Have you ever flown in any rare or special aircraft?

[nwa757]

Hi. I was wondering if any member has flown in any rare aircraft. For instance, if you flew in the last DC-10 ever built, that would be considered flying in a special aircraft; or if you flew in a home built aircraft, that would be considered flying in a rare aircraft.

Thanks,
Trev

[Comet]

Isn't there a topic like this on the General Aviation forum? I'm sure I saw one a few days ago

[MD-11er]

The ever last built B743 is that good enough?
Because I flew it about 50 times

OO-SGD last B743 ever built.



Special colors I flew already 2 :

- The eircell of Ryanair CRL to STD
- ANA Pokemon to NRT from LHR

and missed one for one year I flew on the B744 of LH in 1999 from LAX to FRA the very same that received the special stickers of Hannover one year later.

[Avro]

I also flew OO-SGD.

It was on the 14th of July 1999 between BRU-CVG. I even had the chance to visit the flightdeck over the atlantic

It was a flight which I will never forget !!!!

Chris

[L-1011]

I had a chance to fly on OO-SGD too, several years ago

And then last year I flew on F-BUAD A300-B2-1C c/n 002, in its ZERO-G livery, and made 36 parabolas inside It's the oldest flying Airbus in the world.


ciao,
TriStar

[Avro]

I don't now if that counts but I was inside OO-DLL before it was attacked by a missile in Iraq last year.

I had a chance to fly on OO-SGD too, several years ago

Yeah on the same flight as I was

Chris

[flyingcow]

Hi. I was wondering if any member has flown in any rare aircraft. For instance, if you flew in the last DC-10 ever built, that would be considered flying in a special aircraft; or if you flew in a home built aircraft, that would be considered flying in a rare aircraft.

Thanks,
Trev

Well, I dont know if this counts but I own 2 airplanes a Cessna 182 Wren460 conversion and a Zenair 701 homebuilt airplane. Te wren 460 is an extremely rare super stol airplane capable of flying very very slow and landing in less than 100 meters. The Zenair is a homebuilt airplane that is for 2 people and lands in less than 20 meters ( yes, that short). I take off in less than 10 meters!. I post in the very near future some pictures of them so you will know why my name is flyingcow...you will love to see them. I dont have a digital camera but I am giving one to my wife the 25 th of august(birthday) and then I will take the pictures. Bye!

[Air_Lac]

Hi,

Some of my rare/strange aircraft were:
- MS760 'Paris'
- DH 82 A 'Tiger Moth'
- Junkers Ju-52
- Douglas DC-4
- Mitsubishi MU-2B 'Marquise'
- Skyship 600
- Bücker Jungmann
and I hope to have many, many more

Air_Lac

[sn26567]

I was also on OO-SGD

Also in a Belgian military Alouette-II in the co-pilot seat during an exercise.

And my first Sabena flight in a Sikorsky S58 helicopter between Liège City (Palais des Congrès) and Brussels City (Allée Verte)....

[-Falcon-]

I don't know if this counts, it's not really an airline,...
A couple of years ago, i flew along with a formation flight of 2 DeHaviland Devon's of the RAF. This was at the fly-in at Keiheuvel (Balen) Belgium.
I don't think there's a lot of Devon's left these days.
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/587423/L/

[potkuri]

Few oldies:
Spantax CV990
Finnair CV440
Airveteran DC-3

Few freigters:
DHL CV580
Fred Olsen Lockheed Electra

Few Russian built:
Cubana AN-26
Malev Tu-134

One in memorial:
Luxair Fokker 50 LX-LGB (total loss 11.6.2002)

I would still be happy to jump on any of these today !

[heathrow]

Ive gone on the last Royal flight ever, though I was young and don't remember anything about it. I flew British Airways 747-400 Wunala tail. I also did Qantas 747-300 Nalanji dreaming.

[an-148]

Flew UTVA-75 in Skopje(MK) Stenkovec in 1995.
Thanks to instructor Dumitar Sekulov for type-rating.

[twan01]

As a member of the Commemorative Air Force - B-24/ B-29 Squadron, I'm part of the crew of the world's only flying B-29 Superfortress "FiFi" and the B-24 Liberator "Diamond Lil" from which only two are still flying

Beside those two, I also flew in about 100 different jets, helicopters, warbirds and old timers.

[Advisor]

Lockheed L1011-500 TriStar of AirIndia. Regn # V2-LEK. (Now not with AI)

BOM-CDG in August 1995.

It was my first in a lockheed and probably the first one which AirIndia had leased from Caribjet along with another L.1011/500

[Advisor]

Also had the chance to travel to London in the short lived livery of AirIndia's SUN LOGO. he plane, a 747-200, VT-EBN.

[sean1982]

I flew the rare ones from the ryanair fleet:

* EI-CJE: jaguar one
* EI-CJD: EIRCELL one
* EI-CNY: the kilkenny one
* EI-DCL: the 7e7 boeing livery

By the way I was in stansted this morning and I saw the EI-CSA (wich is the oldest of the -800 fleet) was painted in the new ryanair livery ..... maybe ryanair is going to paint his whole fleet in the same livery ???

[eskyguide]

Well, I flew in SA's Boeing 747-SP and on CO's last MD-82 flight; do those count?

Kerwin.

[SN30952]

Well, I flew in SA's Boeing 747-SP ... Kerwin.

Me too, but why is that a rare or special aircraft, Kerwin?
Actually I then did not experience any 'special performance', and what then was a 'sp' seems to be a daily routine now.

Did I tell I flew on the last Super Caravelle out of Laos, Vientiane, during the Vietname war. Not a special or rare aircraft at that time, but a special flight indeed.

[rotor]

Special ??

Helicopters ofcourse
The ultimate flying machines