Flown a wide variety of aircraft (list)?

Russ, I think that all of us would like to hear more about your adventures in the middle east. My family is full of doctors and nurses so I'm interested in your career as well as the flying...as long as you don't think I'm too nosey. I'm not the only one who finds that many who post on this forum have interesting stories to tell. Beats hell out of reading the newspaper.
Switches

 

Just a few from the past.

AH/MH-6
MH-53J
MH-47D
MH-60L
C-130J
Falcon 2000

Seems like a life time ago.

 

...there I was, flat on my back over the Mach stroking burner lookin' down at an hurtling SA-2 with desire in its eyes..."

No, nothing so exciting.

There was love in the first desert war, though.
One of the pilots, referred to by the squadron as Skippy the Pinhead, had a British girlfriend who flew to Bahrain to be with her boyfriend during the war. We all looked the other way and were even a bit jealous, as she had epic breasts. Once, during a comm out recall, they knocked on his hooch door. There were rustling noises, and he came to the door wearing only his exercise pants. It was then they got their official names of Pup Tent and Big Top.
Another really terrific weasel pilot friend and an Army Reservist medical person had become a bit smitten with each other, and she had gotten him a present in recognition of a birthday or something. Well, we also all tended to look the other way on stuff like this, and that day even took her up in the tower to watch Spike land. The Supervisor of Flying (SOF) told her "there's Spike taxiing in with that 4 ship - do you want to say anything to him?"
Without thinking much, she took the microphone and boldly transmitted over the Shaik Isa Ground Ops Frequency, monitored by nearly everybody, in her sweet female voice, "Hey Spike, I've got a really special present just for you when you get here"
We laughed for weeks.
They eventually got married and are still married to this very day.

 

Pave Low's, NICE!!!

 

Thanks for the chuckles, Russ. Good stuff. Reminds me of sme of the activities in the " medical supply room" at the hospital at Langley Field.
Switches

 

OK- As a WSO/EWO, only the ones I have actually had my hands on the controls in time order I flew them:

C-47
J-3 Cub
T-29C/D
F-111D/A/F/E
C-130 B/E/H
C-141A/B
C-5A
F-4G
RF-4C
F-15D
F-16D
CF-18B
C182

Not much civil flying for me.

Taz
Terry Phillips

 

Wow. What a list! If I allowed my clowning nature to rise I could have said, " Wow! a J-3! " But Terry, I have seen several high thrust jet drivers look like fools in a Cub. Great List !
Switches

 

Bob- Then you must have heard about the F/A-18 Blue Angel pilot who crashed a Sopwith Triplane and was lucky to live through the crash? Let me know if nobody has heard that story. Flying a light airplane, especially a WW-I rotary engine fighter, is a lot different from flying the late model aircraft most of us military types have flown. Many have flown both, but it is still a different type of flying, especially if you were trained on jets only. Test Pilot School does the best job of teaching aircrews to fly anything, but I missed that. I have actually never flown in a jet trainer, only jet fighters, since in the olden days we used T-29s for nav/EWO training. Quite a transition from a T-29C/D to an F-111D as a 2Lt.

Taz
Terry Phillips

 

jk0001, you ex 160th?

 

Off the top of my head:

Piper Warrior (learned to fly in one!)
Piper Archer
Piper Family Cruiser
Piper Arrow IV
Piper Turbo Arrow III
Piper Saratoga
Piper Malibu
Piper Apache
Piper Cheyenne I
Piper Cheyenne III

Cessna 152
Cessna 172
Cessna 172RG
Cessna 182
Cessna P210
Cessna Citation ISP
Cessna Citation II
Cessna Citation Sovereign

Beech Bonanza A36
Beech Duchess
Beech Baron 55
Beech Baron 58

Socata Trinidad
Bellanca Citabria 7ECA
Bellanca Citabria 7KCAB
Great Lakes 2T-1A-2

Fairchild Merlin IIIB

Twin Commander 500B
Twin Commander 690/690A/690B
Twin Commander 840
Twin Commander 980
Twin Commander 1000 & 1000B

Jet Commander 1121
IAI Westwind I
IAI Westwind II

Learjet 24
Learjet 25
Learjet 31
Learjet 35
Learjet 36
Learjet 55

Dassault Falcon 10
Dassault Falcon 50

Robinson R22

There might be a few I've missed, and a few variations that I'm not counting separately.

 

I knew I forgot 1

 

J-3
J-4
PA-18
PA-18A (first solo)
Piper Colt
Piper Supercuriser
Piper Tripacer
PA-28-150/180
Piper Archer
Piper Arrow
Piper Turbo Arrow
Piper Pawnee
Piper Pawnee Brave
Piper Cherrokee 6- 280/300
Piper Saratoga/Lance
Piper Malibu
Piper Apache
Piper Aztec
Piper twin comanche
Piper Seneca I/II/III
Piper Navajo
Cessna 140
Cessna 150
Cessna 152
Cessna 170
Cessna 172
Cessna 172RG
Cessna 182
Cessna P210
Cessna 310
Cessna 337
Cessna 414
Cessna 421
Commander Darter
Commander Lark
Commander 112/114
Beech T-34
Beech Debonair
Beech Bonanza A36
Beech Duchess
Beech Baron 55
Beech Baron 58
Bellanca Citabria 7ECA
Bellanca Citabria 7KCAB
Bellanca 8KCAB
Grumman Tiger
Grumman Ag Cat
Luscombe 8A (the only airplane I ever actually owned)
Stampe SV4
DH82 Tiger Moth
Mooney M20
Aeronca Chief
Aeronca Champ
Boeing Stearman 300/330/450
Thrush Commander


I'm sure there are more but that's off the top of my head.

