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Post by Airbus A346 on Apr 1, 2020 18:05:33 GMT 1
Spent an exciting afternoon sorting my cans of soup into alphabetical order, then spotted a little quiz on another forum.
I have put it under OTHER AVIATION RELATED TOPICS, it may exercise the brain cells, pass some time away, and it would be interesting to compare answers.
Have done mine for a starter, it may be easiest to copy and paste and remove my answers.
Your first flight: DHC-1 Chipmunk 10 AEF RAF Woodvale c1970 Air Training Corps air experience flight.
Your last flight: A320 Wizz Air LPL-BUD-LPL October 2019
Your shortest flight: BN-2A Islander Northern Executive Aviation, Barton Aerodrome (about 10 minutes).
Your longest flight: Boeing 747-200 Virgin Atlantic LHR-LAX-LHR
Your worst airline: Air France - water and croissant for breakfast, return flight cancelled, BA saved the day.
Your best airline: Lufthansa
Your worst airport: Warsaw-Modlin, followed by Kos (Greece)
Your best airport: Budapest
Your worst aircraft (flown in): Beech 1900 US Air Express SFO - Fresno claustrophobic - not easy climbing over the wing spar when you are 6' 2" tall.
Your best aircraft (flown in): Ilyushin IL-62 CSA LHR-PRG return flight was a Tu-154. Ilyushin IL-86 Aeroflot LHR-LED
Antonov An-24 LED-VKO had to load and unload our own luggage and the flightdeck crew disembarked first. Flew over Zhukovski on approach to VKO.
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Post by wadoki on Apr 1, 2020 18:57:30 GMT 1
What year did you go to Prague in a Classic?
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Post by ian531 on Apr 1, 2020 19:00:36 GMT 1
Your first flight: Handley Page Herald, Blackpool - Isle Of Man, early 1970’s
Your last flight: Brussels Airlines A319, Brussels- Manchester, October 2019
Your shortest flight: BN-2A Islander Scilly Airbus, Lands End - Scilly Isles
Your longest flight: Boeing 747-400 KLM, Amsterdam - Hong Kong
Your worst airline: American Airlines
Your best airline: BMI, business class to Las Vegas
Your worst airport: Naples
Your best airport: Frankfurt
Your worst aircraft (flown in): BA ATP, Southampton - Jersey
Your best aircraft (flown in): DHC-2 Beaver float plane
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Post by Airbus A346 on Apr 1, 2020 19:01:58 GMT 1
What year did you go to Prague in a Classic? It was an Alpha Mike trip not long after the "Velvet Revolution" in 1989, possibly 1990.
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Post by wadoki on Apr 1, 2020 19:06:39 GMT 1
The Velvet Revolution was late '89. Nailing two old sovs......I'm jealous!
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Post by Airbus A346 on Apr 1, 2020 19:08:28 GMT 1
Just Googled it suspect 1990.
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Post by kevmul on Apr 1, 2020 19:17:02 GMT 1
Your first flight: Think it was a Fox Moth from Southport (Ainsdale) beach c.1973
Your last flight: B744 BA LHR-MIA-LHR
Your shortest flight: The Fox Moth mentioned above
Your longest flight: BA Boeing 747-400 LHR-SIN-LHR
Your worst airline: Ryanair
Your best airline: Qatar
Your worst airport: Preveza (Greece)
Your best airport: Singapore Changi
Your worst aircraft (flown in): United B747 LHR-SFO
Your best aircraft (flown in): Qatar B787 Dreamliner (fortunate to secure a mistake fare, flew Business Class Manchester - Doha - Chiang Mai)
Kev
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Post by viscount on Apr 1, 2020 22:09:00 GMT 1
