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What is the weirdest airplane you've flown

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Mine was a Flying Boxcar of the Belgian airforce . It was my first flight ever in the late 1960 s . Very noisy , very uncomfortable seats , a few little windows , but it was unforgettable and we enjoyed it .I was a young aircadet at the time and we had the opportunity to fly with.
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Nice topic that you opened, galaxy.

I had a similar experience, but with a Belgian Air Force Alouette II helicopter. I was acting as an artillery observer over the training field of Suippe in France, a former battle field of WWI.

The pilot wanted to show his skills and he flew in the same way as the helicopters of the movie "Apocalypse now". I did the flight twice, and during the first one I was almost sick, but the second one was very exciting as I felt much better.
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Also C-119, DC-3 'weird' because it's a tailwheel airliner & SeaKing (twice), completing the series of the very noise, shaky ones, and Zeppelin NT as the very smooth one and you can stick your head outside :-)
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And looking back, this was maybe the weirdest ... @SteyningBowl late seventies
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I lived in Zaire from 88 till 2001 and I took some nice planes.
DC3, DC4, VISCOUNT and Noratlas.
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Hi,

Two planes to notice : a junkers 52 ( three props ) and a small Boeing , the Stearman !

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It must be this one: A Cessna A185E Skywagon Seaplane that I flew from the lake in Inari to the river in Ivalo...

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DC-3 Dakota ANR-ANR. Magnificent aircraft!

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Probably a TU104 a loooong time ago. As Coluche would have said, the engines were quite audible!

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convair wrote: 12 Apr 2017, 13:26 Probably a TU104 a loooong time ago. As Coluche would have said, the engines were quite audible!
Wow, what airline?
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quixoticguide wrote: 12 Apr 2017, 13:36
convair wrote: 12 Apr 2017, 13:26 Probably a TU104 a loooong time ago. As Coluche would have said, the engines were quite audible!
Wow, what airline?
Aeroflot

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quixoticguide wrote: 12 Apr 2017, 15:46 Image
My strangest flight
Eueueueueueu were you expelled or something?

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A Grumman G-21A Goose of Coastal Pacific Airlines round trip from Port Hardy ( Vancouver Island ) BC Canada in September 2009 with several water landings ( and take-off's of course ) and all this in a cockpit seat ! Apart from delivering urgent material to remote and by land unaccessible areas we dropped off a nurse and picked up an indian chief along the way ! An unforgettable and awesome experience !

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Stij wrote: 12 Apr 2017, 16:44
quixoticguide wrote: 12 Apr 2017, 15:46 Image
My strangest flight
Eueueueueueu were you expelled or something?

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Also weird was my flight with an AN74, from the Iranian republican guard ;)

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quixoticguide wrote: 13 Apr 2017, 11:32 Also weird was my flight with an AN74, from the Iranian republican guard ;)

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Nice one :-)
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lumumba wrote: 13 Apr 2017, 11:44
quixoticguide wrote: 13 Apr 2017, 11:32 Also weird was my flight with an AN74, from the Iranian republican guard ;)

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Nice one :-)
Yes and the boarding pass was from Pouya Air

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AN-2 in the 80's in the former Yugoslavia ..

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