Warbird Information Exchange

Is that something new similar to the tailwheel endorsement? What'll they think of next?!!!

First warbird ride was in one Hannu Halminen’s three Harvards during the making of Iron Eagle IV at Oshawa Airport in 1994. The fun has not stopped.

Eric

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The air resounds from the Rolls-Royce roar!
To an enemy the warning is dire: here only eagles soar,
and the last thing he'll see is a mirrored Spitfire!

My first ride ever was in a Cessna C-170. And as I said before first warbird was the L-21. Hey beachgirl, are you a rated T-6 pilot?

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Chris Henry
EAA Aviation Museum Manager

I don't remember my first airplane flight I was about 6 months old but I think it was Fresno to Dallas probably on a DC-9 or 727. My first non-commercial flight (that I remember) was in a T-bone flown by Ed Schnepf when I was I am guessing about 6 or 7. Followed soon after by my first warbird flight at 6 or 7 in B-25J (PBJ wannabee at the time) Pacific Princess the first time I had my hands on the controls was when I was 12 or 13 in a Citabria (sadly I don't remember how old I was exactly on my first flights .

No, sadly. I worked for T-6 flight operation, so nearly every T-6 flight of mine has been with an instructor...... It's pretty much ruined me for wanting to fly anything less, but then, I've always been a pretty spoiled gal!

That is awsome. The T-6 is every bit a warbird. You seem right at home in the front office, that is why I asked.

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Chris Henry
EAA Aviation Museum Manager

Only been the "backseater" a few times while flying with a friend in his & his wife's T-6G. And here I was thinking forward visibility sucked from the front seat!

My first and only warbird ride came with the fine folks at Warbird Adventures, in the ill-fated N453WA back in January 2004. I had gone out to take pics of "White 1", the Fw 190 under restoration at Mark Timken's place, but got there while they were out. Then, just as I was about to leave, I heard this roar overhead, and a T-6 with a dark green fuselage blasted past... I thought, "what the hell, why not" and decided to go see about a flight.

Literally a half hour later, I had a parachute on, instructions to aim for the "A" on the starboard wing if I had to bail, here's the D-ring, here's the canopy latch, all set? ok go! and off we went. I went up with a very nice South African fellow (Craig? Can't seem to recall at the moment), and did the fifteen-minute tour with turns/banks, wingovers, etc. I sucked at taxiing, but surprised both the IP and myself by actually FLYING the aircraft well, considering the only other thing I had ever flown was a 172 almost 20 years earlier.

It was tremendously enjoyable, and such a terrible shock to hear the plane went down...

Lynn

Lynn, if you got your safety briefing from me, I think it was a bit more detailed than that!

ford tri motor titusville airshow 1980 in fl......that sucker touched down at 6knots!

First, probably a 707 in 1965 or 1966. Flew in Chuck LeMaster's tri-motor in about 1975 at Oshkosh. First fighter ride was in about 1982 with Rick Brickert in a P-51 (no headset- Yikes!). First warbird I flew, my Stearman in 1989.

My first airplane ride was in a two tone red and white Piper Tripacer. Really nice airplane. I flew in it twice.

Other aircraft I've flown in would be a 737, 757, 767, DC-9, A-319, and a Dash 8. I can't compete with anyone on this forum.

Cheers,
Nathan(the shameful).

Hi All,

Well...my first airplane ride was on a BAC-111 when I was around 7 or so, my Dad worked for then Mohawk Airlines and he took me on a "father-son" outing to NYC for the day. I was scared, but after awhile I loved the flight. My father still loves to tease me about it to this day. Probably my one and only "Warbird Ride" was when I was with the Mid Atlantic Air Museum back in the mid 1980's. And I flew in the R4D. That was a neat flight. On the way back from the airshow were had been asked to attend, the pilot had to do an aborted take-off because the runway at the airport was kinda short and he must have misjudged the speed and runway length.

As far as my getting a ride in a REAL warbird, and mind you I am NOT taking anything away from the R4D flight. I would give something very very personal (insert your own expression here) to get a ride in a B-25, Mustang, TBM, B-24, B-17, or just about anything with a round engine.

Unfortunately I missed my chance when I worked with Planes of Fame when they were in Minnesota. I was in the middle of doing a line check on their Thunderbolt and Hellcat, and my best friend got the chance to hop in the Corsair...lucky him

I am HOPEFUL to get a ride someday.......and if anyone wants to trade some warbird maintenance work which I'd gladly do, for a ride...PLEASE let me know

Paul

First airplane ride? Don't remember it at all but it would have been on an Air Canada Viscount, around 1967.

First vintage ride (given that a Viscount wasn't quite vintage yet in '67) would have been CWH's Fairchild 24R, to, from and around wonderful Geneseo, with Keith Houston at the pole (Keith now flies CWH's Firefly). That was in September 1986 and remains the only time I attended an airshow in a participating aircraft. Also shot my only air-to-air photos from the old Fairchild that weekend (we were part of a formation of various Fairchilds being photographed from an L-5 for a magazine).

First warbird (sort of) ride, November 1986, aboard CWH's Anson V on the day their Cessna Crane restoration (by Harry "HV" Smith and crew) was first flown.

Closest I've come to a hop in a combat type, MAAM's SNJ in Atlantic Fleet camouflage, with the rear canopy folded open, from Reading PA during a summer 1998 vacation...simply grand.

List of vintage types ridden aboard...F24; Stearman; SNJ; Anson; Beech 18; DC-3; Lockheed 10A; Convair 580; DC-8-61 with old straight-through turbojets (Mt.Hope-to-Gatwick in 1989, so she was vintage at the time)...

(No prizes for guessing what ol' Steve would really like most to aviate in!)

S.

First flight: Convair 240 or 440 from Chicago to the Mississippi Gulf Coast in '61 or '62 (I was 1 year old).

First private plane flight: My uncle Tommy's Piper Cub for a leisurely buzz around Paducah, Kentucky which was very interesting after we landed and the wasps nesting in the wing started taking leisurely buzzes at me; around 1971.

First (and so far only) warbird flight: Doug Goss's T-6G 49-2897/N7197C from the Victory Air Museum in Mundelein, IL to the Oshkosh airshow in 1981. An unforgettable experience - especially when we did a nice buzzjob and high-G pullout over the VAM. I had a BIG smile on my face (because the Gs were pulling back on my cheeks).

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