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Posted: 3/19/2018 1:27:10 AM EST
[#1]
I'd trade the noise for no TSA, passengers with decency/standards, and seats that aren't packed in like it's a cattle car.
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Posted: 3/19/2018 1:30:14 AM EST
[#2]
I don't remember them as being that bad. Oxygen kind of sucked, though. Those days were still alive and well through the 1990s in a lot of South America.
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Posted: 3/19/2018 1:30:29 AM EST
[#3]
Nope, but I used to be a Convair 580 driver
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Posted: 3/19/2018 1:33:55 AM EST
[#4]
Got to hop a ride once from Unalakleet to Anchorage on an Everts DC-6. As cool as that was I would've given my left nut to get a ride on their C-46.
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Posted: 3/19/2018 1:34:17 AM EST
[#5]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
I'd trade the noise for no TSA, passengers with decency/standards, and seats that aren't packed in like it's a cattle car. 
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Posted: 3/19/2018 1:41:23 AM EST
[#6]
I did back in the early 90s, it was a flight into Roswell New Mexico.
Cool plane, 4 turning, 4 burning, I loved its short takeoff/landing ability, but a lot of the people got overly excited. They nicknamed it the vomit comet, I thought it rocked! |
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Posted: 3/19/2018 1:49:07 AM EST
[#7]
Yep. Connie to Ireland. Had to stop there and go on to England because number three caught fire somewhere over the Atlantic. 1963-64?
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Posted: 3/19/2018 2:39:39 AM EST
[#8]
DC 3
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Posted: 3/19/2018 2:54:46 AM EST
[#9]
Yes, soon as I boarded a truck drove up and a guy got out and took a ladder out of the truck and dove down in the cowl for about 10 minutes. Then take off lol.
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Posted: 3/19/2018 2:54:49 AM EST
[#10]
I flew Mackey as a kid to the Bahamas.
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Posted: 3/19/2018 3:01:31 AM EST
[#11]
The only time I've ridden a piston-engined airliner was on 3/18/85, from Dallas to Lawton, OK when I went to basic training at Ft Sill.
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Posted: 3/19/2018 3:05:43 AM EST
[#12]
plenty, DC3s mostly
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Posted: 3/19/2018 3:08:46 AM EST
[#13]
My first ever flight was on a Constellation. Our takeoff was delayed because we had an engine fire. I was sitting over the wing in a window seat and was the first passenger to see the flames.
I was three years old. I think the Constellation is one of the most beautiful aircraft ever built.
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Posted: 3/19/2018 3:16:34 AM EST
[#14]
I flew Convair 240/340/440 and 580’s for about three years. Believe it or not in cruise I found the R2800’s quieter than the turboprops on the 580.
Fond memories, but I wouldn’t want to do it for a living again! |
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Posted: 3/19/2018 3:19:09 AM EST
[#15]
Twin Otter, and a C-130 over to Europe.
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Posted: 3/19/2018 3:26:55 AM EST
[#16]
Nope.
I'll add this to the thread though 
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Posted: 3/19/2018 3:32:28 AM EST
[#17]
I flew a lot in a DC 3 in my younger days, but never landed in one
 (Sport parachuting) |
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Posted: 3/19/2018 3:33:56 AM EST
[#18]
Yep, as a kid in 1977. DC-6 or 7, IIRC. My dad was so excited that he could barely contain himself. He was a crew chief on a C-130 in Vietnam.
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Posted: 3/19/2018 3:35:39 AM EST
[#19]
The first active military aircraft I ever flew in was a Canadian Air Force C-47 in 1986.
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Posted: 3/19/2018 3:54:40 AM EST
[#20]
Yes, a Twin Beech.
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Posted: 3/19/2018 3:57:56 AM EST
[#21]
I got to ride in a Ford Tri-Moror at an airshow once. I've rode several turboprops as well, and those are noisy inside.
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Posted: 3/19/2018 4:17:36 AM EST
[#22]
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I got to ride in a Ford Tri-Moror at an airshow once. I've rode several turboprops as well, and those are noisy inside. This is the plane: 
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Posted: 3/19/2018 7:05:52 AM EST
[#23]
I flew in a Ford Tri-Motor last year.
The drapes at the windows were a nice touch, and so was the leg room! |
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Posted: 3/19/2018 7:12:11 AM EST
[#24]
I was in a Marine Corps squadrons that had C-119 and C-131 aircraft. The C-119 would scare the shit out of National Guard units we would transport.
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Posted: 3/19/2018 7:15:57 AM EST
[#25]
Got to sit right and left seat on a C47 a couple of times. Sat in the back a bunch. Flown in an Antonov AN2 once.
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Posted: 3/19/2018 7:29:20 AM EST
[#26]
DC-3, Martin 4-0-4, Convair 440. Great memories.
Was a very young passenger on a Constellation. (Not piston, of course, but also memories of a few unusual ones like the Electra turboprop and the Bac One-Eleven jet.) |
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Posted: 3/19/2018 7:30:05 AM EST
[#27]
The accident rates on the old piston airline era.....
Full of cigarette smoke.. $$$$ relative for even simple flights No thanks. I do love the airplanes though. |
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Posted: 3/19/2018 7:32:02 AM EST
[#28]
I flew in a DC3 on a trip to Canada when I was a teen. Very noisy, flew on a turbo prop a few years ago on and island hop in French Polynesia.
