What exotics have you sat in?

Steyr

IAC Alouette 3
IAC SA365F Dauphin2
IAC CM170 Fouga Magister
EC135-Garda
ICG Sikorsky S61N
IAC Siai Marchetti
IAC CASA CN235MPA
USN Sea Hawk
USN FA18 Hornet
USN F14D Tomcat
USA Blackhawk
RN SeaKing AEW
GAF Tornado ECR
MarineFlieger Tornado
USAF A10 Thunderbolt 2
USAF F16c Falcon
USAF C130 Hercules
USAF C141 Starlifter
RAF Tucano
FAF Alphajet
RNLAF Pilatus PC7
USA Chinook
Civvy Jet provost

To name a few:D

whupass

aww cheater your in the air corps aren't you?

ahh well i've been in the usual,
737-400
747-400
and some airbus


i didn't always have the foresight to find out the type

robinph

Sat in Concorde a couple of weeks ago with my 96 year old granddad sat in the pilots seat.

oscarBravo

C141 Starlifter, right seat.
Blackhawk, left seat.

That's about it, I'm afraid.

Bradidup

Tiger Moth joyflight. (passenger)
Bolco Helicopters (Lighthouse Service work)

Steyr

whupass wrote:

aww cheater your in the air corps aren't you?

He he i wish, my Dad is the Organiser of the Salthill Airshow!:D

jmayo

Flown C150, C152, C172, C180, PA18, PA28, PZL Wilga, R22...and a few types of gliders and balloons.
Been in DHC Beaver, Lockheed L-188 Electra, DC3, R44, Hughes 300, AN-2, MD 500.
Tyre kicked all the standard military stuff, including the very flat tyre of USN Seahawk...not sure if tyre kicking counts here?

RadioRetro

Flown (as SLF) in DC3, Jet Provost, Piaggio 149, F27, de Havilland Comet (many times), VC10 (ditto), Dornier 27 & 28, An2, Vickers Viscount (fair few times) & Vanguard, 707 (half slf, half freight - weird!), 727 (a few times), Sud Aviation Caravelle (twice), Hawker Siddeley Trident (couple of times), Huey (we needed to catch a flight 140 miles away and missed our connection so Dad commandeered an Air Force chopper!:D) and a de Havilland Rapide.

Davidth88

Flown on

B727/737 ( most models ) / 747-200 -400 /757/767/777
A300/320/319/318/321/330/340
Trident 1E / 3
Tristar ( different models )
BAe ATP ( bigger version of 748 )
F27 ( was it the F27 that EI used to use or was that a FH227 ? )
ATR 42 / 72
DC10/MD11
DC9/MD80/82
Couple of ballons

Piloted

PA28
C152/172

Sat in

F4
A10 ( and flown a simulator , that was fun ! )
F14
F18
C2
Concorde
VC10
Walked around Starlifter ( C141 ) Galaxy ( C5 ) Herc ( C130 )
HS125
Few other light aircraft I can't think of right now .

Been in jump seat of BA 737 when it went through the old air corridor going into Berlin ( that was wierd )


For some reason I always prefer Airbus's to the equivilent Boeings , no idea why.

RetroRadio... What were the Comets ? DanAir ? Caravelle/707/VC10 you must be around my vintage, I remember watching the Luftwaffe Do28's going in/out of Northolt...... wierd noise they made

RadioRetro

Comet

VC10
G-ARVA is actually in my BOAC Junior Jet Club log book! It was our final flight leaving Sudan *sob!* And this is how we walked out to her at Khartoum Airport, oh the memories!

Steyr

I LOVE the VC10's such a classic smokey Aircraft the way God intended it to be.

RadioRetro

And so quiet inside with loads of legroom (according to my mother when discussing it last night as we looked at some shots my Dad took - I was ickle at the time so legroom wasn't a problem!).

Bradidup

I can remember the VC10s in Heathrow as a kid they were noisy, What ever happend to that Junkers 52 that was lying up in Dublin Airport for ages, they must be as scarce as hens teeth now.

Davidth88

Blimey...... someone mentioning Ju52.........

I forgot , one time we went to the Spanish Airforce Museum , they let us loose in their storage facility ....

So add to my list

Ju52
Nord Atlas, ill have to hunt out my photo where I was pretending to be a parach

They had piles of Ju52 frames, ie 10 or 12 ( I think they built them in Spain at some point ).

I just LOVED VC10's , if you stood on the Queen's Building at LHR and one taxied past they made the wierdest whistling noise.

pclancy

Davidth88 wrote:

Been in jump seat of BA 737 when it went through the old air corridor going into Berlin ( that was wierd )

What was that like? Weird controlled flying down a specific route through the soviet area? Tell more....

pclancy

Sadly as much as ive always loved flying ive managed to get on hardly anything interesting...

