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For me it was a flight in a Hapag-Lloyd A310 form Hannover to Palma de Mallorca (eddv to lepa) togehther with my parents. I think I was about 7 years old or so. By the way, the flight back was in a MD-82 of Spanair.

Johannes

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The first flight I ever took was quite a boring one, in reality... A chartered "Orion" B737-200 from Birmingham (EGBB) to Lyon Satolas (LFLL) full of schoolkids going on a French Exchange trip.

Either that or an Iberia Airbus A310 from Birmingham to Palma de Mallorca for a family holiday (we usually visited relatives in Devon, so a trip abroad was very rare!) but I can't actually remember which was first.

Ian P.

No one seems bothered by FOD anymore. When I started in aviation we were hammered about FOD. No hats on the flight line and remove insignia or sew it on. I once spent half an hour groping in an engine inlet behind the lower half of the particle separator looking for a bent cotter pin. Fortunately I found it or a long afternoon would have been a long night.

maybe not where you come from but it is a huge issue and is not taken lightly anywhere I am aware of, right up there with runway incursions on the nasty scale

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I was 22 years old and the flight was from Heathrow to Kai Tak Airport in Hong Kong.
I thought all landings would be like that, just took it as normal lol
I still remember people looking down at us from their windows and balconies.
Quite something.

I was too young to remember my first flight, but it was some kind of Airbus from the UK to Germany in the early 80's. The first flight I remember was when we moved from the UK to America, and we flew in a British Airways L1011 Tristar... I remember being really mad because I had been told that I'd get to fly in a Jumbo Jet... The next trans-Atlantic flight was in a BA DC-10, but I eventually did get to fly in a 747-(200 and 400). Those days even in Economy we got bags of travel type stuff, and I got to visit the pilots and "fly" the plane... Fun for an 8 year old!

The aviation bug gripped me and for my 16th birthday the parents got me a 30 minute aerobatic flight in an AT-6 Texan... (I was a little green after all the loops and rolls, but you couldn't wipe the smile off my face for weeks!) Needless to say I ended up taking flying lessons shortly afterwards, but sadly ran out of money before I could get my PPL.

Since then for many years it has been a goal of mine to fly on as many cool or different airplanes as I can, and not counting many different airliners and GA types, I've flown in a Dragon Rapide at Duxford, a helicopter over Manhattan, and I flew in the B-17G Yankee Lady just a few weeks after A2A flew her for research. I also flew in a New Standard D-25 at Old Rhinebeck, and a DHC-3T Otter with skis, which we landed on a glacier by Mt. McKinley in Alaska... and I got stuck in traffic one day recently and missed my chance to fly in the C-47 Tico Belle in Titusville, FL.

Every year at the WWII Weekend airshow in Reading, PA there are rides in a Dauntless, Helldiver and Mustang, and this year the B-29 Fifi was giving rides too... As soon as I have steady income again I need to put some money aside for one of these!

I've never flown in a float plane, so that is on my list!

Joe

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Then my latest video should jog some memories!

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Best regards,
Robin.

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A2A/AccuSim. 'nuff said!

I was about 10 yo living in Wichita, KS. My best friend's dad owned a classic yellow Piper Supercub (along with a black 57 T-bird and '62 Vette with original paint). Anyways, we flew out to some small burger restaurant next to a grass strip, ate lunch and flew back to Jabara Airport. On the way back we ran into some weather. My memories are limited, but I remember him cork-screwing down suddenly to drop altitude. We got back alright and I was hooked for life.
John

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My earliest memory of being in an airplane was sitting in the last row of a Northwest B727. It was LOUD.

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Earliest memory? Thinking the damn thing was about to fall out of the sky as it made its first turn after taking off.

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The first one I remember vividly was with my dad when I was about 5. My mother was in hospital so he took me with him to work. He was a captain at Sterling, flying the Caravelle. We took off from Copenhagen Kastrup, heading for Madeira Funchal, with a stop in Faro, Portugal on the way home if I remember it right. The feeling of joy and excitement sitting in the first officer´s seat, following the controls and listening to the radio chatter is something I will remember always. Beautiful bird, the Caravelle.

Eastern called them "Whisper Jets"

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My 1st Flight in any kind of Aircraft was in a Ford Tri-Motor - one of those 3 Engine jobbers,,, my dad managed to get this guy who owned to take us up flying for a quick Jaunt around the Airport,,, that was back in 1976 ! Reminded me of flying in a Corrigated Sheet Metal Barn with Windows, and 3 very loud motors, equivelent to a Tin can or something,,, I thought back then, people actually flew in these things and enjoyed it, those chairs were solid and straight up too hard on your back,, definetly NOT for comfort, like todays aircraft,,, loud,,,,, Ohhh ya, it was loud and Hott to, as I remember, it was Summer of 1976, in July or August, I thought my dad had got us a ride in an Oven,,, I was never so glad to get out of that thing and find Air-Conditioning ( the car),, in my life,,, these type of Aircraft look really neat to me now,,, and kinda cool,, but I'll never fly in 1 again, unless its Spring, Fall, or Winter,,, Summer just don't cut it in 90 - 100* heat, as I recall !! The Ford Tri-Motor, whats that they ask,,,, ??????? Well see one here in detail -------} http://www.ipass.net/ginkgo/N9612home.html

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Very cool Jetranger.... not too many people can say they've seen a Ford Tri-Motor, let alone had their first flight on one! I'd kill to sweat it out on an old plane I've not flown on before! A good friend of mine just flew on the world's oldest airworthy Boeing, the Boeing 40C, I'd love to do the same...

Joe

I was 17 when I first flew. My girlfriend's father was a KLM pilot, but he also flew other things....
One day, he took me to Gilze-Rijen airbase in the south of the Netherlands and I got my first flight in this:



I'm still dreaming of an accusimmed version..

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