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Posted: 3/19/2018 7:47:46 AM EST
[#29]
Yep,,,,1967 IIRC Dallas to Dayton Oh. and back. US BB gun championship sponsored by Daisy. Good times.
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Posted: 3/19/2018 7:49:46 AM EST
[#30]
I reckon jumping out of a C-7 Caribou and C-123 Provider counts - - - Yea, they shake alot and are loud as hell.
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Posted: 3/19/2018 7:50:23 AM EST
[#31]
Beechcraft 1900
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Posted: 3/19/2018 7:50:33 AM EST
[#32]
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Me too. Out of Valle Airport, AZ, near the Grand Canyon. It was awesome. This is the plane: https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2479/3672082996_d126115b04_b.jpg Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I got to ride in a Ford Tri-Moror at an airshow once. I've rode several turboprops as well, and those are noisy inside. This is the plane: https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2479/3672082996_d126115b04_b.jpg |
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Posted: 3/19/2018 7:51:18 AM EST
[#33]
Goose when I lived in AK.
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Posted: 3/19/2018 7:52:45 AM EST
[#34]
Yes.
My very first airplane ride was in a turboprop. Philadelphia to Washington DC, Jan., 1962, IIRC. To my father's burial at Arlington. He died on Christmas Day, 1961. |
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Posted: 3/19/2018 7:56:17 AM EST
[#35]
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Beechcraft 1900
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Posted: 3/19/2018 7:57:22 AM EST
[#36]
I wish, love those old birds...
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Posted: 3/19/2018 8:02:12 AM EST
[#37]
Piston does not mean prop.
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Posted: 3/19/2018 8:03:33 AM EST
[#38]
Long years ago we tokk a vacaton to the Bahamas.
There was supposed to be a connecting flight from Miami but this "IFY" airline didn't show up that day. So someone scrounged around and found a DC-3. Damn. Loud, smelly and the pilots flew with the windows open. My wife got airsick 
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Posted: 3/19/2018 8:04:43 AM EST
[#39]
Years ago, when ERA Aviation had their champagne DC-3 sight seeing flights out of Anchorage,
I booked a trip. Sadly we got weathered out. |
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Posted: 3/19/2018 8:10:07 AM EST
[#40]
Turbo DC-3? Yes sir.
Would fly 
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Posted: 3/19/2018 8:18:26 AM EST
[#41]
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Me too. Out of Valle Airport, AZ, near the Grand Canyon. It was awesome. This is the plane: https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2479/3672082996_d126115b04_b.jpg Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I got to ride in a Ford Tri-Moror at an airshow once. I've rode several turboprops as well, and those are noisy inside. This is the plane: https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2479/3672082996_d126115b04_b.jpg Port Clinton Ohio to Put-in-Bay, I was about 12 y/o. |
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Posted: 3/19/2018 8:20:59 AM EST
[#42]
My first flight was on a DC-3 from Atlanta to Albuquerque, stopped in Houston to refuel IIRC. Flew on several more DC-3's and a few Constellations.
Air travel was special back then. People dressed up to fly and were respectful to the flight attendants who were usually smoking hot, BTW. Every seat had a built in ash tray and enough leg room to stretch out. |
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Posted: 3/19/2018 8:24:26 AM EST
[#43]
I spent a significant amount of time being flow around as a passenger on a Avro/Hawker Siddeley HS 748.
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Posted: 3/19/2018 8:25:22 AM EST
[#44]
couple bush planes in Canada on a couple trips to fishing lodges. DC3 when I was 5 or 6 from Midway airport to southern Indiana, I think it was Evansville.
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Posted: 3/19/2018 8:26:10 AM EST
[#45]
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And Stewardesses like this. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tOJdzrNN6Xs/U6GjFIbjLBI/AAAAAAAArbs/hKfMHIBsWh0/s1600/Retro+Uniforms+of+Flight+Attendants+%284%29.jpg Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I'd trade the noise for no TSA, passengers with decency/standards, and seats that aren't packed in like it's a cattle car. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tOJdzrNN6Xs/U6GjFIbjLBI/AAAAAAAArbs/hKfMHIBsWh0/s1600/Retro+Uniforms+of+Flight+Attendants+%284%29.jpg
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Posted: 3/19/2018 8:28:58 AM EST
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Twin Otter, and a C-130 over to Europe. |
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Posted: 3/19/2018 8:31:41 AM EST
[#47]
I rode on "Fifi," one of two B-29s in flying condition. It was noisy, bumpy and one of the best days of my life. The view from the bombardier's position inside the glass nose was spectacular.
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Posted: 3/19/2018 8:44:39 AM EST
[#48]
In 1959 on the way to Okinawa and again in 1961 coming back from Okinawa.
I only have a few memories of the inside of the plane but the pictures dad took showed it was a Constellation. |
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Posted: 3/19/2018 8:56:29 AM EST
[#49]
Flew back to Texas and Oklahoma in the mid-50's so had to be piston, jets didn't start till the late 50's. Did later fly on an L-1011 (yes, I know it was a jet) which didn't last long in service.
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Posted: 3/19/2018 8:59:56 AM EST
[#50]
To Nantucket a few times back in the 70's.
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