adambar Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 Mine was on 1961 going to Chicago on a TWA Super Connie. Ladies and gentlemen, do not be alarmed by the fire coming out of the engines--unless it goes out. 3 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Q Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 (edited) Mine wss from LaGuardia to Omaha in a DC 3. Return, and a couple of years later round trip Chicago in a DC 6. About 1953 and 1955. Little.kid and his Mom visiting the paternal grandfather. Ken Edited May 4 by Ken Q 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Heaton Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 1966 in the DH 83 Fox Moth from on the beach at Southport Lancashire UK cost was $A2 equivalent for 15 mins circuit of the town. 1st commercial Flight - BEA Viscount - Manchester Ringway to Glasgow1969 and return 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adambar Posted May 4 Author Share Posted May 4 I don't remember my first GA flight, but if I had to guess probably mid 50s on a C172 for about 30min around the area. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boetie Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 Don't remember the year, I was a wee chap but know it was in the early 70's, pretty sure 1972. It was a B727 Salisbury to Johannesburg South African Airways followed by a B747 Jo'burg to London Heathrow. The one thing that sticks in my mind is entering the 727 via the rear steps 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adambar Posted May 4 Author Share Posted May 4 20 minutes ago, boetie said: Don't remember the year, I was a wee chap but know it was in the early 70's, pretty sure 1972. It was a B727 Salisbury to Johannesburg South African Airways followed by a B747 Jo'burg to London Heathrow. The one thing that sticks in my mind is entering the 727 via the rear steps The 727 was my favorite airliner Graeme. I'll take the old commercial jets with all the noise and smoke anyday over the boring aircraft they have today. 😄 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodger Pettichord Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 Great question, Adam. My first plane rides were in a Cessna 172 with the local dentist, a family friend who loved to take my dad or me with him on rides. First commercial flight was on a 707 from San Francisco to Tokyo. I sang "Leavin' On a Jet Plane" all the way. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JesC Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 Barnstorming Ford Trimotor offering rides around Austin, Texas in about 1958. First time I got to handle the controls was a DC-3 flying from Houston to Oklahoma City when I was 12 years old. Both thrilling memories for me. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wain71 Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 82 or 83, back of a Hercules into Gibraltar... didn't tell the rest of the troops it was my first flight though.. Some great posts above this one though.. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Harmes Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 Wow! Lucky guy Adam. I sat in a Connie on the tarmac once at the Avalon Airshow. What a classic it is. I didn't have my first flight until 2009, funnily the same year I got FSX which was my first flight sim. My first flight was a short hop from Melbourne to Adelaide in a Qantas 737, a trip I do once or twice a year now, although I do occasionally drive. When I got to Aldinga, South Australia in 2009 I also had a joy flight in the Tigermoth, which was really cool. Anyone with the Carenado Waco YMF5 might also recognise this aircraft, also based at Aldinga 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gumbypickett Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 B727, YMLT TO YMML Trans Australia Airlines. I also entered through the rear end. Ok I'm waiting for it. cheers Gumby 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pilot100 Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 It was a stork, but I don't remember much about it as I wa only a baby...... 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodger Pettichord Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 31 minutes ago, pilot100 said: It was a stork, but I don't remember much about it as I wa only a baby...... Well, Brian, it was actually called a Fieseler Fi-156 Storch, made in Germany between 1937 and 1945. Fine little STOL plane perfectly suited for getting babies like yourself to wherever momma was. You must have fascinating dreams of pre-childhood. 😁 2 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pilot100 Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 Nah, wrong stork, mine was , so I'm told, white, had me in its bill and was self powered, ecologically sound - carbon neutral, and didn't need any landing space integral piloting system. The one you mention was before my time so it couldn't be right, used petrol and needed a pilot too. 😇 2 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adambar Posted May 5 Author Share Posted May 5 10 hours ago, Scott Harmes said: Wow! Lucky guy Adam. I sat in a Connie on the tarmac once at the Avalon Airshow. What a classic it is. I didn't have my first flight until 2009, funnily the same year I got FSX which was my first flight sim. My first flight was a short hop from Melbourne to Adelaide in a Qantas 737, a trip I do once or twice a year now, although I do occasionally drive. When I got to Aldinga, South Australia in 2009 I also had a joy flight in the Tigermoth, which was really cool. Anyone with the Carenado Waco YMF5 might also recognise this aircraft, also based at Aldinga That was the ride of a lifetime Scott nothing since has compared to it, the sound on takeoff was something else, never forget it. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Heaton Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 10 hours ago, Scott Harmes said: Wow! Lucky guy Adam. I sat in a Connie on the tarmac once at the Avalon Airshow. What a classic it is. I didn't have my first flight until 2009, funnily the same year I got FSX which was my first flight sim. My first flight was a short hop from Melbourne to Adelaide in a Qantas 737, a trip I do once or twice a year now, although I do occasionally drive. When I got to Aldinga, South Australia in 2009 I also had a joy flight in the Tigermoth, which was really cool. Anyone with the Carenado Waco YMF5 might also recognise this aircraft, also based at Aldinga would have made good photos for the - Orbx airports visited in real life - a rolling story 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adambar Posted May 5 Author Share Posted May 5 6 hours ago, gumbypickett said: B727, YMLT TO YMML Trans Australia Airlines. I also entered through the rear end. Ok I'm waiting for it. cheers Gumby Wouldn't touch that one with a ten foot pole Gumby. 😄 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfko Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 1980 on an El Al B707 from Munich to Tel Aviv. The security checks for this flight were incredible. Check in was in its own converted, heavily guarded hangar far away from the terminals. There was even a small tank (one of those with wheels) positioned outdide the hangar. Within the hangar officers painstakingly checked every single passenger's item. They inspected every piece of clothing in the baggage, e.g. turned around every pair of socks, opened toothpaste caps, to check whats really inside. I had to make shots with my camera etc.There really was not one single item which was not inspected. When we rolled to the TO runway, we ware accompanied by the small tank. And I am pretty sure ,10 % of the passengers have been Mossad agents. But in the end all this gave one a feeling of safety. 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stillwater Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 It must have been a flight with my parents in a propeller plane from Bremen to some place in Bulgaria in 1971. I can not remember much more, but there must be a photo of the plane somewhere... 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adambar Posted May 5 Author Share Posted May 5 8 hours ago, John Heaton said: would have made good photos for the - Orbx airports visited in real life - a rolling story Sadly I didn't have a camera John, I was on my way to bootcamp. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Abernathy Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 C172 into the S Calif mountains at Tunnel Meadows for a two week hike up to Mt Whitney 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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