Fly One Aircraft That's Still In Commerical Svce

Pe@rson · Mon May 19, 2008 3:57 pm

If you could fly one aircraft that's still in commerical service which would it be and why?

It is, for me, a difficult decision - there are so many rare aircraft that I'd love to fly - but quite possibly the 74L or 707.

wilco737 · Mon May 19, 2008 4:03 pm

Quoting Pe@rson (Thread starter):
If you could fly one aircraft that's still in commerical service which would it be and why?

I think it'll be the 747-100! or the 707 as well! Or the 747SP?

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B742 · Mon May 19, 2008 4:06 pm

Mine would have to be either one of the 707, 747SP or IL86 models.

Rob! wave

larshjort · Mon May 19, 2008 4:24 pm

The SAHA 707

/Lars

JGPH1A · Mon May 19, 2008 4:37 pm

Quoting Pe@rson (Thread starter):
74L

Been on LOADS of those

Quoting Pe@rson (Thread starter):
707

...and those...

Quoting WILCO737 (Reply 1):
747-100

...and those.

I'd have to pick the IL86 or the ATP.

Pe@rson · Mon May 19, 2008 5:02 pm

Quoting JGPH1A (Reply 4):

Quoting Pe@rson (Thread starter):
74L

Been on LOADS of those

Quoting Pe@rson (Thread starter):
707

...and those...

Quoting WILCO737 (Reply 1):
747-100

...and those.

What a show off! Big grin

Quoting JGPH1A (Reply 4):
I'd have to pick the IL86

One of the cheapest ways to do this, assuming you don't have a airline employee pass or whatever, is to fly SVO-AER = £70 one-way. Alternatively, you could fly, say, SIP-SVO-UUS (UUS is an Russian island near Japan) on the ILW and IL9 for around £225 all-in one-way.

RAFVC10 · Mon May 19, 2008 5:57 pm

Any Lockheed C-130 Hercules of the civilian version.

Regards,

Gerard

OHLHD · Mon May 19, 2008 6:06 pm

B707
Tristar
DC-10
TU-3
IL-62
ATP
YAK40 + 42
IL86
IL96

Smile

B747forever · Mon May 19, 2008 6:20 pm

Would love to fly on the MD-11 before they gets to rare. (i.e. before KL and AY retire them)

PlymSpotter · Mon May 19, 2008 6:26 pm

Quoting Pe@rson (Reply 5):
One of the cheapest ways to do this, assuming you don't have a airline employee pass or whatever, is to fly SVO-AER = £70 one-way. Alternatively, you could fly, say, SIP-SVO-UUS (UUS is an Russian island near Japan) on the ILW and IL9 for around £225 all-in one-way.

Quoting JGPH1A (Reply 4):
I'd have to pick the IL86 or the ATP.

You mean you haven't done the ATP already, pah, call yourself an enthusiast - get to the Azores now! And the Il-86, well I'm flying that in literally two months time, so ner ner ne ner nerrr! tongue

Mine would be the SAHA 707 - I'm working my but off now and about to start doing 14 hour shifts 5/6 days a week so that if Iran ever decide to give me a Visa when I apply for the third time, then I can go there straight away! I'd also want to get on the A312 and all the other Iranian rarities over there... mmm, one can dream! I'm also going to have a go when I'm in Baku in July, see if I can persuade the embassy there to gibe me a visa as I can get the coach to Tehran quite cheaply. Or perhaps I could hide under a lorry, what's the penalty for illegally entering Iran I wonder? scratchchin

Dan

UltimateDelta · Mon May 19, 2008 6:31 pm

I'd say either the 707 or L-1011. Of course, there is also the 727, but the last time I flew on it was in 1999.

Pe@rson · Mon May 19, 2008 7:09 pm

Quoting PlymSpotter (Reply 9):
get to the Azores now

Absurdly expensive! Looking at £200-£250 return to PDL. Add £150 more and you could fly the 741 or 742 LHR-THR-LHR.

Dan, what are you doing this Dec or Jan 09?

wilco737 · Mon May 19, 2008 7:47 pm

Nobody has picked the MD11 yet duck

Isn't that still the best aircraft out there? a good ol' threeholer Big grin

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PlymSpotter · Mon May 19, 2008 7:54 pm

Quoting Pe@rson (Reply 11):
Absurdly expensive! Looking at £200-£250 return to PDL. Add £150 more and you could fly the 741 or 742 LHR-THR-LHR.

