What was your first ever flight??

[barrymcguire9999]

Never really looked much in this forum, and know nothing about aircraft (although know a 737/747 & Concorde and my house is right under Liverpool Airports flight path!) but just curious, what were your first ever flights??? mine? literally 2 months ago (at the grand old age of 31!) on my honeymoon, Liverpool to Nice by Easyjet 737 (G-EZJA out and G-EZJE return for those who follow such things), really enjoyed it, just a shame the clouds didn't clear until we were over the English Channel (the container ship 39000 feet below gave it away, fairly smooth flight although you can tell when your descending (or at least my stomach did!). The return was later on, blazing sunshine leaving Nice, got progressively dark as we headed to Liverpool and a little bumpy appraoching Liverpool (pilot had to climb again.........). Amazing seeing other aircraft below whilst at 39000 feet, all totally new to me.

Cheers

Barry

[Stooopidperson]

On a BA 747 from HK to London EXACTLY on my 2nd birthday!
Definitely don't remember it except from photos...

[Speedbird083]

I don't think being in my mum's tummy on Dan-Air 1-11's or Wardair 747-100's count so Lufthansa from Heathrow to Koln/Bonn.

[ianm42]

Dan Air Comet, Gatwick to Vienna, about 1972. Nice big round windows. Cost about 50 quid through Student Travel, which used up all the savings endowment my parents had taken out for me at birth which matured when I was 16. Exchange rate then was about 52 Austrian Schillings to the pound.

[166Driver]

737-200, British Airtours, 1987. Of course I was too young to remember.

[markw]

The first Dan Air Boeing 727 on the UK Register, G-BAEF, from Birmingham (Elmdon,as it was then) to Palma de Mallorca in 1976. I'd have preferred a Comet though.

Nice cottage pie and peas and carrots for breakfast though as we were delayed enough for an evening meal to become a morning breakfast.

[BobLatimer]

Across the Channel, Lydd (?) to Calais in about 1960 during a ferry strike. Can't remember the type of plane. (Can anyone help?) The nose opened up and cars drove inside. The cabin held about 15 passengers.

[markw]

Bristol Freighter or Superfreighter.

They were used by Silver City, then Channel Airbridge and later British (United) Air Ferries from Lydd to destinations in France, and later Belgium and Switzerland, from the late 1940's up until the early 70's, although by the 70's the Freighters (nicknamed Frighteners) had largely been replaced by the wierd Carvair, a DC4 with the cockpit stuck on the roof to allow cars to be hoisted in by a lift through a large front door onto a car deck.

Lydd was purpose built for Silver City after their previous airport, Lympne, which had a grass runway, was incapable of taking the increased ferry traffic in the route's heyday in the fifties.

[BobLatimer]

Thanks for that Mark.

[ArrivaTrains]

My *first* ever flight was from London Gatwick to Newark back on 13th November 2000.

The airline I used? Virgin Atlantic!!!

Highly appropriate don't you think?

Thanks

Lee


Providing Increased Frequency Intercity Services across the North

[philbozz]

Passenger flight - Spanair MD83 from BHX-Almeria

In command of acft - G-BRUM; Cessna 152 Coventry- Coventry training flight

[dwv1968]

Leeds/Bradford to Belfast City a couple of years ago ...

Very interesting first flight ... especially coming in to land at Belfast and almost skimming over the lough (my girlfriend forgot to mention that bit)

[Speedbird083]

I was forgetting about my short trip on a RN Westland Seaking which was fogged in on The Leas years ago. That was before my first foray on a commerical airliner.

[ca55ie]

Fokker 50; London City - Jersey...

Sam

[martinhodgson]

BA Manchester-Stockholm via Copenhagen. I assume it was a 737-200, but my parents are no use. I was 2 I think.