Lexy From United States of America, joined Jun 2006, 2362 posts, RR: 9 Reply 1, posted (4 years 4 months 3 weeks 6 days 7 hours ago) and read 4709 times:
DUALRATED From United States of America, joined May 2008, 1001 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (4 years 4 months 3 weeks 6 days 7 hours ago) and read 4707 times:
Af773atmsp From United States of America, joined Aug 2006, 2574 posts, RR: 2 Reply 5, posted (4 years 4 months 3 weeks 6 days 6 hours ago) and read 4693 times:
GDB From United Kingdom, joined May 2001, 12708 posts, RR: 80 Reply 8, posted (4 years 4 months 3 weeks 6 days 4 hours ago) and read 4678 times:
I was 17, new at BA.
However, for my first flight (in an era well before LCC's), was not a case of waiting to get my staff travel concessions.
Since it was a C of A renewal air test, on BA B747-136 G-ANWE, LHR-LHR, August 1983.
This involved a nearly empty aircraft, just tech crew, CAA observer and a few of us Engineering staff.
We took the Jumbo over the English Channel, a beautiful clear day, England on one side through the cabin window, France on the other.
Then the aircraft did a succession of stalls, you had the high angle of attack, then hearing the stall warning horn through the open door of the cockpit (we were seated on the upper deck).
A strange sensation, then a lurching drop.
After recovering, repeating the process several times, it was thrilling!
This from someone who does not do fairground rides and would never do a parachute drop, but on this aircraft, I felt secure, it was a case of your stomach being left behind at the drop, maybe the fascination I felt offset anything else.
Then we were testing the O2 system with masks dropping, generally threw the aircraft around more than you'd get on a normal flight.
Being topped off by a low level, high speed pass over the military airfield at Boscombe Down, there must have been a deployment of USAF F-111's there, since I remember seeing them on the ground as we flashed past.
My second flight was in Feb 1984, another BA 747 air test, G-BDXK, delivered to LHR after a period of storage in the US, after the early 80's recession deffered delivery.
An acceptance flight this time, so none of the hardcore stuff from my first flight, though we did do a touch and go at the then rather sleepy airport at Stanstead.
G-BDXK was in a unique config, a short lived all economy cabin since the aircraft was going to LGW for the then charter subsidary, British Airtours .
My 3rd was a pleasure flight in a DC-3, LTN-LTN, passing over London and LHR.
Very different, tailwheel aircraft, no pressurisation, throbbing engines, noise, so some of the other pax were throwing up, hang on, this is a flight for enthusiasats!
Call themselves aviation fans?
Pah!
And after those, normal airline flights, boring!
I was spoiled early on I guess, until I had some flights on Concorde.......but that's another story.
Classic 747 with classic entertainment system namely projector and big screen right in front of my face! Add lots of turbulance to that and you had one very sick 8 year old girl! I didn't like it at all
StarAlliance38 From United States of America, joined Jan 2008, 1445 posts, RR: 4 Reply 10, posted (4 years 4 months 3 weeks 6 days 2 hours ago) and read 4668 times:
My first flight was in 1998 on a DC-9 with Northwest ORF-DTW
Jonjonnl From Netherlands, joined Dec 2007, 135 posts, RR: 0 Reply 11, posted (4 years 4 months 3 weeks 6 days 2 hours ago) and read 4667 times:
My first flight was in June 23 1991 on a LH 733 as an UM. It was flight LH 1937 LIS - DUS where my father was waiting for me. The weather was horrible and we were circling the skies for quite a while.
als het verhaal over de hel nou eens niet waar is, dan staan wij allemaal voor gek
CO7e7 From United States of America, joined Dec 2004, 2848 posts, RR: 2 Reply 12, posted (4 years 4 months 3 weeks 6 days 1 hour ago) and read 4659 times:
DeltAirlines From United States of America, joined May 1999, 8771 posts, RR: 13 Reply 15, posted (4 years 4 months 3 weeks 6 days ago) and read 4651 times:
1986, less than a year old. Flew USAir LGA-BTV on a 737-300 (according to flight schedules from the time).
WhatUsaid From United States of America, joined Feb 2007, 595 posts, RR: 0 Reply 17, posted (4 years 4 months 3 weeks 5 days 7 hours ago) and read 4601 times:
FAT-SFO on a UA CV-340, on the first leg of a trip to Yellowstone that would involve a UA DC8 SFO-SLC; Western Electra from SLC to WYS and back to SLC: Frontier CV 580 from SLC to Montrose for connection to DEN (UA was on strike then); Western 720B from DEN to SFO. Pacific Airlines F27 from SFO-FAT. Great introduction to flying at the age of 10.
DAL763ER From United Kingdom, joined Oct 2008, 404 posts, RR: 0 Reply 18, posted (4 years 4 months 3 weeks 5 days 5 hours ago) and read 4596 times:
April 7th, 2000 BUD-TUN. I don't know whether it was a charter or not. Nor do I know the aircraft. Maybe someone knows what Tunisair was flying to Budapest in 2000. From what I know it was an Airbus. At least so I think, because it was a 3-3 config.
