On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:42:40 -0400, "Tom Hippie"
wrote:
>Okay, here are all the airliner models I've flown on during my
>domestic travels:
OK, I'll play, but adding a few that were military and
international:-)
DC3 Dakota
Vampire
Iroquois helo
Chinook helo
Caribou
DC-6
C-130 Hercules
Beechcraft (8-seater, model unknown)
Martin 404
Mystere(Falcon) 20
HS-748
Focker Friendship F27
BAC 111
Boeing:
707
727
717
737
747
Douglas
DC-9
MD-80 various
ATR72
BA146
BA:
310
320
330
340
CRJ
Forgotten several...
Airlines:
Butler
Ansett
Compass
ANA
Trans Australian
Qantas
Virginblue
Virgin Pacific
Air New Zealand
Jetstar
American Airlines
US Airways
Iberian
Air Nostrum
British Airways
Aer Lingus
Gulf Air
Delta
Also forgotten several more:-)
Longest non-stop Sydney-LAX 13 hours in 2003, although it
took longer in the 707 SYD-SFO in 1967 refuelling at Nadi
and Honolulu.
Shortest Dublin-Edinburgh in a BA146.
Worst airline employee - chief steward on Iberian San Juan
to Madrid; story is too long.
Worst encounters on airports: any US TSA person.
Best airline encounter: Qantas stewards when my wife was ill
London-Singapore. Also Qantas aircrew in 1972, Burnie
(Tasmania) to Tullamarine (Melbourne) who landed a Fokker
Friendship F27 in a raging storm and incredible winds and
shear when all alternate airports were even worse. I'm still
here to tell the tale:-)
Unforgettable moment; seeing the looks on the faces at close
range (like, 6 feet) of the Air Traffic Controllers in the
Newcastle tower as our Dakota captain lost it on takeoff in
1968 and we skimmed their roof.
Cheers, Alan, Australia
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