First Warbird Flight???????

[mennie]

Yak-52, and if that is not a warbird it was a B-25.

[Robbie Stuart]

CAF SNJ-4, N224X, South Louisiana 1979????
Robbie

[RickH]

N2S
PT-21
A-26, 44-35696
O-2
T-28C
T-6
B-25
B-17
DC-3
PT-19
B-17
F-4D

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[CorsairFreak]

PBY-5A

[chico]

1st flight B-17G Yankee Lady. 2nd flight B-17G Yankee Lady. 3rd flight B-17G Yankee Lady in exactly 7 days as I head to the Wisconsin Airfest.

What I'd Like to fly in? Prolly a Liberator or Privateer. The Privateers I've seen have some huge observation windows, especially that giant blister in the tail.

And of couse, there's always a Mustang flight to dream of. I day dreamed about the "Old Crow" but since Roush sold her, i guess that wont happen

[Jack Cook]

When we were at NAS Whiting in 1976, my step-dad took me up in the Flying Club's just received T-34 Mentor still with all the VT-1 markings.
Since then I've been in B-17, B-24, B-25 (200 hours), A-26, TBM, C-47, T-28 (50 hours), T-6 (250 hours), P-51, CJ-6, PT-13/17 (250 hours), NP-1, Pt-22, Tri-Motor, D-17, L-4, L-5, N3N yada yada yada. All fun and great memories.

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[Elwyn]

C-124

[Swiss Mustangs]

a little green with envy when reading your list Jack

my first one was Ju-52/3m in 1984 - followed soon by a PBY of Avalon Aviation in 1985

can's see those types on your list, though

Martin

[AirJimL2]

First Flight: PT-23 at the Geneseo show one year...late 80s I guess

The one I'd like someday: TBM

Jim

[PeterA]

If you do not count a Prentice or a Tiger moth - trainers, then July 1969.

It was £20 to help with the fuel! I note 30 mins in my log.

PeterA


Last one was the A-37. Over 130 years in the cockpit.

[PJ]

Collings Foundation B-24 and B-17, back to back in the same day and YAK 52. The waist windows are great in the 24, but the B-17 nose is the best seat in the house!!
PJ

[ww2John]

1st flight - Oshkosh 1998 T-6 - Very Early one morning, while volunteering on the Warbird Line Crew (which I still do every summer), a thoughtful and kind pilot placed line crew volunteers in the back seats of four T-6's going up for some formation flying practice. Great pilots and a picture perfect summer day - blue skies and small puffy clouds, smooth air, great formation flying.

2nd flight - B17 - just a few years later in EAA's Aluminum Overcast flying out of New Bedford, MA on a clear and crisp autumn day...first flight of the morning, down the coast to Newport, RI & back.

3rd flight - L17 - over Naraganset Bay, RI in a Navion on a clear spring day.

What I would like to fly in? Almost anything, anytime, anywhere I can get to...but I hope one day to ride in FiFi.

If a "fantasy" counts, maybe a B36 just to feel flight in something that big and that noisy.

Or...perhaps the Vickers Vimy? Kinda big...kinda slow...kinda noisy...and in the front (gunners) cockpit, of course.

[T J Johansen]

Convair CV-440 (T-29) Mai 1985.

T J

[O.P.]

T-34, Barbers Point Flying club 1983. A friend on the boat was a pilot and we'd take that plane out every chance we could get. I probably sat in the backseat for 20-30 hours.

We were coming around diamond head one day and all of the radio and transponder gear went out. He was going to try to fix it, so he said "You see Barbers Point? Fly to it." So, While he was working I pointed the plane towards Barbers Point and promptly flew through the Honolulu TCA at about a thousand feet, no radio, no transponder, nothing. It was pretty cool looking over to the right and seeing the 747's landing. When he looked up a couple of minutes later, he just about had a heart attack. He was yelling incoherently and rapidly took the plane out of there. We got back to barbers, waved the wings at the tower, turned and landed in front of a C-130.

Thinking about it now a zillion years later, I was darn near on downwind for Honolulu international.
That was my very first lesson about "Airspaces".

[NathanT24]

SBD-5 Dauntless at Airsho 2004, THAT was a fun flight.