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From: Fairbanks Alaska
Flying
So what airplane do you fly most?
And what are some of the more memorable airplanes you have had the chance to fly in?
For me I mainly fly a Cherokee 180. Too bad the engine is high time. 2400hrs.
I have a soft spot for the old radial prop driven aircraft. DC-6's and my favorite the C-46. Kind of like a DC-3 but much better. Only like 11 of them still flying on the planet.
Nothing quite like the thundering sound of a radial engine.
And what are some of the more memorable airplanes you have had the chance to fly in?
For me I mainly fly a Cherokee 180. Too bad the engine is high time. 2400hrs.
I have a soft spot for the old radial prop driven aircraft. DC-6's and my favorite the C-46. Kind of like a DC-3 but much better. Only like 11 of them still flying on the planet.
Nothing quite like the thundering sound of a radial engine.
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From: Cloverdale, BC
I wish I could fly.
I used to be in Air Cadets. Went up in a Cessna 172. I wasn't quite impressed as I should have been, though. I wanted to go for a ride in a CF 18.
I'm guessing you aren't asking if we've been in commercial airliners. If you are, I couldn't even tell you what I've been in. I know I haven't yet been in a 747.
I used to be in Air Cadets. Went up in a Cessna 172. I wasn't quite impressed as I should have been, though. I wanted to go for a ride in a CF 18.
I'm guessing you aren't asking if we've been in commercial airliners. If you are, I couldn't even tell you what I've been in. I know I haven't yet been in a 747.
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Spent plenty of time in Cessna 172, 182, and 185's, but I must say the most unique plane I have flown is a Diamond DA20-C1 http://www.diamondair.com/default.htm Gotta love the Super Cub, Citabria or the Cessna 207 living in Alaska 
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Up until a few years ago, I had flown most all private and corporate aircraft, single and multi-engine, a couple of jets and rotor wings.
Being a flight instructor gets you lots of experience in lots of aircraft. I was chief pilot for a busy flight school, then a corporate pilot.
I've restored a few antique planes that provided lots of work and fun. I was signed off to take the A&P tests, but never did. Also, I have built and flown 3 home-built airplanes from scratch. Here is one of them...
Being a flight instructor gets you lots of experience in lots of aircraft. I was chief pilot for a busy flight school, then a corporate pilot.
I've restored a few antique planes that provided lots of work and fun. I was signed off to take the A&P tests, but never did. Also, I have built and flown 3 home-built airplanes from scratch. Here is one of them...
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From: iowa
i cant afford to fly real planes but i do fly RC. and i have flown everything i can build from steerman bipes to extra 300's my favorite to fly is my sukoi stunt plane. as for favorite plane i have flown in, it would be the cessena we skydive out of.
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From: Drummonds, TN USA
My Poppa got me hooked on "AEROPLANES" when I was a little guy. He used to fly a Taylorcraft, but it got a cracked spar one fine day while buzzing the tower at Renton Field in Washington state...
We flew that thing to Canada one year to go Salmon fishing, out over the puget Sound and North.
I got to fly it for maybe a few minutes, but Poppa snatched the controls back because he said I was trying to loop it! He was right - I was. (it seemed possible to me) I was ten years old at the time...
Poppa was an aircraft Engineer. He taught me to see things as clearly as I could in my head, and then see if I could draft them out on paper. When paper fails - the sketches don't tell the whole story - that's when you begin fabricating a working model...
I read plans like other kids read comic books, and reading about stuff is cool and all of that; but things don't really happen when sitting back and reading about them....
Things happen when you pick up a tool, even if it's a drafting pencil and a T-Square.
And that is when life is truly worth living.
PS (on edit): I'm currently a forty five year old kid...
We flew that thing to Canada one year to go Salmon fishing, out over the puget Sound and North.
I got to fly it for maybe a few minutes, but Poppa snatched the controls back because he said I was trying to loop it! He was right - I was. (it seemed possible to me) I was ten years old at the time...
Poppa was an aircraft Engineer. He taught me to see things as clearly as I could in my head, and then see if I could draft them out on paper. When paper fails - the sketches don't tell the whole story - that's when you begin fabricating a working model...
I read plans like other kids read comic books, and reading about stuff is cool and all of that; but things don't really happen when sitting back and reading about them....
Things happen when you pick up a tool, even if it's a drafting pencil and a T-Square.
And that is when life is truly worth living.
PS (on edit): I'm currently a forty five year old kid...
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94van, that's some pretty impressive credentials you have there.
I have flown the 172, 180, T182RG, 206, Cherokee 6 and the wonderful Twin Commanche. I've flown the 210 and Caravan simulators at Flight Safty.
Most of my flying is in the local 172 we have here. I hope to be spending some time in my Dad's Piper 235.
The 180 would the most memorable. We few to Alaska, Florida, and Texas in it just to name a few.
I have flown the 172, 180, T182RG, 206, Cherokee 6 and the wonderful Twin Commanche. I've flown the 210 and Caravan simulators at Flight Safty.
Most of my flying is in the local 172 we have here. I hope to be spending some time in my Dad's Piper 235.
The 180 would the most memorable. We few to Alaska, Florida, and Texas in it just to name a few.
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