Your first flight: Aer Lingus, Fokker Friendship EI-AKG Liverpool-Dublin 16/08/61 (could also qualify as a worst flight, thrown around through an Irish Sea storm). Your most recent flight: Ryanair Boeing 737-800, Edinburgh to Malaga, 15/10/19. Your shortest flight: A tethered Hot Air Balloon G-BHAT May 1982 in suddenly marginal conditions, 2 minutes (if that). My shortest point-to-point flight: Air Corbiere Metroliner G-BUKA Jersey to Guernsey at 09 minutes 19.08.93 Your longest flight sector: VIASA DC-10-30 Frankfurt-Caracas,Venzuela 23.07.89 at 9 hours, 21 minutes. The whole trip routed LPL-LHR-FRA-CCS-LIM (Lima, Peru) and took 14 hours in the air and over 24 hours elapsed time. Your worst airline: Sun d'Or, Tel Aviv to Manchester, as they sent my luggage to Heathrow! Boeing 707 in 1981. My worst flight: African Safaris Bristol Britannia (1971), Benghazi to Nairobi across the Sahara by day, kept low by a whistling pressurisation leak, thumped around by thermals. Or there is always THAT FoLA Aer Lingus Fokker 50 expedition through the Lake District on Grand National Day 1993! Your best airline: Virgin Atlantic (in 2011) Gatwick-Dubai with an upgrade. Your worst airport: No such thing, all airports are exciting places. My most obscure Airfields flown to/from: Perm one from: Sondrestrom Fjord, Greenland (B.707); Heimany, Hofn-i-Hornafjordur (F-27s), Isafjordur (Navajo) and Egilsstadir (DHC-6) all in Iceland; Aswan & Abu Simbal (B.737) Egypt; Nazca (C.172), Arequipa, Juliaca, Cuzco, Puerto Maladonado (DC-8-51) all Peru; Cuidad Bolivar & Canaima (B.727) Venezuela; Ponta Delgada, Terceira, Sao Jorge & Horta (B.737 or BAe.ATP) Azores; Ercan (B.727) North Cyprus. Your best airport: Heimany, Vestmannaejar Island, Iceland. Rolled volcanic ash runway, a Land Rover as combined terminal and air traffic control. Flugfelag Islands Fokker Friendship (1977). Handed luggage to the pilot at the front door, showed the ticket to the hostess at the rear door. The way air travel should be! Your worst aircraft (flown in): Dan Air BAC.111-200 (1990), interior cabin roof panelling partly fell down in turbulence. Your best aircraft (flown in): Perm one from Sandringham, Ford Tri-Motor, DH.84 Dragon, Mil-8, An-2, DH Dove, Twin Pioneer and naturally Concorde. My greatest regret: Not having enough cash at an IAT for a trip on an East German Il-18 (they could not take credit cards). OK I've not played the game properly and inserted a few ideas of my own. With 566 sectors flown on some 80 different types, 93 different operators on aircraft registered in 31 nations, to or from airfields in 38 countries and around 700 hours as a passenger, there is plenty of choice. Some related images are still displayed on a 'blog' post: derbosoft.proboards.com/thread/27286/memorable-flights-boeing-viscounts-sandringham
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Post by jetdragon on Apr 1, 2020 22:43:35 GMT 1
Your first flight: BA Viscount - LPL - IOM 1974 for the TT races Your last flight: Bellanca Citabria Aerobatic flight VH-WHN Your shortest flight: B.206 Jetranger G-BAKS - about 2 mins joyflight at 1982 BAe Family Day - Hawarden Your longest flight: Boeing 747-100 G-BBPU BA LHR - Athens - Damascus - Bahrain - Kuala Lumpur - Singapore - Sydney Your worst airline: Monarch (battered old B.720 G-AZFB Luton - Gran Canaria) Your best airline: BA - Super Shuttle brand new B.757 G-BIKM Man - LHR - even got a cockpit visit (those were the days!). Ansett was a good airline too - great hosties Your worst airport: Seeb (Oman) back in the 70's Your best airport: Singapore Changi Your worst aircraft (flown in): Boeing 720 (see worst airline above) Your best aircraft (flown in): B.Ae 125-800 G-UWWB - I was lucky enough to fly in many other 125's - a great little jet.
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Post by northbynorthwest on Apr 2, 2020 0:39:14 GMT 1
Your first flight: Aer Lingus F27 LPL-DUB EI-AKA Maybe a month prior to Viscount's trip in 1961, but same comments applied regarding ride and thunderstorms.
