Over 30s:
Im 42. My first flight was in 1969 on a Vickers Viscount
42. DC-8.
44, been on lots of old birds, DC-3, Viscount, DC-8, VC-10 are ones I can remember right now. Apparently as an infant I went accross the pond by Comet with BOAC.
51, A DC3 is the first I remember in about 64. We called in the Blue Goose that serviced our town in Minnesota. Live in Africa now and flew a reconditioned DC3 just a few months ago -- first built in 1942.
I'm 41 going on 42 (reluctantly) and my first flight was an Avianca 707 (300 I believe) back in 1969.
Great flight except for some horrendous turbulence over Panama.
By the way, I think the score between "old geezer playing" postings to "kids and teenager playing" postings is 4 to 223. :P
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There's a saying that you're only as old as you feel.
I wished I lived in the 60s :laugh:,,
I'd have loved to fly those old birdies... 707, 721/2, 731/2, 741/2/3, DC-8, DC-10, etc... but... I am 16, and have never ever solely flown in a prop plane... :P the smallest I sat in was an ERJ145 (Dulles-Newark with Continental Express) and biggest was 772ER (United Frankfurt-Dulles (Yes the same flight as the ERJ) )...
I am 45. Can not remember my first flight (senile dementia!!!), think it was prop Brittania Airways B737-200. :-[
36 years old young - it was a Tristar - and I loved this aircraft :D
Im 32 and my first was a charter Novair A332 in 2005 ... :laugh:
Quote from: lilius on June 24, 2010, 07:03:04 PM
my first was a charter Novair A332 in 2005 ... :laugh:
nice, and a bit late don't you think?!? ;D
Quote from: WesternU on June 23, 2010, 01:36:14 AM
By the way, I think the score between "old geezer playing" postings to "kids and teenager playing" postings is 4 to 223. :P
there's no competition at all!
yes there is but I'm just being polite.... ;D
Alitalia 747 in 1983 for me.
well i'm 20 and my first flight was in 2005 in a Brazilian Air Force EMB-120 ;D Not very comfortably, but, exciting! ::)
Im 42 and first flight was on a Tap 737-200 from Lisbon to Faro.
Quote from: ICEcold on June 24, 2010, 07:43:28 PM
nice, and a bit late don't you think?!? ;D
Yes definately a late bloomer here :laugh:
62-Flew from SFO to LAX in 1966 to interview with United Airlines on a 727. Round trip cost me $25.00
;D geezer... I´m 39, my first flight was with DC-9-10 HEL-KUO (summer 1971) when I was 9 months old. I don´t remember that, but my parents said that I pretty much liked it by trying to imitate the sounds of DC-9 engines. Every year I had 1-3 domestic flights with DC-9´s and Super Caravelle´s. First long hauler for me was DC-10-30 in 1977 at age of seven. I remember staring that huge wing from my window seat and had a little fear of flying feeling, but on take off roll I was "in heaven".
First flight was from Dallas-Love to El Paso on a Convair 600 in the spring of 1964. I was 12. Guess that make me old? :laugh:
considering my dad is 48, and he was born when you were 10 (i guess) that makes you 58. ;) you aren't that old. :)
Thanks!! You're right, not as old as some but older than most.... :)
My first flight was in the 1970s from Dayton, Ohio to Mexico City, continuing to Acapulco. I have no idea what it was, probably a 727-200 through DFW on AA. My first 707-320 flight was in South America to Asuncion Paraguay in the early 90s. Experienced a horrible landing on a DC-10 with LAP airlines. Piedmont 737-200s were my favorite when I was little.
Quote from: Catita Bill on June 24, 2010, 10:15:28 PM
well i'm 20 and my first flight was in 2005 in a Brazilian Air Force EMB-120 ;D Not very comfortably, but, exciting! ::)
youre not a geezer ;D
I'm 42 (almost 43). My first flight was Wardair 747 - Edmonton (YEG) to Toronto (YYZ) when I was about 16. I was travelling alone and they served complimentary Orange juice and champaign to ALL classes. That wasn't my first drink but it was my first champaign. I have since flown on just about every type of western post 80's aircraft (but not the A380). I also enjoyed getting hit by lightening while landing in Portland in a Q400.
GM
first flight was a ex-people express continental 722 dfw-ewr in 88. my dad took a pic of it. otherwise would have no idea.
29.... my first flight was on PanAm it was 747-100 series...from jfk -cdg. I was a few months old so I don't remeber it but I was told.
32 years old and live near KCLE.... We don't do any Long Rage flights.
I used to fly all the time as a child to see my grandparents near KFLL. From what I recall, they were all narrow bodies. Since that was the early 80s, I will bet my lunch that I was flying on 727s myself.
