What classic airplanes do you wish you had flown in?
Jul 10, 2017, 2:54 pm
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What classic airplanes do you wish you had flown in?
Here's the opposite take on some extant posts:
What classic passenger airplanes have you NOT flown in, but wish you had?
For me:
Boeing - 707
Lockheed - Electra and Constellation
Douglas - all prior to the DC-8
Concorde.
I'm counting only the general type, not every variant.
What classic passenger airplanes have you NOT flown in, but wish you had?
For me:
Boeing - 707
Lockheed - Electra and Constellation
Douglas - all prior to the DC-8
Concorde.
I'm counting only the general type, not every variant.
Jul 10, 2017, 4:51 pm
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I would give my right arm to fly on a "flying boat" from the 30's. Any of them.
Although I flew on the 707s and DC8's as a child, I have little memory of them and would love another shot.
Vickers Viscount would be fun.
And I really really really would love to fly on the Trident...at full speed!
Never got to fly on Concorde. Would love to.
And lastly, the Superconnie.
Although I flew on the 707s and DC8's as a child, I have little memory of them and would love another shot.
Vickers Viscount would be fun.
And I really really really would love to fly on the Trident...at full speed!
Never got to fly on Concorde. Would love to.
And lastly, the Superconnie.
Jul 10, 2017, 5:09 pm
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I hadn't really thought of the Clippers - I suppose I was only considering planes that were still in commercial passenger use since the time I began flying.
My first flight was in a Vickers Viscount! I've also flown in a Ford Trimotor, but within the past year, the one that the EAA tours around the country, not in regular passenger service. However, the Trimotor was still flying to the Lake Erie islands during my lifetime.
My first flight was in a Vickers Viscount! I've also flown in a Ford Trimotor, but within the past year, the one that the EAA tours around the country, not in regular passenger service. However, the Trimotor was still flying to the Lake Erie islands during my lifetime.
Jul 10, 2017, 5:22 pm
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Of the ones that were available after I became an adult, a CV-880. TWA still had a few in the late 70s and I tried to get one MCI-LAX, but never could. Would've liked to have flown in a Connie, but there were only a few when I was a kid and didn't fly often.
Jul 10, 2017, 5:35 pm
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I've been on the 707 and L1011, but never Concorde. I always wanted to do the deal where you did it in one direction and combined it with a QE2 crossing but the dates never worked out.
Jul 11, 2017, 5:20 am
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Concorde (we bought my Dad a trip in it for his birthday in the 80's and still have the salt and pepper pots....)
De Haviland Comet (preferably we a bit of extra glue on the windows)
Vulcan
Oh and the One in Where Eagles Dare at the end, is it a Dakota?
De Haviland Comet (preferably we a bit of extra glue on the windows)
Vulcan
Oh and the One in Where Eagles Dare at the end, is it a Dakota?
Jul 11, 2017, 5:20 am
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DC3 for me. I'd heard of the Buffalo flight a few years back and was planning to get up there and take it for the experience, but that went away last year and as far as I know, hasn't returned. I'm assuming it never will, and that was the last DC3 commercial service that I knew of. I'll have to find one flying for private rides.