Where aviation is not the side show, it's the main show!!!
PGNCS From United States of America, joined Apr 2007, 2516 posts, RR: 45 Reply 19, posted (4 years 4 months 3 weeks 5 days 4 hours ago) and read 4586 times:
I don't recall when, but I do recall it was a Delta 727-100 series aircraft from CLT-ATL. I remember the mid-galley very clearly for some reason, and I recall we sat on the A-C side of the aircraft.
Srbmod From United States of America, joined Mar 2001, 16888 posts, RR: 51 Reply 20, posted (4 years 4 months 3 weeks 5 days 3 hours ago) and read 4581 times:
November 1990. Flew on a DL L-1011 from ATL to SLC. I had the entire middle row to myself as my mom and stepdad were sitting in the row in front of me.
If I wanted to be picky, I could say it was a helicopter ride around LZU back in 1987.
TurkishWings From Turkey, joined May 2006, 1407 posts, RR: 9 Reply 22, posted (4 years 4 months 3 weeks 4 days 16 hours ago) and read 4562 times:
I started flying quite late. I was 18 on my first ever flight and I remember it like yesterday. It was also my very first flight as a flight attendant. I was on a Turkish Airlines 737-400 flying IST-MUC-IST on 11 December 1999. If only there was a way of finding out the exact aircraft I flew on that day....
The purser told me to take off in Business Class (which was almost empty) and watch the crew serve throughout the flight. Most of the time, I was admiring the winter scenery below. In MUC, we left the aircraft and did some shopping at the Duty Free shops. I remember a More&More shop. Is it still there?
It might have been this aircraft or one of many TK was flying back then
B747forever From United States of America, joined exactly 6 years ago today! , 16574 posts, RR: 11 Reply 23, posted (4 years 4 months 3 weeks 4 days 15 hours ago) and read 4558 times:
AA757MIA From United States of America, joined May 2008, 227 posts, RR: 0 Reply 24, posted (4 years 4 months 3 weeks 4 days 15 hours ago) and read 4552 times:
PMV-CCS-MAR on an Aeropostal's DC-9 in 1986.
25 Jeremy: It was in 1978, around April or May, aboard a Western 727-200, from LAX-SFO-RNO.
26 UltimateDelta: Midwest Express flight 58, OMA-DCA in July 1995 when I was four months old. This was back in the DC-9 days, and we actually flew on this ship: View La
27 Isitsafenow: Well, I guess someone has to be the 'blast from the past' so ..... FIRST RIDE......... Sometime in 1948 I was three years old and mom had to get home
28 HOOB747: Haha! Don't say "last", just say most recent!! My first flight was when I was 2 years old, Seoul to Seattle, in April 1971. I don't even know the air
29 EICVD: I was 7, was sometime in 1994 on an EI 737 DUB-LHR
30 Danfearn77: Wow what a great first flight! I wish i could say the same for mine. I must have been about 5/6 and it was a Flying Colours(FCL) (later became JMC th
31 Allrite: Apparently, my first flight was sometime between when I was 18 months - 2 years old (~1976): MEL - ADL. It was on either TAA or Ansett and if someone
32 N174UA: SFO-ORD on a UA DC-8-62 (or maybe a -71?) in late July, 1973. I was about 2 1/2 weeks old at the time!
35 JetBlueAUS: I was four months old and I was onboard a Southwest jet with service from Houston - Hobby (HOU) to New Orleans (MSY).
36 RAFVC10: I think that this post has been discused last year... My first flight was on 1977, from BCN to LPA in an Aviaco flight operated with DC8 equipment. I
37 FatmirJusufi: First flight was on April, 1999. SKP - TEQ on Air Alfa Fatmir
38 PlymSpotter: 1987, I wasn't even a year old, when myself and literally my entire family flew LHR-MLA on an Air Malta B720 for Christmas. It was a present from my g
39 D328: SCE-IAD on a Jetstream 31 or 32, for UA Express...Then a DC-10 to DEN. The first I remember that is.
45 Richbpor: For me I was six in 1967. My father was an army officer and I we were being relocated to Trippler Hospital Hawaii but first we went to see relatives o
46 Dc863: My last ever 707 flight in June 1982 was on a TWA aircraft from CLE-JFK. It still had those domed light fixtures.
47 Planeguy727: June 1973 JAL (unsure of equipment) from Beiruit to Ankara
48 PanAm747: Eight years old and I remembered all but one of the planes and all of the itineraries and airlines!! December, 1974: My mom, baby sister, and I starte
49 SpeedBirdA380: My first flight was London Gatwick to Orlando in April 1993 with British Airways. I got to visit the flightdeck and was given a colouring in pad compl
50 Boots00: That would have to be... ORD-MCO on AA in 1997.
51 VHTJE: CNS - MEL, via BNE, in December 1981. I was 11 years old. It was on a TAA (TN) 727. We changed planes in BNE for then new TAA A300, which was a direct
53 ERJ135: I posted my fist trip above which was when my family migrated from the Netherlands to Sydney Australia. Since then I have married and had a daughter a
54 Golf1411: My first trip: BRU-NCE with 737 SABENA
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