10 classic airliners you can still fly on... but hurry!
May 27, 2014, 6:23 am
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I was on a Convair 580 last week. Always entertaining when the pilot says, "we're going to make a run at the mountains."
I was on a Convair 580 last week. Always entertaining when the pilot says, "we're going to make a run at the mountains."
May 27, 2014, 7:34 am
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I remember flying jump seat on the flight deck of a Convair 580 from Anchorage to Prudhoe Bay some years ago....the old 580 with the Allison turboprop engines is quite an airplane.
Also flew on a Curtiss C-46 some years ago as well.....and the crew had the side cargo door open in the rear of the aircraft as we taxied out to the runway which enabled us to wave at a United Boeing 737 flight crew that kindly let us take off first. They waved back.
Also flew on a Curtiss C-46 some years ago as well.....and the crew had the side cargo door open in the rear of the aircraft as we taxied out to the runway which enabled us to wave at a United Boeing 737 flight crew that kindly let us take off first. They waved back.
May 27, 2014, 8:23 am
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actually getting to fly them rather than in them is a different story however.
May 27, 2014, 8:36 am
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Of course, this misses all of the classics that many of us flew frequently even the early years of the 21st century (setting aside the 20th century): DC9, DC10, 727, not to mention the A300, A310, Il96, Il86, Yak40, Tu154, Tu134, Jetstream31, Trislander, etc.
I am kicking myself for having missed the chance to fly the DC3 a few years back, however.
I am kicking myself for having missed the chance to fly the DC3 a few years back, however.
May 27, 2014, 8:52 am
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Of course, this misses all of the classics that many of us flew frequently even the early years of the 21st century (setting aside the 20th century): DC9, DC10, 727, not to mention the A300, A310, Il96, Il86, Yak40, Tu154, Tu134, Jetstream31, Trislander, etc.
I am kicking myself for having missed the chance to fly the DC3 a few years back, however.
I am kicking myself for having missed the chance to fly the DC3 a few years back, however.
May 27, 2014, 3:45 pm
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May 27, 2014, 3:53 pm
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Most of the aircraft shown in the link are likely older than you are, or at least older than the median age here on FT. As is typically stated, you are safer in any of these aircraft than you are driving your car. So, if your desire is to live as long as possible, you will fly these aircraft and give up driving.
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May 27, 2014, 10:46 pm
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Amend it being older than the median age of people on FT? Or, for safety record? What is the safety record of Cubana Illyushins? I don't recall any news reports of them falling out of the sky any time recently.
May 28, 2014, 5:53 am
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I also recall of an event in YUL a few years back of Cubana pilots took off after being repeatedly told to hold their position. That flight crew was no longer welcome flying into Canada.
I would pass on flying them.
Nov 14, 2018, 11:36 pm
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Now 4,5 years later, does anyone know if they still operate the 727? Iran might be a bit complicated to visit. But if that’s what it takes to travel a once so common aircraft that I only could fly a very few times and that’s almost gone now...