My very first Flight.
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1. Auster 5 G-ALYD Fairoaks August 1963.
2. Beverley C.1 XL130/K/242OCU Thorney Island 10th October 1965.
3. Hastings C.1.A TG570/S/242OCU Thorney Island 18th September 1966.
Happy days.
Ciarain.
2. Beverley C.1 XL130/K/242OCU Thorney Island 10th October 1965.
3. Hastings C.1.A TG570/S/242OCU Thorney Island 18th September 1966.
Happy days.
Ciarain.
My first flight was in 1957.
Cosford 29th Boy Entrants course .
Air experience flight in an Anson, flight out round the Wrekin and back.
Thought it was fantastic, not so a mate of mine, I never knew it was possible to look green in the face until I saw him getting out of the Aircraft.
Other memorable flights.
1987
Pre-arranged "Free" flights with Aerochago Cargo Airline, Miami to San Juan via Santa Domingo (Dom.Rep.)
First leg
4am Flight out of Miami to Santa Domingo in Aerochago (Belize Air International?) up front in C-97 Stratofreighter HI-481.
Second leg, next day.
Santa Domingo to San Juan in Aerochago "Connie" L-749A HI-422. At the time I think the only Airworthy "Connie".
Bulkhead seat behind Flight deck, no Sound proofing in cargo hold!!.
Sights and sound of both flights amazing. (Got some fantastic in flight Photos.
on slides so will show them sometime when I buy a Scanner)
OPF
Cosford 29th Boy Entrants course .
Air experience flight in an Anson, flight out round the Wrekin and back.
Thought it was fantastic, not so a mate of mine, I never knew it was possible to look green in the face until I saw him getting out of the Aircraft.
Other memorable flights.
1987
Pre-arranged "Free" flights with Aerochago Cargo Airline, Miami to San Juan via Santa Domingo (Dom.Rep.)
First leg
4am Flight out of Miami to Santa Domingo in Aerochago (Belize Air International?) up front in C-97 Stratofreighter HI-481.
Second leg, next day.
Santa Domingo to San Juan in Aerochago "Connie" L-749A HI-422. At the time I think the only Airworthy "Connie".
Bulkhead seat behind Flight deck, no Sound proofing in cargo hold!!.
Sights and sound of both flights amazing. (Got some fantastic in flight Photos.
on slides so will show them sometime when I buy a Scanner)
OPF
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First flight was 1976,aged 13, east midlands to montpellier sth france on british midland viscount g-aznc,great views from the big old windows,and the first of many cockpit visits.
return flight was british airtours B707 g-apfd, which felt huge compared to the viscount,and as for the power on take off WOW.
return flight was british airtours B707 g-apfd, which felt huge compared to the viscount,and as for the power on take off WOW.
Colerne, August '56, Anson right hand seat. Followed over the next three years by as many Chipmunk, Piston Provost, Varsity, Valetta, Hastings, Beverley, Comet 4 and Lincoln hours as I could blag, as well as 20 launches and solo in a Cadet Mk 3 at Kirton Lindsey.
The next 50 years carried on in much the same vein, although mostly in gliders with a few hundred hours behind propellors.
The next 50 years carried on in much the same vein, although mostly in gliders with a few hundred hours behind propellors.
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Miles Messenger G-AHZS of Air Kruise, Ramsgate to Ramsgate around the Isle of Thanet, 4 August 1953 (aged 8). Fare 5/- (25 pence), an absolute fortune in those days, so much so my dad couldn't afford to come with me.
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A very tiny (future) ExAscoteer first flew on 1st August 1965 (I was just coming up 3 years old), strapped to my Dad's knee in a T21 Sedburgh, serial number XN148, at 423GS RAF Tangmere.
The flying pilot was Bill Verling.
The flying pilot was Bill Verling.
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Later, whilst in the WJAC, she flew in an Auster at Hurn piloted by no less than Diana Barnato-Walker ===================================
My wife and I flew with Diana and were with her in the Officer's Mess at RAF Middleton St. George when she decided that she would like to break the sound barrier. Several months later she did in a Lightning from Middy.
My wife was in the W.J.A.C, and later when it became the Girl's Venture Corps Air Cadets, for 42 years. I served on Committees and flew with Diana and Freydis Sharland (Leaf) Does Freydis still hold the womens records for flights which she set so many years ago?
My wife and I flew with Diana and were with her in the Officer's Mess at RAF Middleton St. George when she decided that she would like to break the sound barrier. Several months later she did in a Lightning from Middy.