When I did it in October last year I got my LIS-PDL tickets for £176, and LIS-LHR for £40, so yes it's expensive, but it's worth it; both for the aircraft and the scenery over there - I'd love to go back ASAP.

Quoting WILCO737 (Reply 12):
Nobody has picked the MD11 yet Isn't that still the best aircraft out there? a good ol' threeholer

I've flown that one already but I'm looking at doing it again in November, so in response to James's question I'll hopefully be doing LHR-HEL-PEK on an AY MD-11 and then coming back overland by train.

Dan Smile

wilco737 · Mon May 19, 2008 7:58 pm

Quoting PlymSpotter (Reply 13):
I've flown that one already but I'm looking at doing it again in November, so in response to James's question I'll hopefully be doing LHR-HEL-PEK on an AY MD-11 and then coming back overland by train.

very good! And don't forget to get another G-WOWD flight before that one rotfl

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Pe@rson · Mon May 19, 2008 8:20 pm

Quoting PlymSpotter (Reply 13):
When I did it in October last year I got my LIS-PDL tickets for £176, and LIS-LHR for £40, so yes it's expensive, but it's worth it; both for the aircraft and the scenery over there - I'd love to go back ASAP.

Sounds great. Yet, as you said, very expensive. Hmm. Maybe if I can get a great deal sometime...

Yflyer · Mon May 19, 2008 8:35 pm

I know there are aircraft that are less common, but I've never been on one of those NWA DC-9s before, and I'd like to before they're gone.

wilco737 · Mon May 19, 2008 8:38 pm

Quoting Yflyer (Reply 16):
and I'd like to before they're gone.

Oh don't worry, they'll be around another 40 years Big grin

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JGPH1A · Tue May 20, 2008 6:35 am

Quoting RAFVC10 (Reply 6):
Lockheed C-130 Hercules

...and LOADS of those.

Quoting Pe@rson (Reply 5):
Alternatively, you could fly, say, SIP-SVO-UUS (UUS is an Russian island near Japan) on the ILW and IL9 for around £225 all-in one-way

That would be fun - can one get from UUS to anywhere else (e.g. Japan) ?

Quoting WILCO737 (Reply 12):
Nobody has picked the MD11

Who hasn't been on an MD11 ? Blimey...

Quoting PlymSpotter (Reply 13):
LHR-HEL-PEK on an AY MD-11

Oh yes, I forgot. The n00b. That is a very boring trip, you should do the SIP-SVO-UUS thing instead.

NG1Fan · Tue May 20, 2008 8:22 am

Quoting OHLHD (Reply 7):
B707

Flown as a kid, also onDC-8

Quoting OHLHD (Reply 7):
Tristar

Haven't flown....

Quoting OHLHD (Reply 7):
DC-10

Transcon in the USA as a kid

Quoting OHLHD (Reply 7):
TU-3

During nine years in Russia, I started to actively avoid this type. Flown them on SU, Pulkovo, UTAir, and a couple of others. Very cramped... And on UTAir, I scored the seat in the row right in front of this cabin reinforcing rib. Seat could not recline. And the flight DME-Surgut was four hours.

Quoting OHLHD (Reply 7):
IL-62

Still to fly. Getting harder....

Quoting OHLHD (Reply 7):
ATP

Still to fly

Quoting OHLHD (Reply 7):
YAK40 + 42

FLown on both types, though Yak-40 only once - probably my slowest flight VKO-LED. But our office wasn't far from VKO, so by the time traffic to SVO was taken into account, worked out to be the same trip time. Unfortunately, I did not get the rear-facing seat with the large fixed table in front of it.
Yak-42 I've flown probably on 5 round trips Moscow-Krasnodar. Once in J on Avialinii Kubani when S7 Tu-154 went tec in Krasnodar.

Quoting OHLHD (Reply 7):
IL86

FLown two return trips Moscow-AER. Once on Domodedovo Airlines in all-Y layout, and once on SU. Boarding via the integrated air-stairs and that fabulous vestibule. Stair is right next to APU, and damn noisy.

