Cockpits I have sat in.

[RLN]

Anyway that's olive - not green.

[Xplumberlives]

I thought OLIVES were BLACK!

[Olicat]

Olive

[Xplumberlives]

Which one is Olive?

[RLN]

Don't be obtuse.

[Xplumberlives]

You old square!

[RLN]

Good grief!

[Xplumberlives]

Don't bring Charlie Brown in to this!

[Olicat]

Add these to my list :
Supermarine Swift
Saro Skeeter
Sandringham 4 flying boat

[Baz62]

Got a bit of an edge because I'm not shy and I've worked on a few historic types over the years (even got to ground run a couple of them too. So:
Bristol Freighter
Dakota
T11 Vampire
Fb5 Vampire
Harvard
P51D Mustang
Devon
Grumman TBF Avenger
Canberra (Aussie built one)
Tiger Moth
Neptune
Auster

And before 9/11 ended the practice I've even been on the flight decks of a 747 (somewhere over Canada on the way from the UK home to NZ via LA) and a 737 in flight. (737 was cool as I got to stay in the jump seat through to landing!) I knew having a PPL would come in handy for more than flying Cherokees!

[Xplumberlives]

Did the Airliner thing years ago on a Trident from Heathrow to Edinburgh and back curtesy of Hughie Green.

[Cluny]

Just reviving this thread from the dead

I knew the picture still existed somewhere , my old man found this whilst clearing his office out last week [he's just retired] .

Me in a 20TFW F-111E Aardvark at Sky Pagent 92 aged 10
20 years ago , permission to feel old

[MOD]

Old , Old , are you mad? 1992 was like: YESTERDAY!!!!

Now looking at slides from 1971 is like - 'The past is a foreign country -' .....


ibw

[RLN]

You haven't changed much, Cluny.

[Jigsaw]

You haven't changed much, Cluny.

Almost choked on me cider then

Great pic though

[Bovril]

lots of vulcans
concorde (USS intrepid)
appache (on flight deck of USS Iwo Jima )
osprey (on flight deck of USS Iwo Jima )
blackhawk (on flight deck of USS Iwo Jima )
phanton
nimrod
guppy
lightnings
comet
Canberra
Lightning
Hunter
Meteor
F-111
Jet Provost
Dakota
Islander
Dragon Rapide
Sea King
747 (space shuttle recovery
B52
Lanc
Buccaneer
vampire
venom
shack (at RAF St Mawgan and Newark)

add

b1b
valiant
gnat
vc10

[Minty4371]

I haven't sat in any, and probably never will.

Change that to:
Sat in Right Hand Seat of XM655 whilst being towed down runway .

[Dougs]

Lightning
Hawk
Guppy
Vulcan
Victor
Hunter
Lancaster
Halifax
Sea king
Concorde
Iskara
Navy bucc
Argosy
Gnat
Typhoon
Very prob more but cant remember

[Yorkie]

I'm saving my first time for a Dakota
So going on that logic, I'll probably never sit in a cockpit

Go to elvington, ask nicely.......

Iv'e only sat in a few (being none RAF)

* Dakota DC3
* Tornado F3
* Hawk (100sqn)
* Hawk (Red arrow)
* Merlin
* Chinook
* Puma
* Tucano (Flew in that one.... Never again!!!) never trust friends!!!!!!
* Nimrod
* Lightning
* Harrier GR3
* Halifax.....
* Bucaneer
* Hunter
* Victor
* Jet Provost
* Typhoon

Think thats all of it.... won't be any more RAF planes going on there as both friends are now civilian...

[Hihonyr8811]

I actually don't want to sit anything makes me nervous for some reason.

Anyway I've done a Dak now even if it wasn't the cockpit (it was roped off), so even though my total is still 0, it doesn't bother me

[Yorkie]

Only time to be nervous is when the ground cre have you climbing all over live seats to get in.... oh then tell you not to touch anything!

The typhoon was lit up like blackpool... was great but i wanted to start pressing buttons..

seriously, if you get to elvington, just ask them. the only ones they can't do anything with are the ones they don't own (lightning) the ones that still have RAF connections (nimrod) and the Halifax (because thats kinda special and fragile)