Your First Flight?

[AllanL]

First flight '53 KLM Prestwick - Calcutta - Probably Convair 240 to Amsterdam & then Constellation to Calcutta - aged 1. (Flew steerage in QANTAS Connie from Calcutta to Dundee to be born - guess that doesn't count. )

First single seater flight - RAF Hemswell in last wood and fabric open cockpit single seater operated by the RAF. Well that's what I told my kids - Slingsby Prefect to you in '70. Pill*ck who flew it after me wrote it off and got everyone into deep trouble for allowing him to fly it with only 3 solos in his log. So had I, but I didn't bend it.

[John]

um now let me see, I think it was in a Rallye at Popham. First jetliner? A Monarch 720. Most memorable first flight G-BOAC

Kind regards

John

[mgchristy]

First flight ever was in a Piper Cherokee Six out of Doylestown Airport, Pennsylvania during their annual 'Open House'. I think I was about 12 at the time.

First time at the controls was when I was 15; Cessna 150, reg N150EQ, out of the same airport.

First commercial flight was on a 727 at the age of 14. Continental Airlines from scenic ( ;-) ) Newark, NJ to Houston, TX. I was so excited/nervous that I refused the free onboard meal once airborne. I couldn't stay focused long enough to even think about food! I'll never forget the excitement I felt during that initial rush of acceleration on takeoff...

[FlyTexas]

I was so excited/nervous that I refused the free onboard meal once airborne. I couldn't stay focused long enough to even think about food! I'll never forget the excitement I felt during that initial rush of acceleration on takeoff...

On my first commercial flight (a DC-9 out of Dallas) I accepted the complementary danish and orange juice but hardly touched them...too busy looking out the window. I still get excited when getting pushed into the seat on takeoff.

Brian

[cjw50310]

I was less than a year old for my first ever flight - not much remembered there. ;-)

First commercial flight I remember was on an American Eagle ATR from Cedar Rapids to St. Louis, followed by an MD-80 to Washington National.

First general aviation was much briefer; a Cessna 206 to about 10,000 ft AGL, took much less time to get back down (didn't use the plane) .

[RJP]

Mine was in an Air Malta 737-200, Gatwick - Luqa in about 1980.
First 'military' ac was an AEF Chippie at Teesside (when IIRC the Leeming runway was being resurfaced)
First glider flight was at the ATC VGS at Catterick, approx 1989 (where I did my gliding course, 1990).
First helicopter flight, not sure first was the JetRanger at Blackpool or Gazelle at Sunderland.
First flight I was paid to be on was approx 1991, a Herald from Coventry to Ostend.
Last flight, yesterday, a B727, Kirkuk - Bahrain

Rgds
Richard

[VEGAS]

Here's my stats:

First flight on aircraft: Aer Lingus 737-248 EI-ASH, EGCC-EIDW, July 1986 (visited the flightdeck during the cruise as well!)

First air experience flight: Chipmunk T10, reg n/k, RAF Woodvale, August 1989

FIrst flying lesson: Cessna 172N, G-BNTP, EGCB-EGCB, September 1990

Most recent flight: Embraer 145, G-RJXH, EGPH-EGCC, Sunday 19th April 2009 (returning from my stag do!! )

[WhisperJet]

Right, it took some time to figure that out:
Mine was from Zurich to Palma de Mallorca in Spring 1978.
Sure it was a Swissair flight, must have been a DC-9-50.
I was about 5 months old.

;-) ,

nick

[Kevin Farnell]

My first flight was as a 5 year old in either '69 or '70.
I had just had surgery to correct a 'hole in the heart' - they told my parents that I shouldn't travel prior to that.

Tha aircraft was a BEA Airtours DH Comet 4B from Gatwick to spain.
Don't know the reg, although I would love to find out.

Most recent flight Airbus A380, Singapore Airlines - last Saturday.

Regards

Kevin

[Motormouse]

Here we go then....

First Flight...1976, Chipmunk WP840,Bembridge

First Airsickness, C-130,Lyneham,1978 ;Khe San stlye approaches at Upper Heyford.

Glider, RAF Halton, 1979, Kirby Cadet, (attention Rick Piper we need one of these in FS too.... )
Glider Aerobatics, Halton 1980, L13 Blanik
Glider solo, RAF Halton 1980, L13 Blanik

First flying lesson...Cherokee,Elstree,1980

Fast-jet ride, Buccaneer, Bodo,Norway 1982

First 'Stick and rudder' time in a commercial plane ....Fokker 27, PH-FGE, somewhere over Sahara Desert,1992;
during a 600nm leg with no navaids, and no autopilot, "Pete, can you come and hold this for a bit?"

'Unusual Attitude' in a commercial plane, Jetstream 41, somewhere over Irish Sea, 1993, C of A flight -testing

'Lowest I've ever been without gear down' ,Challenger, Woodvale, 2008, testing newly fitted EGPWS kit

most recent flight..737-400..Czech Airlines..yesterday...ooo-er

ttfn

Pete