Everything you always wanted to ask...

[B777LR]

Has anybody on this forum flown onboard a military aircraft as passenger or crewmember? (I know Zac has flown Tiger Moths, but anyone else?)

I have flown in a number of different ones.  Although it was over 25 years ago. Why do you ask?

Ed 

Just curious...

[Nick]

I went up in a DeHavilland Dragon Rapide for a fun flight a couple of years ago.
It was used by the RAF in WW2 as a transport aircraft so does that count?

Has anyone here been to the Helicopter Museum at Weston-super-Mare? Any thoughts?

Nick

[Martin H]

Chipmunk
Puma HC-1
Chinnok HC-1
Gazelle HCC-2
Andover CC-1
BAC 1-11 Radar test bed
Harrier T-4 (totaly unofficial, the driver would have been shot if it was ever found out he had a passenger LOL)
VC-10 C-1

All the above while I was a Cadet in the ATC
Im also told we did a few trooping flights in a Britannia C-1 when i was a kid comeing back on leave from germany and also an RCAF CC-137 on the same run.
Cant say I remember any of the trooping flights as i was only 5 or 6 at the time.

[GTX]

Has anybody on this forum flown onboard a military aircraft as passenger or crewmember?

Quite a few times - but being in the RAAF gives one that easily.

Regards,

Greg

[Hobbes]

Has anyone here been to the Helicopter Museum at Weston-super-Mare? Any thoughts?

Yes, I was there last year. They have a decent collection with some fairly unusual specimens (e.g. some Westland mockups and prototypes, the only surviving Rotodyne parts). You probably won't need an entire day for a visit (I spent about 3 hours there). If you're in the area, the Bristol Aero collection at Kemble airfield is worth a visit as well (but they're only open 1-2 days a week).

http://www.bristolaero.com/

[Aircav]

Has anybody on this forum flown onboard a military aircraft as passenger or crewmember?

As a pessenger in VC-10's and Britannia's 
Oh and as a student in Chipmunk's

[rallymodeller]

Has anybody on this forum flown onboard a military aircraft as passenger or crewmember? (I know Zac has flown Tiger Moths, but anyone else?)

Canadian Herks a couple of times, CC137 Husky configured as an in-flight refueler (but as a passenger), and a few times in a CH135 Iroquois. Too tall for most military hot jets, unfortunately. Closest to a combat jet was once in a CC-117 Falcon set up for EW training.

[Ed S]

Has anybody on this forum flown onboard a military aircraft as passenger or crewmember? (I know Zac has flown Tiger Moths, but anyone else?)

I have flown in a number of different ones.  Although it was over 25 years ago. Why do you ask?

Ed 

Just curious...

Anyway, to expand on what I flew.  The ones I actually flew (as opposed to just rode in)
A-7D
OV-10A
AT-33
T-33
T-37
T-38
T-41

Some that I rode in
UH-1
AH-1
OH-58
CH-3
CH-53
F-100
C-47
C-130
C-141
C-124
C-131
T-29
C-97
T-39
C-9

Ed

[nev]

RAF VC-10 as a nipper on the way to Cyprus and back

[cthulhu77]

AH Snakes, Slicks, Hogs, and Bugs.
Hercules.

[kitbasher]

Man and boy, starting with th most time and going all the way down to the least.  All as a passenger, although taken the controls of the trainers in flight:

VC10 K2, C1, K3
TRISTAR KC1, K1, C2
HERCULES C1, C-130E, C-130H
SHACKLETON AEW2
GAZELLE AH1, HT3
SENTRY E-3B
JET PROVOST T4
BULLDOG T1
CHIPMUNK T10
BLACKHAWK UH-60A
CANBERRA T4, B2
ANDOVER CC2
SUPER JOLLY HH-53C
DEVON C2
NIMROD R1
BAC 1-11 (MIL)
WESSEX HC2, HAR2
SEA KING HAS1, HAS2
LYNX AH7
VIKING TX1
HUNTER T7
WHIRLWIND HAR10
PUMA HC1

[proditor]

Okay, suppose I wanted to make an A-4 even smaller.  How possible would it be to swap the wings for something that folds?  Additionally, if I took out the landing gear, how possible would it be to install the skid/float system of the sea dart?  I don't need a lot of wing fold from what I can see, it looks like 5 feet in from the wingtips would do it.

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

Has anybody on this forum flown onboard a military aircraft as passenger or crewmember? (I know Zac has flown Tiger Moths, but anyone else?)

T-6 Harvard - (@ Kissimmee Fl.)
Chipmunk - RAF AEF
Bulldog - RAF AEF/UAS
Whirlwind - Sometime in the mid 70's on a forces recruiting day
Wessex - RAF/HMCG cross training flight early 90's
Sea Kings (lots) - HMCG, RAF - Hey, it's terrible job but somebody has to do it, right !

So let me get this straight, our own Ed S is a former SLUF and OV-10 driver ?..... how cool is that !

Ian

[Mossie]

Few questions on the weapons included in the Nimrod kit.

The ones I can identify, Sidewinder, Sting Ray torpedo, Boz, Harpoon.  Can anyone tell me what models are the sonobouys, the other fishes (Mk.46?) & what is the triple poddy thing that goes at the front of the weapons bay on all versions?

[GTX]

Few questions on the weapons included in the Nimrod kit.

The ones I can identify, Sidewinder, Sting Ray torpedo, Boz, Harpoon.  Can anyone tell me what models are the sonobouys, the other fishes (Mk.46?) & what is the triple poddy thing that goes at the front of the weapons bay on all versions?

Post a pic, and I'll try to tell you.

Regards,

Greg