Quoting OHLHD (Reply 7):
IL96

Yet to fly....

NG1Fan

babybus · Tue May 20, 2008 9:22 am

I've been on everything except the 747sp and all the Russian jets.

I've been on loads of Russian jets, just not flown in them.

OHLHD · Tue May 20, 2008 12:52 pm

Quoting WILCO737 (Reply 12):
Nobody has picked the MD11 yet

Having not flown them yet is big minus on my list, but maybe I will be able to get on the MD-11F this year. Smile

Quoting NG1Fan (Reply 19):
Quoting OHLHD (Reply 7):
IL-62

Still to fly. Getting harder....

My choice will be Cubana I believe but this is getting also hard and could not last long anymore.

Quoting NG1Fan (Reply 19):
Quoting OHLHD (Reply 7):
IL96

Yet to fly....

I have yet to convince my girlfriend to use the MOW-SGN SU IL96 Smile

Pe@rson · Tue May 20, 2008 1:00 pm

Quoting OHLHD (Reply 21):
My choice will be Cubana I believe but this is getting also hard and could not last long anymore.

Go to the Russian Far East. Quite easy to get on them there, i.e. on KHV-GDX-KHV.

Quoting OHLHD (Reply 21):
I have yet to convince my girlfriend to use the MOW-SGN SU IL96

I flew the IL9 SVO-DEL. Can't remember much about it though, so must get on it again.

Quoting OHLHD (Reply 21):
Having not flown them yet is big minus on my list

I've flown AMS-CAI-AMS on the M11, yet, like the IL9, can't remember much about the flights, so must again fly the M11.

B747forever · Tue May 20, 2008 2:13 pm

Quoting WILCO737 (Reply 12):
Nobody has picked the MD11 yet

Please see my reply Angry

wilco737 · Tue May 20, 2008 2:16 pm

Quoting B747forever (Reply 23):
Please see my reply

You post way too much to actually read them all duck

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OHLHD · Tue May 20, 2008 2:28 pm

Quoting Pe@rson (Reply 22):
I flew the IL9 SVO-DEL. Can't remember much about it though, so must get on it again.

I get Staff tickets so no problem at all. Big grin

Quoting Pe@rson (Reply 22):
Go to the Russian Far East. Quite easy to get on them there, i.e. on KHV-GDX-KHV.

Thought about that too but we will see. But the SVO-AER looks nice you mentioned. I might do that in July!

Quoting WILCO737 (Reply 24):
You post way too much to actually read them all

Pe@rson · Tue May 20, 2008 2:45 pm

Quoting OHLHD (Reply 25):
I get Staff tickets so no problem at all.

Able to help your favourite A.nutter - cough, me, cough - to get more discounted tickets? angel

LOL

I already have 20 flights booked that should enable me to get on 13 new aircraft - unless damn substitutions occur. I'm thinking about an Iran tour this year, maybe in Dec, maybe Sept, but I'm not sure yet. It would be cheap - around £600 for all the flights, accommodation, visa (if I can get one - Plymspotter's applied twice, declined twice), etc. Could fly 741 or 742, 722, 707... But not sure whether I'll be able to do it this year. Hmm.

PlymSpotter · Tue May 20, 2008 5:52 pm

Quoting WILCO737 (Reply 14):
And don't forget to get another G-WOWD flight before that one

Oh I'm sure I will silly

Quoting JGPH1A (Reply 18):
you should do the SIP-SVO-UUS thing instead.

Once I get to Irkutsk on the train, I plan on getting off for a week and flying back to Vladivostok or elsewhere in the Russian Far East, hopefully to catch a Dalavia Il-62 cloudnine

Dan

Pe@rson · Tue May 20, 2008 7:13 pm

If you're ever after a very cheap one-way ticket LON-MOW, consider this example, based on the 16th September:

STN-HHN = 1105-1320 = FR = 738 = £4.99 all-in
HHN-VKO = 1510-2010 = XF = 320 = €68.78/£54.76 all-in

= £59.75 all-in

Of course, very boring aircraft, but a brilliant price - and you could get that price for the return, too.