737/747/757s
A321s and 20s
Jetranger for a trip around orlando years ago....

Sat in spitfires, a harrier and a tornade at duxford and farnbourogh. Got onto the static concorde at Duxford. Thats bout it!

Davidth88

Pclancy

It was during the time when the wall was falling ( you remember they showed people with hammers etc , that was me ! )

Anyway, you had to decent to 18,000 which is really quite low , and then you were controlled by the American controllers in Berlin . No Soviet controllers that I remember.

We landed in thick fog , I remember the 1st Officer flicking the autopilot off at 50ft and landing manually because he had to get a manual landing in his log ...... I was amazed that counted as a manual landing !

The really fun part , I was in the jump seat , but there was a check Captain on board , he and the PIC insisted I stayed up there for the landing and he sat on a bulkhead ( very naughty ).

We got stopped by security leaving Berlin with bags full of rubble ( parts of the wall ) and all they could do was laugh !

Climbing out of there it was daylight , miles and miles of area that the Soviets obviously played wargames with tank-tracks/bunkers etc ..... really odd.

No chance of getting up-front nowadays !

I remember landing in a Air Manx ATP at Kerry in the jumpseat one time, the next time I flew in a FR 737 , I nearly had a heart attack ( I was in a normal seat ) when we passed what I knew was the end of the runway at about 80 knots still breaking .... little did I know that they had extended the runway in the year or so between visits !

DeBeere

Flown as 'Co-pilot' in:
Eurocopter EC120
Augusta 109 power/grand/C

Sat in:
Sikorsky s76

Flown:
Robinson R22

RadioRetro

Davidth88 wrote:

So add to my list

Ju52

I just LOVED VC10's , if you stood on the Queen's Building at LHR and one taxied past they made the wierdest whistling noise.

Sadly, that's not a Ju52 as the Spanish had licence built and re-engined German built examples but both types were officially referred to as the CASA 352.

But we'll keep that just between us, shall we? It's a feckin' Ju52

And thanks for reviving that long-buried memory of the whistling VC10 engines, I'd forgotten that.

Davidth88

Ok a CASA 352 is exotic enough.......

There must be a few people on the boards here who remember the Magisters they really had a high pitched whistle ( or the Paris )

Did anyone ever see the inside of the Paris ? An exec jet made out of a Magister basically ... what did the VIP's do lie down ? :-)

I remember them coming into RAF Northolt.

RadioRetro

Wierd looking thing right enough, although it looks as if the passengers were allowed to sit up;

shanew

I flew in a Pitts Special in Arizona - got to pilot the plane for
aerobatics for about 1/2 an hour over the desesrt !! unforgettable.

flown as passenger on :

Twin Otter, Some Big Sikorsky Chopper, Rallye


Shane.

Steyr wrote:

IAC Alouette 3
IAC SA365F Dauphin2
IAC CM170 Fouga Magister
EC135-Garda
ICG Sikorsky S61N
IAC Siai Marchetti
IAC CASA CN235MPA
USN Sea Hawk
USN FA18 Hornet
USN F14D Tomcat
USA Blackhawk
RN SeaKing AEW
GAF Tornado ECR
MarineFlieger Tornado
USAF A10 Thunderbolt 2
USAF F16c Falcon
USAF C130 Hercules
USAF C141 Starlifter
RAF Tucano
FAF Alphajet
RNLAF Pilatus PC7
USA Chinook
Civvy Jet provost

To name a few:D

Davidth88

Pitts Special eh ! I am impressed

Were you sick ?

There was a time when they were the 'de-rigur' aerobatic aircraft at all the shows..... I remember the Rothman's Team

shanew

I dont get air or sea sick so that was not a problem. The speed
that it was able to pull flick rolls was amazing - literally just yank
the stick left - wait 2 seconds and you're back upright.

I still remember his instructions on parachute use - "you'll
know we have a problem if I get mad and leave the
plane. When you leave the plane dont shout
Geronimo or count to 3 - just find the rip-cord and
pull like hell!!!'

I remember the Rothmans team - very impressive.
Was there there 3 planes in that at one stage ?

I seem to recall that one the displays pilot who appeared
in airshows around that time was called Arthur Wignal -
he crashed during practice or a display in a Pitts in think.


S.

Davidth88 wrote:

Pitts Special eh ! I am impressed

Were you sick ?

There was a time when they were the 'de-rigur' aerobatic aircraft at all the shows..... I remember the Rothman's Team

Davidth88

There were three in the team if I remember. I also seem to recall that girls in catsuits used to wander around giving out free fags during the show .... would never be allowed nowadays .

I don't remember Arther Wignall however.

Didn't the Pitts have a fuel system that worked inverted as well or something ( as I suppose all fully aerobatic aircraft do )

Can anyone answer what the pylon things stuck on the end of some aerobatic aircraft wings are for ? Are they to allow you to keep some sort of perspective , if so how do they work?

