember is one of the rare tupolev visits to schiphol.

Whe i rode my bike from school to my home i saw the unusual (it's mostly 737, 757, and fokker F-27/50) shape of a Tu-154, with its big brown smoke cloud trailing behind it.
Normal ATC route is (depending on wind conditions): departures (01R) to the north over the village where i live, arrivals (19R) near the eastern edge of Alkmaar (where my school is)

My father rode a Tupolev (or ilyushin) in 1976 for a trip to Baku, and with a company day-off held the controls of a cessna for a few minutes

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Reply #65 - May 27^th, 2003 at 5:08pm

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The first plane I saw was a 1971 or 69 172 my dad had one and I flew in it at the age of 6 years and I am now flying with my friends in all kinds of aircraft ranging from single engine to multiengine just yesterday I flew in a 1980 Baron 58 with Ken Lacon and I did the flying from KCHA to KCZL david Calhoun GA and I have loged almost 18hours with 2 intstructors but I can not get my medical because of those stupid petty maw seisures so I am going to own a kitplane called a sonex and I know over half of the aircraft built from 1946-2003 anyone want to try me?

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Reply #66 - May 27^th, 2003 at 7:19pm

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First civilian plane I believe was a DC-9. My mothers best friends father worked at the local airport so I got the whole inside outside tour of a DC-9. That would have been early 70's. First military was a F-4 fly over while I was camping with my grandparents

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Reply #67 - May 28^th, 2003 at 6:27am

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First plane I remember was in the mid eighties, somewhere near RAF Mildenhall and was bright red (memorable eh?). Anyway it was a Hunter (even more memorable - we know how to make good looking aeroplanes this side of the channel, I think G-BOOM, a 2 seater).

The first aeroplane I flew in was a DH Dragon Rapide (nice) from Sywell I think when I was about 3 (before seeing the Hunter) but I don't really remember that. The first aeroplane I FLEW would be the DHC Chipmunk. Solo the C152 and the fastest the Sepecat Jaguar. 8)

The first aeroplane I remember hearing would be the Vulcan or the Lightning...

TAROM (Romanian) airlines TU-154 is the aeroplane I most wanted to get off ('cos one was ill you know...) Undecided

Sorry for boring you all

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Reply #68 - Jun 4^th, 2003 at 2:20pm

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The first one I remember is an Aer Lingus Airbus A320
The most famous plane I have be on is the prototype Concorde REG G-AXDN
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Reply #69 - Jun 4^th, 2003 at 3:39pm

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My first plane to fly on and see was a SAAB 340. I was about four at the time and I was going to California with my grandparents to visit my aunt. It was very loud and very turbulent, but it was great.

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Reply #70 - Jun 4^th, 2003 at 3:44pm

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well that answers a question i asked a few weeks back what it was like to fly on the saab340:) mesaba memphis to tupelo, in a few months, i have flow that route a million times in flight sim and now i get to do it for real. cool Grin

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Reply #71 - Jun 4^th, 2003 at 3:57pm

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Sounds like fun, have a good time!

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Reply #72 - Jun 4^th, 2003 at 6:31pm

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The first plane I was on was a Canadian Airlines aircraft. Probably a 757.

I only pretend to know what I'm talking about. Heck, that's what lawyers, car mechanics, and IT professionals do everyday. Wink

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