August 1954 returning from Cyprus to Blackbushe in a Hermes. Next one was August 1962 in a DC-6 returning to Gatwick from Malta. Then had to wait until November 1969 before returning to Heathrow from Karachi (Diverted overnight into Paris due to fog) on a VC-10. Still recall that it was flight BA 203.
I'm just SLF.

A special welcome to "oldboacpilot" aged 92 (post 77 above). Is that a record?
Actually 2/6 each for 10 minutes for 4 people was quite expensive in 1926!
I wonder what aircraft it was, 3 seat in line biplane....

Laurence

PS mine was in Messenger G-AKKC from Peterborough Westwood in about 1951 (I did not keep a log then). Next was Anson VV965 at Thornaby August 1954. First real piloting in Tiger Moth G-ALTW at Cambridge on 31 July 1958 (for PPL courtesy of ATC)

A Britannia from Brize Norton to Akrotiri in 1966 when my dad was posted there. I remember at the age of four, trying my first olive in the in-flight catering and decicding that I liked them. Good job too, as olives were plentiful in Cyprus.


Later, as a QFI in the RAF, I was suprised at how many of my student's first flight was in a RAF Chipmunk at the commencement of their flying training. Deciding to be a pilot when you've never been airborne takes some gonads.

Airwork Vickers Viking G-AIXR. Flew from Blackbushe to Nairobi (Eastleigh) in early November 1952. Two night stops on the way: Malta and Khartoum. My Dad was ex RAF so we spent quite a bit of the time "up front". Unpressurised so not above 10,000 ft.

A flight I shall always remember.

G-AIXR with Tradair at the end of her career Air-Britain : G-AIXR If I was more IT savvy I would be able to show you an image of the a/c in Airwork livery.

Planemike

1st flight -in a Luscombe Silvaire
 

A professor from the then Howard College in Durban, South Africa, took me out to Stamford Hill Aerodrome ( now a sports-stadium) where he flew me around the circuit in a Luscombe Silvaire. Much later I flew the same Luscombe & still greatly enjoyed it.

Now +26000 hours later I can still recall what a pleasure it all was.
It's fair to state that the 1st flight in any aircraft, can often be a pleasure!
:)

First ever flight, rear seat in a Meteor 7 ,West Raynham 1950 on a test flight with Fighter Interception Development Squadron:):):)

1953 - Eight hour patrol over the western approaches in a Sunderland during a CCF summer camp at RAF Pembroke Dock. Caught the flying bug and joined up two years later. Got over the bug after forty years of military and commercial flying.

Super VC10 G-ASGL LGW-LGW (with an overshoot at BRS for some reason), a charter to mark the end of commercial service with BA.

Chipmunk AEF RAF Finningley 1983 as a member of 148 Sqn ATC.

Pilot asked me if I had previously flown aeros in AEF.
Sorry to say I told a porky :O

Thank you sir for the full sequence :ok:



Have been in love with aeros ever since and have flown competitively. Sometimes I've even come first !

K

Define 1st flight?
 

Choose from:

1m 30 secs Anson circa 196O RAF Kinloss. First flight as an ATC cadet Me,'I wonder why we're backtracking down the length of the runway?' Soon found out why. Mighty Cheeta's roar, Annie waffles off down runway lumbers into air. Small bang, black smoke. Port eng stops. Quick forward dab on the yoke and we thump back onto runway. That's when I learned the first rule of airmanship. A runway behind you is useless!

3 weeks later:

15 seconds Sedbergh T21 Cable break on launch.

I did eventually get airborne without anymore traumas:sad:

First Flight was in Tiger Moth G-ACDC December 1959, Redhill Aerodrome to Buckingham Palace and return. Remember thinking I felt so ill I might not fly again!!

First Solo Tiger moth G-APMX, 1964.

First flight in an Airliner, London to Bahrain BOAC VC10 May 1967.

Tony M

First time I actually flew a plane myself:
Cessna 172
G-BULH
Blackpool Airport
2004

First time I actually flew on an Airliner:
A Britannia 757 to somewhere I can't even remember.

Pleasure Flight - DH Heron of Moreton Air Services RAF 50th Anniversary Show RAF Abingdon June 1968.

Went on to be RN Pilot.

Morton Air Services DH Heron from Jersey to Southampton. I was about 12, and we were due to fly on the super-new BAC 1-11; however, as I remember, there was a pilot's strike at the time, and dad somehow managed to get us on this flight back home- I remember a few 'pickets' trying to block the departure, but the single-pilot captain (no uniform) fired up the Gipsy's and they soon scattered- magic!
(I've been hooked ever since)

In the early 50s, me and sis were taken along in a Bonanza from Shelby or Great Falls MT to Las Vegas where we were given a bunch of nickels or dimes to work the slots:E

There was also an airstrip along a casino that we stopped at.

We may have continued to Palm Springs or Los Angeles. I was 7 or 8 at the time; so, the details are not remembered.

I remember using a sick bag on approach to Great Falls as I also had to during my 300 km. in a glider early in the season when my tummy was out of training:\

The older Master RbF had his first flight when two and could get sick during the flare in crosswinds.

My first flight
 

As with previous post. Anson at RNAS FORD while in school ATC squadron in 1946 or 7. On a subsequent visit to FORD by cycle found a Lancaster of my brothers Squadron through the perimeter fence after a wheels up landing.
The was an MU at Barnham near Ford, where wrecked airframes were dumped, and formed an interesting place to visit.

Nov '57 G-APAU Sabena Bristol Frightener plus Standard Vanguard KNK351 Rochford-Middelkerke (Sahfend-Ostend).
Soon after Prentice G-APJB from Sahfend with a hairy old Polish pilot. I wonder how many future pilots were introduced to the wonder of flight via 'PJB! I believe that old Polish pleasure flight pilot was a bit of a legend...

I saw G-APAU and PAV in service with Midlands Air Cargo at Baginton in 1972 or 1973, near the end of their lives (they were both scrapped at Lasham in 1975). These were the only two Superfreighters I saw and now, sadly, there are none left. I didn't take pictures of them-something I very much regret now.

Mine was in this > http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g1...R-1955-02R.jpg from the beach at Cleethorpes, September 1957. Piloted by Capt. Jim Crampton, later founder of AirUK.

Cambrian Viscount 700 G-AMOO, Liverpool to IOM, aged 12.

Not a lot of interest before. Fascinated ever since.