Steyr

They show you if your level with the Horizon as you look out to your left or right ( wherever you place them ) or both sides ( if you have them on both sides )

Davidth88

I suppose an artifcial horizon would break , or you want to keep you head out of the cockpit.

Thanks Steyr, I knew it was something like that , I remember I even asked an owner of a CAP one time , but I couldn't remember the answer.

armchairninja

SAT IN:

IAC Alouette III
IAC Gazelle
IAC Dauphin
IAC EC 355N Squirell (Garda)
IAC Defender 4000 (Garda)
IAC Fouga Magister
IAC Marchetti
IAC Cessna FR 172 H/K
IAC Beechcraft ( also flown simulator)
IAC Casa CN 235 ( and the one on loan in early 90's)
IAC Gulfstream 4
IAC Avro Anson
IAC De Havilland Vampire

USAF Chinook
USAF A-10
USAF AH-64 Apache
Canadian Air Force C-130 Hercules
RAF Harrier
Sweedish Saab Griffen
F-14 (american I think)
F-18 (american i think)
F-16 (french i think)

Boeing 737 - 300
HS 125

Been in a few others but i was younger so cant remember, basically, i had a blast at the 97 and 00 air shows in baldonnell

Bob the Builder

whupass wrote:

ahh well i've been in the usual,
737-400
747-400
and some airbus

Same here, airbus 330, and also one of the navy helicopters because I was on medical duty on reek sunday last year.

Steyr

armchairninja wrote:

IAC Defender 4000 (Garda)

How did you get into that even people i know who are well in with the IAC cant get into the GASU Defender....

armchairninja

Steyr wrote:

How did you get into that even people i know who are well in with the IAC cant get into the GASU Defender....

dad was a sergeant in the IAC when it first came in:D
its just a flying computer really, more leg room in a shopping trolley

shanew

I think the Pitts was Fuel Injected as we were inverted at
one stage (very wierd feeling!!!) and it ran fine - I assume
a carb. fuelled engine would splutter.

I looked to me (I forgot to ask) that the pylon thingies
at the end of the wing were reference markers - they
seemed to assist the pilot in lining up for good angles for
vertical climbs and correct attitude up after hesitation
rolls etc by lining up sections of the markers on the
horizon etc

I could sort of see from the front seat what they could do...


Shane.

Davidth88 wrote:

There were three in the team if I remember. I also seem to recall that girls in catsuits used to wander around giving out free fags during the show .... would never be allowed nowadays .

I don't remember Arther Wignall however.

Didn't the Pitts have a fuel system that worked inverted as well or something ( as I suppose all fully aerobatic aircraft do )

Can anyone answer what the pylon things stuck on the end of some aerobatic aircraft wings are for ? Are they to allow you to keep some sort of perspective , if so how do they work?

BendiBus

Ilyushin 62
Rallye100

Has this forum always existed? Never noticed it before!

Davidth88

Bendibus

IL62 .... brave man . I have always sworn that I would never ever ever fly on a USSR/Russian built aircraft , esp the TU154 that seems to fall out the sky a bit too often for my liking.

What was it Aeroflot ?

armchairninja.

F16 wouldn't have been French , ever since they threw a hissy fit back in the 60s and jumped out of NATO they haven't shared equipment... must have been Belgique/Dutch/Danish I guess....
Nice list though !

BendiBus

Davidth88 wrote:

Bendibus

IL62 .... brave man . I have always sworn that I would never ever ever fly on a USSR/Russian built aircraft , esp the TU154 that seems to fall out the sky a bit too often for my liking.

What was it Aeroflot ?

Yes, SNN-Leningrad (yes Leningrad, not St Petersburg!) and Moscow-SNN.

Davidth88

Leningrad eh !

Arhhh the old days when Aeroflot used to carry a translator in the cockpit.

Was that the flight that went on to Cuba , in those days Aeroflot were the only people that went there wern't they ?

Was the service as bad as everyone made out ?

I remember LHR ground staff were on strike one time , the guys who tow the aircraft basicly weren't doing it ( back in the days when the UK still had unions ) .

Anyway Aeroflot was having none of it , the IL62 on stand shoved its engines into reverse and pulled them selves out . And smashed every window in T2 at the same time !

armchairninja

Davidth88 wrote:

armchairninja.

F16 wouldn't have been French , ever since they threw a hissy fit back in the 60s and jumped out of NATO they haven't shared equipment... must have been Belgique/Dutch/Danish I guess....
Nice list though !

Cheers, knew it was from somewhere around that general area, cant fully remember because i was only ten at the time, think theres a load more aircraft for that list too, but again cant remember, there just the ones that stand out in memory