Your last flight: Delta MD90 Memphis - Atlanta Feb 15, 2020. Ended up as my last MD90 flight, as they are being retired tomorrow due to the pandemic. Your shortest flight: Robinson 22 for a quick 5-6 minute circuit in 1987. Your longest flight: Delta 777-200LR Los Angeles - Sydney, August 2019.
Your worst airline: TWA Heathrow -JFK 1989. Chaotic - moved me from one flight to another without notice. Stuck in the back of 747 in the smoking section with my 9 month old. Your best airline: Delta - ok, I am biased. But they have rarely disappointed. Invariably good service and food.
Your worst airport: Manila Terminal 0ne. Rumor has it that it has been improved. Far worse than Delhi and Mumbai in the mid 90's by far. Even worse than Atlanta.
Your best airport: Detroit - the best airport I know for connections to/from International flights. Roomy and airey inside. Singapore is very good too.
Your worst aircraft (flown in): Has to be the CRJ200. Hands down. Cramped, you get a pain in the neck as you contort trying to look out of the window. Your best aircraft (flown in): Ford Trimotor for nostalgia. DC10 - got to ride the cockpit jump seat numerous times. Right next to a huge window - best seat in the house!
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Post by Airbus A346 on Apr 2, 2020 1:06:14 GMT 1
Thanks guys, good responses and some interesting answers to say the least. Keep them coming.
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Post by markmai on Apr 2, 2020 9:26:25 GMT 1
Your first flight: Dan Air Boeing 727 - Gatwick to Venice. Diverted to Treviso due to a strike in Venice. 1980.
Your last flight: Ryanair from Bergamo to Manchester. Oct 2019
Your shortest flight: American Eagle Jetstream from Orange county to LAX.
Your longest flight: American 767 from LHR to LAX
Your worst airline: Excel Airways. From Kos to LGW via MAN. No room, food awful and service pretty non existent
Your best airline: Reno Air. Very friendly and personal
Your worst airport: Dinard in France. Just a cattle shed.
Your best airport: Love Miami.
Your worst aircraft (flown in): Jetstream. So small and bounced around a lot
Your best aircraft (flown in): Always loved flying on a DC10
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Post by bulldog on Apr 2, 2020 11:20:05 GMT 1
Your first flight: G-AWSY Britannia Boeing 737 200 Luton-Munich
Your Last Flight : Virgin Atlantic A330-200 Orlando-Manchester
Shortest flight : Air Florida 727 Miami-Nassau
Longest Flight : Air Transat A330-200 Manchester Vancouver
Worst Airline : Air Sinai F 27 Cairo-Luxor. Scary, pitch black ground, in days when people smoked on a/c. So full of locals all smoking. Food Ugh.
Best Airline : Emirates A380 Business Class Manchester-Dubai. Didn't want to get off!
Worst Airport : Paphos, Cyprus. Hot Overcrowded and no view.
Worst Aircraft flown in : Air Sinai F27 (see above)
Best Aircraft flown in: Like Brian a few choices, Varsity when in UAS, Emirates A380. But almost certainly Concorde.
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Post by nstevo on Apr 2, 2020 12:49:47 GMT 1
Your first flight: Elizabethan Ambassador Blackpool to Newcastle 1964
Your last flight: Virgin A330 - Atlanta to Manchester Feb 2020
Your shortest flight: PA 28 Flight Experience for my 40th Birthday from Mancheter
Your longest flight: Boeing 747 Air New Zealand - LHR-LAX-AKL
Your worst airline: American Airlines - Hostess like Rosa Klebb from Bond movies
Your best airline: Virgin - Superb service on recent flight to Orlando
Your worst airport: Old Athens - Temperature over 100F and air conditioning had failed
Your best airport: Zurich- Shorttime transfers are a breeze.
Your worst aircraft (flown in): L1011 Tristar - Worldways to Canada
Your best aircraft (flown in): Boeing 707 of Middle East Airlines on lease to ? Novair at Manchester.
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Post by Airbus A346 on Apr 2, 2020 14:29:26 GMT 1
Viscount / Brian I agree with you regarding your biggest regret, the Interflug IL-18 flights at Fairford were probably a last opportunity to fly on a IL-18.
Like you I only had bank cards, and limited cash, also no ATMs on site. I was like bear with a sore head.
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