[Edited 2008-05-20 12:19:51]

varig_dc10 · Tue May 20, 2008 7:49 pm

Being realistic;

A310-300
757-300
767-400
BAe-146-100/RJ85
DC-9-50
MD-90

And if I could go back in time;

Concorde
A300-B1
BAC-1-11
737-100
Trident
VC-10

Varig_dc10

PlunaCRJ · Tue May 20, 2008 9:45 pm

Tupolev 154!!

A great looking airplane, with lots of character, and, best of all, glorious noise!!

Too bad they are flying half world away from where I am, and that a trip to meet this lady would be very, VERY expensive for me.

UltimateDelta · Tue May 20, 2008 10:58 pm

Of course, a DC-9, DC-10, or MD-11 would also work.

ClassicLover · Wed May 21, 2008 6:45 pm

Absolutely categorically has to be the Boeing 707.

I haven't had the pleasure, and really want that pleasure.

My other aircraft is not in -commercial- service - the VC10. Wonder if we could get together a one hour a.net charter with the RAF for a whirl in the FunBus!

JGPH1A · Wed May 21, 2008 8:20 pm

Quoting ClassicLover (Reply 32):
My other aircraft is not in -commercial- service - the VC10. Wonder if we could get together a one hour a.net charter with the RAF for a whirl in the FunBus!

Would love to go on a VC10 ! Sign me up for the charter.

OHLHD · Thu May 22, 2008 8:33 am

Quoting JGPH1A (Reply 33):
Sign me up for the charter.

Count me in!

ipilot777 · Thu May 22, 2008 9:41 am

Of course, the MD-11!!! And going with the popular demand, I'd like to add 707 too!

helvknight · Fri May 23, 2008 12:02 pm

Quoting WILCO737 (Reply 12):
Nobody has picked the MD11 yet

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Quoting B747forever (Reply 8):
Would love to fly on the MD-11 before they gets to rare. (i.e. before KL and AY retire them)

For me it would be the classic 4 holers - 707 or DC8 or the VC10. Also the Trident.

[Edited 2008-05-23 05:05:06]

planewasted · Fri May 23, 2008 12:16 pm

1. IL96
2. B707
3. A380

amigocharlie · Fri May 23, 2008 3:33 pm

wish to be on:
1. B727
2. B732
3. T154

already did it Big grin

1. A380
2. MD11
3.B77W

MHG · Sun May 25, 2008 5:17 pm

At least i´ll be filling a gap in my list this coming october ...

Staying in SE Asia arriving at BKK and returning from MNL i´m seriously considering to fly THAI OASIS on their 747-100 (BKK-HKG)
Just hope the airline is still alive then ... Wink

... and maybe KRABI AIRLINE (B 747-300) if they ever get the airline started Yeah sure

burnsie28 · Sun May 25, 2008 11:02 pm

Without question the DC-9, the beautiful tank of the sky, it would be an honor to fly such a well built aircraft that is easily outlasting most aircraft out there.

Delta763 · Mon May 26, 2008 6:54 am

I've ridden most of the classic American jets.

I somehow missed out on MD-11s. Still need to ride a 777, though I'm sure I'll get my chance sooner or later.

Got to fly top deck on a 744 a few years ago which was a big deal for me. My other big aviation goal of flying a Concorde never came to pass, though. At least I got to see the inside of one at the Intrepid.

If I had to pick a dream ride today, it would have to be one of the Russians. Never been on any of them. I'd love to fly on an Il-96 or Il-62, though for what I do, that's pretty unlikely anytime soon.

wilco737 · Mon May 26, 2008 7:03 am

Quoting Delta763 (Reply 41):
My other big aviation goal of flying a Concorde never came to pass, though

Join the club. When I had the chance I let it pass by because i thought: she'll be around a few more years. 2 years later she was gone... And I saw them only in London, Manchester, Washington, Seattle, Sinsheim... At least something! cry

Quoting Delta763 (Reply 41):
I somehow missed out on MD-11s.

There are still some chances to get on an MD11. You should do it, she's great Big grin

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hercppmx · Mon May 26, 2008 1:11 pm

I know Aloha was the last US carrier to fly them on Commerical PAX service, somewhere they still have to be in use. 737-200. OR. Another Trip on a TRISTAR will do just fine.

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