What was the first airplane you ever flew in as a passenger?

bmc · Post by **bmc** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 6:07 am

Subsequent to my other thread, what was the first airplane you ever went up in?

My first trip was on an Air Canada Vickers Viscount routing Montreal-Ottawa-Val D'or-Earlton in 1969.

niss · Post by **niss** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 6:10 am

In 1987, still the sexiest plane IMHO.

bmc · Post by **bmc** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 6:47 am

My wife has fond memories of flying El Al. She vividly remembers a purser wheeling a commisary cart down the aisle. When he hit her foot, he didn't back up and move it around her. He pulled it back and jammed it up over her foot, giving her a dirty look.

Brantford Beech Boy · Post by **Brantford Beech Boy** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 9:37 am

When I was a kid, we played a home-and-away hockey series with a team from Iqaluit.
My first time on a plane was on GFRB on the trip up north.

I eventually went on to fly GFRB as an F/O.

BBB

iflyforpie · Post by **iflyforpie** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 12:14 pm

1993 (Flew on a few helicopters before that). Special thanks to the flight crew for letting me sit on the flight deck!

HS-748 2A · Post by **HS-748 2A** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 12:43 pm

Bell 47 G2, CF-ETR

niss · Post by **niss** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 1:02 pm

Suicide is painless....it brings on many changes.....and I can take or leave it if I please!!!!!!

HS-748 2A · Post by **HS-748 2A** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 5:25 pm

niss wrote:Suicide is painless....it brings on many changes.....and I can take or leave it if I please!!!!!!

Is that what you're going to say before your last airplane ride Niss?

ottawa,kan · Post by **ottawa,kan** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 5:32 pm

GAds what a bunch of youngsters. Mine was either a DC4 or a DC-6. 4 engine prop, not pressurized.

Cat Driver · Post by **Cat Driver** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 5:47 pm

My first airplane ride was in a Sea Bee off the water in 1947.

Meecka · Post by **Meecka** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 6:24 pm

The first one I remember was in a Beaver in northern Ontario, I was very young at the time. I've been told by my family that the first thing I flew in was a DC-9 when I was six days old.

200hr Wonder · Post by **200hr Wonder** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 6:34 pm

CP Air 737-200 YVR->YYC to visit my aunt and uncle. I think I still have a deck of CP Air Cards somewhere from that flight. Back in the day when they did things like give you a deck of cards.

xsbank · Post by **xsbank** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 6:46 pm

My 12th birthday. Not the exact one - sorry about the size:

niss · Post by **niss** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 6:47 pm

HS-748 2A wrote:
niss wrote:Suicide is painless....it brings on many changes.....and I can take or leave it if I please!!!!!!

Is that what you're going to say before your last airplane ride Niss?

That is the theme song from MASH, that song always goes through my head when I see that helicopter.

Troubleshot · Post by **Troubleshot** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 7:39 am

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The old man was a mountie, I used to fly with him all the time to nain, davis inlet, rigolet, etc from Goose Bay when I was a kid. Good memories.

Louis · Post by **Louis** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 9:19 pm

My first was this Air Canada Boeing 727 (C-GYNA), as a few-months-old baby in 1985, from Montreal to Vancouver.

First one I actually remember was a Piper Navajo from St-Hubert to Sept-Iles (CYHU-CYZV).

Edit 1, 2009-11-01: Asked my parents.
Edit 2, 2010-01-20: Found actual video taken in flight, including some shot in the flight deck, hence the exact registration.

bmc · Post by **bmc** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 12:21 am

Troubleshot wrote:
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The old man was a mountie, I used to fly with him all the time to nain, davis inlet, rigolet, etc from Goose Bay when I was a kid. Good memories.

I can never decide what looks better: Twin Otter with the playboy tires in the picture, or the tundra wheels.

Sleek looking 40 year old.

Siddley Hawker · Post by **Siddley Hawker** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 7:02 am

1st Norseman, 2nd Norseman and the 3rd ride a Bellanca Skyrocket.

bmc · Post by **bmc** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 7:16 am

Siddley Hawker wrote: Bellanca Skyrocket.

!!!

WOW

Now that's cool. Was that Hooker's?

Siddley Hawker · Post by **Siddley Hawker** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 9:21 am

No, the airplane was operated by Northern Wings at the time but I believe it may have been leased by them and owned by the guy who was flying it, Henri-Paul Boudeau. I remember the colour was yellow and green. It may have been a Pacemaker, I was 5 at the time.

HS-748 2A · Post by **HS-748 2A** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 12:53 pm

Of the classiest, (or antiquey-est), airplanes I've had rides in;
Travelair 6000 on Floats, http://www.airminded.net/ta6000/ta6000.html
Fokker Super Universal
Waco UIC
Staggerwing Beech
and Grumman Goose.
Those were all thrills I'll never forget.

Oh; DC-3 too, but that became near 'routeen' at one point.

*Skyrocket and Pacemaker; is the difference the powerplant only? I could never tell them upart, I don't think.

bmc · Post by **bmc** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 2:13 pm

HS-748 2A wrote:Of the classiest, (or antiquey-est), airplanes I've had rides in;

Fokker Super Universal
Waco UIC

*Skyrocket and Pacemaker; is the difference the powerplant only? I could never tell them upart, I don't think.

Friends with C.S. ? He's a close friend of mine.

HS-748 2A · Post by **HS-748 2A** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 2:18 pm

Sure am.

It wasn't his UIC though, but I can certainly see your deduction there. It was a sister ship, in a way.

Some loops in the Stampe are up next hope..

He's a great character.

bmc · Post by **bmc** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 3:05 pm

If it's a sister to C-GAVL, was it Bob's old machine in YEG?

I videoed the taxi tests at Indus with the Fokker when it accidentally lifted off and took flight for the first time in 50 years. I left Canada shortly thereafter.

He and H came to stay with us last year. Say hello from bmc. He know who I am. He has an gine mount off a Goose that my dad flew with the RCAF. The wreck sits up at Hardy. Planned to make a bar table with it. May have been lost in his garage fire.

Thread hi-jack over.

rigpiggy · Post by **rigpiggy** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 3:20 pm

PWA 737-200 yxd-yxy with stops in fort. nelson, and fort st john. 3 weeks old so im told

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