Weirdest aircraft you've flown in?
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Not weird but not everyday either, Super constellation was my favourite, but the Searmen biplane that I was able to freefall from while it was inverted was probably the weirdest for me, But I can't leave out the Casa and Shorts Skyvan tailgaters and the Porter and........ah so many favourites.
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Many years ago (1960's) flew in a DC-3 and it was a great way to lose weight. It doesn't scare the crap out of you, as such, it shakes it out of you when the engines get going for take off.
Not so weird. It was the first a/c I ever had a ride in. Got to fly from Melbourne to Toowoomba in an RAAF one in 1979 that had been fitted out for the Queen years earlier.
Nothing miltary here. I thought a Shorts 360 I flew in could easily have passed for a 'caravan with wings'.
Glacier landing in a Pilatus (Porter, perhaps?) was nice.
And, though not precisely the topic at the hand, I was going to link to something I flew on (twice) rather than in, but sadly found the fly-by-wire in Queenstown ceased operations a couple of months ago. Was a lot of fun. I did find this picture of it though (if I'm in breach of copyright or AFF T&Cs pls remove the link)
Thom..... never got to do the inverted biplane (envy you for that one!) ... or the balloon... but I did jump the CASA, Transall, C130 (and the stretched one) and.... the C 141...
So... not "weird" as such"... but bloody good fun!
Guy from the pistol club here flies a Trike... REALLY don't like the idea if those!!!
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Re: Weirdest aircraft you've flown in?
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Originally Posted by Thom
Not weird but not everyday either, Super constellation was my favourite, but the Searmen biplane that I was able to freefall from while it was inverted was probably the weirdest for me, But I can't leave out the Casa and Shorts Skyvan tailgaters and the Porter and........ah so many favourites.
I'm the same.. maybe not weird, but more uncommon if anything..
Nomad - plenty of take off's but never landed in one ever.
Twin Otter DHC-6 - only flown in them 4 times where i landed in it.. Going from Suva to Taveuni in Fiji.
Metroliner 23 - On the Torch Relay in 2000. man that was fun sitting in the back row watching through to the cockpit and seeing it sway on finals. and it was self serve on the meals - and the drinks were in an esky which was strapped to the floor.
Piper Chieften - only ever jumped out of them too. They were a nasty plane to jump out of as the tail was so low. When i used to film jumpers i knocked my head once or twice if i wasn't hanging low enough outside the plane!
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I'm the same.. maybe not weird, but more uncommon if anything..
Nomad - plenty of take off's but never landed in one ever.
Twin Otter DHC-6 - only flown in them 4 times where i landed in it.. Going from Suva to Taveuni in Fiji.
Metroliner 23 - On the Torch Relay in 2000. man that was fun sitting in the back row watching through to the cockpit and seeing it sway on finals. and it was self serve on the meals - and the drinks were in an esky which was strapped to the floor.
Piper Chieften - only ever jumped out of them too. They were a nasty plane to jump out of as the tail was so low. When i used to film jumpers i knocked my head once or twice if i wasn't hanging low enough outside the plane!
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Re: Weirdest aircraft you've flown in?
I don't remember too much about it, but when i was a small kid, I flew in a Catalina that was based here in Perth just after the war (that's WW2!).
The thing that most sticks in my memory is that there were few if any seats and all the adults had to move the the front of the a/c for take-off and landing, presumably to keep the nose in the water.
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Re: Weirdest aircraft you've flown in?
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The thing that most sticks in my memory is that there were few if any seats and all the adults had to move the the front of the a/c for take-off and landing, presumably to keep the nose in the water.
Probably to keep inside the C of G envelope. we used to to it skydiving out of a cessna 182.. All used to lean forward on take off!
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