[Berkut76]

All Soviet cargo planes: An-12, An-24, and a couple of helos like Mi-8, and Ka-27.

Regards,

Sergey

[mapleflag]

RCAF and CAF
C47 Dakota, CC119 Boxcar,C5 North Star, Otter, Twin Otter, Caribou, Buffalo, Canso ,Argus CC109 Cosmo CC106 Yukon CC137 C130e T33, and Tutor
USAF
C130,C141 C9 VC137
US ARMY
Caribou
RAF
VC10 and Britannia
Rotary Wing
UH1D, CH47D Twin Huey and Jetranger
No loggable time but a lot of cockpit time and sore ass time on Hercs, Jeez I miss it!

[Louie]

C-9 Nightingale

[duxford]

Since I am so old, I have ridden on The Blueball Express, the Zephyr, Illinois Central to St. Louis, and a few Pensylvania RR steam engines in Chicago RR yards. That counts if this were a railroad forum, right?

But I have been in a DC-3, when it was a PBA flight, from Punta Gorda, Florida, to the northeast. That counts!

But the all-time excitement and heart-stopping pleasure was the $400 ride in Nine-O-Nine B-17 here in Fort Myers, the Collings Foundation plane. I want to ride in a Mustang, in Kissimee...someday....

[skysurfer808]

Only thing I've flown that ever served is the Beech 18, otherwise known as the Beech Bugsmasher...glorious hack a generation of deskbound pilots. Also have done aerobatics in a Mudry Cap-10, which is used by the French Air Force for aerobatics training. However, I have shared a runway traffic pattern with P-3s and Coast Guard C-130s, and have had to dodge Blackhawks, OH-58 Kiowa Warriors and even an SH-60 Seahwak in various flights around the isles. I've also had the pleasure to watch F-15s come and go into the Honolulu International Traffic pattern.

Still looking forward to a flight in a P-51 (hey there Mustangdriver) and other WW2 types.

Skysurfer808

[skysurfer808]

Only thing I've flown that ever served is the Beech 18, otherwise known as the Beech Bugsmasher...glorious hack a generation of deskbound pilots. I wont count a Cessna 172/T-41 as that's just too basic a machine, though the USN did buy Piper Aztecs for the light utility role. Also have done aerobatics in a Mudry Cap-10, which is used by the French Air Force for aerobatics training. However, I have shared a runway traffic pattern with P-3s and Coast Guard C-130s, and have had to dodge Blackhawks, OH-58 Kiowa Warriors and even an SH-60 Seahwak in various flights around the isles. I've also had the pleasure to watch F-15s come and go into the Honolulu International Traffic pattern.

Still looking forward to a flight in a P-51 (hey there Mustangdriver) and other WW2 types.

Skysurfer808

[SKUNKY]

Originally Posted by duxford

.....I have ridden on The Blueball Express,

Yep....been on that one a few times myself....

[Maple 01]

If you mean flown in rater than flown

Mi-8 Hip
DC-3
Gazelle
Chinook
Sea King
KC-135
Chipmunk
Bulldog
C-130

[Elmer]

When I was a kid in Civil Air Patrol (CAP) I got to fly several CAP Cessnas on training flights. I also flew with my uncle -- a Huey pilot for the Army Reserve -- on four separate Huey flights. I also flew in a KC-135 and laid in the boom while the boom operator refueled F-16s. That was way cool. Later in the flight I sat at a waist window and waved at an F-16 pilot fliying near the starboard wing; he waved back. I can still picture that in my mind as clearly as if it was yesterday (and it must have been 25 years ago).

[SKUNKY]

Originally Posted by Elmer

That was way cool. Later in the flight I sat at a waist window and waved at an F-16 pilot fliying near the starboard wing; he waved back. I can still picture that in my mind as clearly as if it was yesterday (and it must have been 25 years ago).

Hey,FVD!!.....,do you remember the day Elmer waved to you from the KC-135??