28 now... first flight was in February 1999, EDDP (Leipzig) to EDDL (Düsseldorf) on Lufthansa in a 737, on my way to a students exchange near KSFO (via KORD, those legs were flown on 767 and DC10)
well I'm (only :P) 23 but I remember flying on A300-600R to Athens from London and back all the time, alternating with 734's... for most of you those could be considered relatively 'new' planes but for me I still remember the A300-600R with nostalgia.. :) My flying these days is rather 'normal' flying easyjet, ryanair and due to being in Turkey, pegasus and therefore A32X's are the norm :)
I wish I could have flown on a 732, is there any noticeable difference from the cabin? noise, comfort etc..
Hi, I´m 36 and I remember my first flight when I was 15. It was a SCQ - STN flight. I cant remember the model, but I´m sure it was a Boeing.
In the last years I usually fly across Spain and other european contries working. I live in a small city in the north of Spain (León), so most of my flight adventures start with a 50 seats prop (or a CRJ if I´m lucky :)) in order to get MAD or BCN.
44 years old here.
My first flight was on BOAC, prior to BA, some will recall. Montreal to London, I think it was 1973, I was 7 years old and I remember that overnight flight like it was yesterday. It was just magic to me. I obviously couldnt sleep, just walking around and around talking to hostesses and even other passengers (yeah, I was one of those you just dreaded! but I never cried :laugh: ) The plane seemed real big
i wish I could remember the aircraft I was on, I think it was a 747, but maybe some of you may know better about BOACs fleet.
I'm 50 and feel like 30 and look nowhere near my real age (well I don't). First commercial flight was a seaplane from Long Beach to Catalina and back at the age of 7. Don't recall make or model but its seemed like about 14 pax or so.
First regular airline flight was A Delta L-1011, at age of 13/14 (first of many rides on Delta and Air Canada Tristars!)
Looks are intact, brains are going fast! ;D :laugh: ;)
Going on 42. First flight was in the early 70's on an Eastern Airlines 727 Whisperjet from Miami, Florida to Providence, Rhode Island. I remember shortly after takeoff the aircraft banked and (I think) the g's caused me to scream out "We're gonna crash!!"
I was raised in Miami. Everything was Eastern. The last flight I took with them was on a DC-9 while on leave from the Air Force. They folded a few short months later. I miss them still. :(
As a side note: my fiance and I flew back to Miami from my military station so she could meet my family for the first time. We flew there via Pan Am. The day before we were to fly back on Pan Am, they went out of business. I wish now I would have kept the ticket stub from that cancelled flight... :)
January the 10th, 1986. I flew in a beautiful 722adv of Aerolineas argentinas from SABE to SAWE....And I was 10 days old, and I don't remember that flight BTW. But I know that the boeing was shiny cause every summer we would travel to Buenos Aires ever since.
Hey, ICE what's you doin' in here?
you are 15.. get back to the teenie forum!
I am only 17 myself, but though have made it to fly a B732 (don't remember the actual year :P )
but somewhere between 2000 and 2002, since we still had to change DM into GBP... great flight... Ryanair btw...
the biggest one I ever flew with was earlier this year, B772ER FRA-IAD :) (United)
Jona L.
45 in two months :-[
First flight was a KLM 747, Gatwick to JFK in 1977. Can't count how many commercial flights since then. Since 1995 I've logged over 300 hours in single-engine Cessnas (Skyhawks and Skylanes) -- not my own, mind you :)
funny though... I work in the airline industry, and my girlfriend (who usually listens a lot about what I we discuss) said to everyone that she saw an Air France A380 in Miami...
funny when you know AF is not having any A380 to Miami, and that she mixed that with B747 because there was a second floor...
Dude, I feel bored... or boring to her, up to you guys !
38 here. And the first flight I can remember is a UA 732, somewhere around 1980.
Smallest plane I've ever flown is a USAirways Express Beech 1900D in 1999. Biggest was a UA DC-10 in 1982(ish).
I am 44 and used to fly from Africa to England back in the late sixties and early seventies with BOAC. I don't remember the type of planes but I still have the original flight book that the pilots would sign for us and some of the stainless steel silverware that we used to eat with.
Quote from: mbmaniax on August 20, 2010, 01:06:29 AM
I am 44 and used to fly from Africa to England back in the late sixties and early seventies with BOAC. I don't remember the type of planes but I still have the original flight book that the pilots would sign for us and some of the stainless steel silverware that we used to eat with.
Could have been a VC10, RAF still use those for tankers.
first flight wtih B733, second one was a Yak-42...
I'm 21 y/o. The first flight - the one I can remember at least - was a holiday charter BRU-ALC, I'm quite positive it was a 733 or 734. Think I was 4 or 5 y/o.
Haven't flown an A380 & MD-11 yet. I love KLM for still flying MD-11s... So somewhere before 2015 I shoud plan to visit Montreal or Vancouver. ;D
I'm 21yrs old .
My first flight was as a 3month old infant on the B737-200.
And I fly the A320 for the same operator now ..
im 5 and i fly da boeing 767-300 first, with qaaaantaas ;D
well technically that was my first flight. I am 17 now, not an old geezer, of course "its just a number", so i figured i should rub it in anyway.
hehehehehe
Peace ;D
40 - Olympic Airways Boeing 720 - VIE to SKG 1975... my mom told me .-)