Bcoz From United States, joined Mar 2007, 227 posts, RR: 0 Posted (3 months 1 day 14 hours ago) and read 1105 times:
Tonight, I was watching Chuck Heston's 1972 film "Skyjacked" and it got me thinking...
The aircraft featured in most of the exteriors is N374WA, what I assume to be a Western 707.
I was born in 1979 with my first flight around 1981 or 82. I've flown on an EI 747 and a Delta L-1011... and a host of other aircraft that are no longer in service.
But I never got to fly in a 707, and there is a chance...given my age...that I probably could have flown on one.
My question to you all is what aircraft type that you realistically had the chance to fly on, but never did...and why?
Andz From South Africa, joined Feb 2004, 6507 posts, RR: 8 Reply 1, posted (3 months 1 day 13 hours ago) and read 1092 times:
I think there is only one answer to this question: Concorde. I never did because I had no need to fly LHR-JFK and it was a bit expensive to do it just for fun.
ERJ135 From Australia, joined Nov 2000, 616 posts, RR: 1 Reply 2, posted (3 months 1 day 13 hours ago) and read 1090 times:
You will probably get a lot for the Concorde, myself included. However others that I missed by pure bad luck more than anything else include, Tristar, and Convair 880. I was lucky enough to fly a Convair 990. Add to those would be Russian airliners. When I did fly to the old USSR my flights were all on TU 154's and I so desperately wanted the TU134 at least once and the newer TU204. IL 62 and IL 86. Not out of the question yet but hopes are fading fast. Most others that I wanted to Fly on I have managed to do so.
ERJ135 From Australia, joined Nov 2000, 616 posts, RR: 1 Reply 6, posted (3 months 1 day 12 hours ago) and read 1086 times:
Quoting Af773atmsp (Reply 4): Intrepid Museum but they don't seem to be taking good care of it)
In 2000 I went to NYC for the first time and the Intrepid was a must see on my agenda. Like you say it's kind of disturbing they don't seem to be taking care of any aircraft at all, although when I went, the concorde was not there yet.
WILCO737 From Germany, joined Jun 2004, 4160 posts, RR: 68 Reply 8, posted (3 months 1 day 11 hours ago) and read 1079 times:
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Quoting Elite (Reply 7): Don't get to go to Europe often and even when I'm there I don't take domestic flights. Sucks, really.
That sucks indeed. And the MD11 of KL is often in Asia. So you should take a trip to HEL with the MD11 and then fly to THR and there you can take the 707 flight and then head to Bangladesh with their DC10
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Elite From United States, joined Jun 2006, 1412 posts, RR: 3 Reply 11, posted (3 months 1 day 9 hours ago) and read 1062 times:
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Quoting WILCO737 (Reply 8): That sucks indeed. And the MD11 of KL is often in Asia. So you should take a trip to HEL with the MD11 and then fly to THR and there you can take the 707 flight and then head to Bangladesh with their DC10Â
Leskova From Germany, joined Oct 2003, 5956 posts, RR: 73 Reply 12, posted (3 months 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 1039 times:
I guess Concorde, the DC8 and DC10 will probably remain on my wish-list for ever, as will the TU134, TU154 and IL86.
Fortunately, I've been lucky enough to get the B707, B727 and the MD11 onto my "have flown on" list while they were still available (not that it's impossible to get onto an MD11 these days, but it used to be easier).
NWADC9 From United States, joined May 2004, 3793 posts, RR: 9 Reply 13, posted (3 months 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 1028 times:
L1011
DC-8 (unless I fly boxes around as a career)
Anything Russian (no need to go to Russia and unwilling to go to a communist nation)
DC-9-20 (unless I wanna go skydiving)
737-100
Concorde (like I had money...)
MD-11
Shorts 330/360
Metro III
I can go on and on...
Long live Northwest's DC-9's!!!!!! Signed, N994Z, N401EA, N606NW, N756NW, and other DC-9's acting like a complete idiot
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