USAIRWAYS321 From United States of America, joined Jul 2001, 1806 posts, RR: 10 Reply 1, posted (8 years 9 months 4 weeks 1 day 22 hours ago) and read 3018 times:
ERJ135 From Australia, joined Nov 2000, 670 posts, RR: 1 Reply 2, posted (8 years 9 months 4 weeks 1 day 22 hours ago) and read 3013 times:
The first aircraft I ever got to fly in was a KLM DC-8, reg PH-DCC on April 22nd 1967. I got off the aircraft two days later after six stops in a new country which I still call home.
BCAL From United Kingdom, joined Jun 2004, 3384 posts, RR: 18 Reply 5, posted (8 years 9 months 4 weeks 1 day 16 hours ago) and read 3006 times:
For me it was a BEA Viscount from Heathrow to Gibraltar in the early 1960s! I cannot remember much about the flight as I slept for most of the journey, but I remember Gibraltar Airport very well. At the time it was nothing more than a hanger with a few chairs and counters and many RAF personnel!
Although I cannot remember anything about the trip I am sure that around the same time my father's firm chartered a DanAir Ambassadors for a trip from Gatwick to Palma and I was a passenger on this aircraft. I have searched records and cannot find out if DanAir (or DanDare as we often called it) ever had an Ambassador fleet.
In about 1963 I flew on a BEA Comet 4B to Rome - Fiumicino (Leonardo was then being constructed!) (Sorry if the spelling is incorrect).
MOL on SRB's latest attack at BA: "It's like a little Chihuahua barking at a dying Labrador. Nobody cares."
Yanksn4 From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 1392 posts, RR: 13 Reply 6, posted (8 years 9 months 4 weeks 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 3002 times:
July 26, 2004
United Airlines
Flight 245 Chicago-O'hare International Airport to Denver International Airport
Aircraft- Boeing 767-322
XJRamper From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 2345 posts, RR: 52 Reply 7, posted (8 years 9 months 4 weeks 1 day 14 hours ago) and read 2997 times:
Mine would be a US Air DC-9 from TOL-DAY sometime in 1984
Iakobos From Belgium, joined Aug 2003, 3304 posts, RR: 38 Reply 11, posted (8 years 9 months 4 weeks 1 day 7 hours ago) and read 2985 times:
Tenderfeet... here are some of the good ol' times..
DC-6B BRU-Tripoli-Libenge-Stanleyville 1954
a dozen flight (and first loop) in an immaculate yellow Piper Cub '54
half a dozen in DC-3 '54
couple in DC-4 '54
DC-6B Stanleyville-Cairo-Rome-BRU 1955
Flown (as so far as my memory serves)
DC-3 DC-4 DC-6 DC-7C DC-8 DC-9 DC-10
L-1011 MD-80
B-707 B-720 B-727 B-737 B-747
C-119 Bristol Freighter
Avro RJ (the whole family)
Saab 340 Short 330 CRJ
F-27 F-50 F-70 F-100
A330 A300 A320 A319
a dozen GA models...and I must be missing some
WidgetBoi From United States of America, joined Mar 2004, 1432 posts, RR: 21 Reply 13, posted (8 years 9 months 4 weeks 1 day 7 hours ago) and read 2978 times:
Ams From United States of America, joined Aug 2003, 1689 posts, RR: 12 Reply 14, posted (8 years 9 months 4 weeks 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 2975 times:
It was British Airways from Washington Dulles IAD to London Heathrow LHR
on a 747.
Pbiflyer From United States of America, joined Apr 2004, 185 posts, RR: 1 Reply 19, posted (8 years 9 months 4 weeks 11 hours ago) and read 2949 times:
Eastern Airlines Super "C" Constellation in March 1956 from MIA - PHL - JFK (Idewild back then) and return from BOS - MIA. Flight from JFK to BOS going north was cancelled due to a blizzard!
Malb777 From Australia, joined Jul 2004, 462 posts, RR: 1 Reply 21, posted (8 years 9 months 3 weeks 5 days 22 hours ago) and read 2934 times:
Brittania Airways B737 London Gatwick - Palma Majorca 1973. I was that excited about it the first thing I done on takeoff was throw up. Thankfully I do not get that excited anymore and hence never thrown up in a plane again
thank god i was not born a bird. this type of flying is much better
26 Splitzer: Summer 1992 - Aged 4/5. Balkan Tu-154 from Teesside to ??? in Bulgaria. I remember vivid things like covering me ears from the noise when boarding, th
27 N228ua: Ansett or TAA, Maitland to Brisbane Australia, Fokker F27 when I was about 5 years old. To this day I still wonder why they called it a "Friendship" c
28 N864DA: My first flight was on an Air Canada DC-9-30 LGA-YUL at 1 month old.
29 PennPal: Not sure if this counts, but my first "commercial" flight was a public relations tour of SW Florida on a Martin 404 flown by PBA. They were introducin
31 Tbanger: Mine was a brand spanking new B742 of BA in 1975. SYD-SIN-BOM-LHR. I remember the aircraft was certified to carry out autoland and the crew decided to
32 Vatveng: My first flight (that I can remember) was sometime in the late '70s, United 737 (I'm pretty sure it was a 737, definitely a narrowbody but with 3+3 se
34 Ringwaymanc: Cal Air DC-10 1989 MAN-IBZ-MAN sat in the flight deck for about 15 minutes during flight, I worked at ringway and knew the Cal Air crews..Hence the fl
38 PU707: My first commercial flight was on an Aerolíneas Argentinas Hawker Siddeley 748 on MVD-AEP route, June 19, 1974.
39 4jaded: The Year Late 1966 very early 1967 I was an infant.. Air California either L188 or 737 sna to sjc my mother took me away to escape my birth mother who
46 C172N: My first commercial flight was on a Monarch Airlines 737-200, G-BMON. The route was EMA - AGP - LTN. The outbound leg was from East Midlands as the ai
48 AireuropeUK733: Mine was with Orion Airways (now taken over by Britannia) in February 1983 on the 737th 737 from LGW to TFS. I remember the extremely loud noise of re
54 Boac707: May 1967 YUL to MAN...BOAC 707...(hence the name)
55 Canberra: Except for a few sightseeing flights on some light aircraft, my first flight (though not commercial) was between the two Danish Airbases Karup and Vae
57 StarCruiser: My first flight was on AA and it was a Convair 240 in 1952 from MAF to DAL. It was followed in short order by an AA DC-6 from DAL back home to MDW. Ba
58 Austin767400: Mine was when I was 7years old On a TWA MD-80 From CMH-STL in 1996!!!! Austin767400
59 SimProgrammer: July 1973: B Cal BAC 1-11 from LGW to PMI
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