 

You got us all beat and it's great to know someone who has done all that. I respect and admire those who have endured the quirks of the jets for they have shown great resilience and skill. I respect those who have managed to accommodate the different requirements of a variety of aircraft because it requires attentiveness and the ability to adjust quickly to the different characteristics and demands of the airplane. I admire those who have conquered the vagaries of the current and demanding requirements of modern flying. Being a throw-back, I will forever be awed by the new brand of airman. I think that you know of whom I speak. My hat is off to all of you.
SWitches

 

You reminded me of a couple I missed! Specifically:

Piper Seneca II (got my multiengine rating in one, I don't know how I forgot it!)

Commander Darter
Commander Lark (Both complete pieces of junk, but admittedly the ones I flew were not the best examples)

Commander 114 (That was a nice airplane)

 

I spent the weekend in the area of Vancouver Washington and Beaverton, Or. and had the opportunity to fly a 1941 Luscombe Silvaire owned by an ex-F-14, F-15, C-130, and MD-11 pilot. We tooled around over south Washington state and he told me that I hadn't lost the touch. I last flew a Luscombe in 1951 and I still like them.
Switches

 

Here is my list

C-150
C-152
C-172
C-177rg
P-twin sorry don't remember the number but it was for ATP

B-737 sim for type rating

B-727 FE
B-747-200 FE pax
B-747-200 FE freighter

T-37 UPT
T-38 UPT
T-33
AT-38 LIFT
A-10
KC-135A
KC-135D
KC-135E
KC-135R

 

Jim- Great list. I have flown in at least a dozen KC-135x tankers, but nobody was ever brave enough to let me fly one of the bloody things. Funny thing is, they were more than willing to let me refuel an aircraft. Never did figure that one out, but playing boom operator, which I know you have done even if you cannot admit it (like my loop in an F-111D, which I never did), was great fun. Required serious concentration, though. Leaving a boom in a receptacle was not something for which you wanted to be known throughout your career.

Taz
Terry Phillips

 

some amazing lists. could never begin to compare, but, we do have 20+ FAA STC's. anyone else on the forum hold stc's?

 

I re-read this thread and remember a B-47 that got into a heap of trouble one fall in 1952 when they couldn't make a proper disconnect from a KC-97. We watched the B-47 come in with about 6 feet of boom with ruddervators attached still sticking out of the nose receptacle. The -47's canopy was damaged and full of fuel residue so his approach into Boeing Field was less than good. It was a gusty October day and the landing was more of a controlled crash with the -47 being dropped in about 10 feet and then jack rabbiting and zig-zagging all over the airport. They finally came to rest in the grass off to the left of the runway with a fire in the fwd wheelwell ( hydraulics). Quite a mess but some great airmanship getting the airplane down in one piece. They were difficult to land even when the pilot could see.
We saw a lot of the early flight tests on the B-52 at Boeing Field and there were some hairy close calls before all the test work went to Edwards.
Switches

 

Only in the back of the bus.

F-100 Super Sabre
A-7
A-37
T-33 / F-5
F-4 Phantom
Sabreliner
OV-1-Bronco
C-130's
Huey's
Robinson R22
Alouette
Jet Ranger's
Cessna 172
Cessna 210
Cessna 158

And to top off the list I caught a 'MAC' flight back to DC once on 'Air Force 2' / 707.
If you closed your eyes you couldn't tell when you lifted off or touched down, The pilot was the smoothest
driver ever.

 

bushwhacker. Isn't the Bronco the OV-10??

 

Yup....sure is...........was going to list the little O-1 Birddog FAC aircraft.

 

I do not know if it is still 89th policy but at least in the early 80s they did a training flight every week if there was no mission flight.

Jeff

 

Boy you guys have flown a bunch of different planes. As Goose explained to Slider of the asses he had kissed to get into Top Gun, your guys' list is "long and distinguished..."

Mine not so much. I hopefully will have an opportunity to get some time in a fighter at some point. Not too bad of a list for having only 2.5 hours in March of '04.

Stick time for me:

Piper Warrior/Archer/Arrow (training, Comm. Single Rating, instructing)
Piper Seminole (instructing)
Piper Navajo/Panther (flying charter)

Cessna 172, 172 RG (instructing)
Cessna 421 (Pilot for owner)

Extra 300 (Spin Training for CFI, amazing airplane!)

Beech Dutchess (multi training)
Beech Baron 58 (Pilot for owner)
Beech King Air 200 (charter pilot)

CRJ 200 (Airline)

Airbus 319/321 (Airline)