My wife was in the W.J.A.C, and later when it became the Girl's Venture Corps Air Cadets, for 42 years. I served on Committees and flew with Diana and Freydis Sharland (Leaf) Does Freydis still hold the womens records for flights which she set so many years ago?
Ramsgate to Ramsgate around the Isle of Thanet
However, after looking at my PMs, I see you know that, since we corresponded about it and you concluded it was probably 'WK. The fare had gone up to 7/6d (37 1/2 p) and still a fortune for my Dad, who paid for three of us.
First glider flight - Air Scouts T21B at Lasham in 1963. Mine was the last flight of the day and we found a thermal at the top of the launch and went up to the dizzying height of 2200', followed by loops on the way down!
First jet flight - Vampire T11 at Shawbury, 1968.
I realized recently that I've flown or paxed in more DH types than any other manufacturer's.
Anson PH829 in 1958 from Renfrew upto top of Loch Lomond then down the length of the Loch skimming the surface and skipping over the islamds.
This summer did a similar trip in Loch Lomond Seaplanes Cessna 208 G-MDJE.
This time the pilot stayed at a respectable height.
If anyone is visiting Scotland next summer this is your chance to sample a take off from the Clyde just downriver from Glasgow city centre.
This summer did a similar trip in Loch Lomond Seaplanes Cessna 208 G-MDJE.
This time the pilot stayed at a respectable height.
If anyone is visiting Scotland next summer this is your chance to sample a take off from the Clyde just downriver from Glasgow city centre.
August 1962 I hitch hiked to Benson with another cadet and we got 2 hours in the circuit in an Argosy. I recorded the number in my 3822 as XP447 but I think this was wrong; it must have been '442. I actually only lasted 1.5 hours and having used 2 sick bags, they stopped and dropped me off.
My first 'real' flight (where I actually handled the controls) was a few weeks later when I flew in a Piston Provost from Little Rissington where we were at annual camp. This rather spoiled me as I never liked flying in Chipmunks after the luxury of the Provost.
My first 'real' flight (where I actually handled the controls) was a few weeks later when I flew in a Piston Provost from Little Rissington where we were at annual camp. This rather spoiled me as I never liked flying in Chipmunks after the luxury of the Provost.
Prentice VS331 at Ternhill in 1954 as a CCF cadet.Subsequent flights [ as a CCF cadet] in Piston Provosts and, from Shawbury, in Ansons and Lincoln.
It was the best part of my school days!
It was the best part of my school days!
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Late 1940's, ATC summer camp at Leuchars, Coastal command Lancaster to Kinloss and back.
Climbing over the "dustbin" my parachute pack got caught and some silk started to come out . Remember it well for all the wrong reasons.
Climbing over the "dustbin" my parachute pack got caught and some silk started to come out . Remember it well for all the wrong reasons.
Fokker Friendship belonging to Braathens SAFE in the summer of 1963. Newcastle to Sola for a school trip to Stavanger. Cause of a long-lasting schoolboy crush on the delightful Norwegian hosties.
Sometime in 1943/44, aged 2, in a DH Rapide of what, I think, was then Scottish Airways (pre-BEA), from Glasgow (Renfrew) up to Uist in the Hebrides. I have always claimed this as my earliest memory, including talk of 'air pockets' and my being sick!
Nothing after that until a BEA Vanguard flight Turnhouse to LHR in 1962, with the real business beginning at 1055 hrs on 14 January 1965 as Navex B1/B2 in a Valetta 'Flying Classroom' of No 2 ANS, RAF Hullavington. DCO; 50 minutes Day; Captain - Fg Off Robertson. (And I've just noticed that we went and repeated the same Famil exercises in a Varsity at 1205 hrs that same morning!)
Nothing after that until a BEA Vanguard flight Turnhouse to LHR in 1962, with the real business beginning at 1055 hrs on 14 January 1965 as Navex B1/B2 in a Valetta 'Flying Classroom' of No 2 ANS, RAF Hullavington. DCO; 50 minutes Day; Captain - Fg Off Robertson. (And I've just noticed that we went and repeated the same Famil exercises in a Varsity at 1205 hrs that same morning!)
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05th July 1974 and my parents and I were emigrating to sunny Zambia, A British Airways 1-11 from MAN-LHR then onto 9J-ABR, a Zambia Airways Boeing 707....aah, memories 