What CF aircraft have you flown/taxi'd in?

[jzaidi1]

Wow,

Just remembering the days long ago when I was a cadet and a reservist.  Looking back on the CF aircraft I have either flown in or taxi'd around in.  Come to think of it I've been around military aircraft for about 10 years - countless many of them. Also - none of the aircraft listed were during airshows, many of them were on operational bases that I was posted at (Class B callouts or training).

Would like to hear from other folks and who has been in what aircraft.

CPL Jay
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CF:
Tutor - Taxi'd with the Reg Force SGT at CFB Borden while on cadet Airframe Tech course
Buffalo - flown in, CFB Shearwater
Hercules - flown in, CFB Borden
Twin Huey - flown in, CFB Gagetown
Kiowa - flown in, CFB Gagetown
Polaris - flown in, service flight from Halifax to Toronto
Cadet Glider - flown in for familiarization flight at CFS Debert - cadet camp
Cessna 172 - flown in for famil flight at CFS Debert - cadet camp
Sea King - flown in, CFB Halifax
CF-18 - Sat in, CFB Shearwater
CF-5 - Sat in, CFB Borden
Aurora - Sat in @ US Air force base near Portland, Maine (window blow-out forced CDN Aurora to land day before)

US:
Blackhawk (EW version) - flew in for joint training exercise at CFB Kingston during my time at CFSCE

Fun!

 

[PuckChaser]

I flew a herc (for only 20 mins) heading back from A-Stan a few months ago. Yes, thats why the ride was bumpy!

Otherwise, I've flown in a Polaris, Herc, Chinook (Dutch), Blackhawk (US) all from the tour, and a Griffon on a weekend ex.

 

[Yrys]

What CF aircraft have you flown/taxi'd in?

None . 

 

[Jammer]

Twin Huey
Griffon
Labrador
Chinook (CDN & US)
Buffalo
Cosmo (Not many remember that one)
Argus
Musketeer
C-130
Polaris
Blackhawk
Boeing 707
Kiowa
Single Huey

 

[K225]

This will show my age:
Dakota
C119
C130B
C130E
Yukon
North Star
Vertol 107 Voyageur
L19
Harvard
Sat in
Hurricane XII
Spitfire XVI
Sabre
Beech 18

 

[MikeL]

Griffon
Dunno what kind of plane I flew out of Canada in... was big an grey lol
C17

 

[medicineman]

Hmmm - Cdn:  Herc, Kiowa, Twin Huey, Griffon, Polaris, DC-8 ("the Boeing"), taxied in a Buff, did load configurations on a Challenger and Lab as well.

            Brit: Gazelle (very scary ride)

            US: UH-1 Huey (single engine)

MM

 

[Nfld Sapper]

CC-130 Hercules

CC-150 Polaris

Also sat in or had the 2 cent tours of:

CH-146 Griffon
CH-124 Sea King
CH-113 Labrador

 

[40below]

My most memorable CF flight (which is to say my most terrifying) was a flight from Yellowknife to Tulita with the CF Northern Area commander in a blizzard on a Twin Otter for the mustering of a new Ranger patrol. After too many hours with our knees bouncing off our chins, we see the lights of Tulita, but rather than land at the airport after midnight, the pilot flies over the settlement, so close to the communication towers in an 80km/h wind and snow that I can still count the rivets where the guy wires attach to them, circles at a low altitude in winds that would make a billy goat puke then comes down for a landing. It's all quiet and dark as he taxis up to the deserted terminal on the gravel strip. Someone asks (might have been me, but I think I was busy unattaching my fingers from the seat in front), "Why THE HELL did you not you land the first time?" - northern runways are rarely blocked up with traffic. Pilot says, "Oh, I need fuel, so I had to wake up the guy who runs the fuel truck here. I know where he lives, so I buzzed his house."

That was also the trip where I was told that a foreign exotic would be my taxi there and sure enough it was - town's lone taxi was a 1986 Hyundai Pony.

 

[NL_engineer]

Well I have flown in:

Hercules
Polars
Griffin

 

[PMedMoe]

Hercules (first plane I had ever flown in)
Boeing 707
Chinook
Twin Huey
Griffon
Airbus

 

[WrenchBender]

Canadian
CC137 Boeing (medicineman it's a 707)
CC130 Herc
CH124 Sea Pig
CH147 Chinook
CH113 Lab
CH113A Voyageur
CC109 Cosmo
CC138 Twin Otter (Ski's, Floats and Wheels all 3 sizes)
CC150 Polaris
Not counting numerous tow jobs etc
US
SH60F Seahawk
AH1 Cobra
Almost- C2A Greyhound aboard the Abe Lincoln, strapped in waiting for engine start. When the AMU guys came and got me and I went back to my ship on the SH60.

WrenchBender

OOPS Forgot the CH135 Twin Huey (Rappeling)

 

[Fishbone Jones]

Huey
Kiowa
Single Otter
Tracker
Buffalo
CF-101 Voodoo
T-33
Tracker
Argus
Boeing 707
Herc
Polaris
Griffon

Forgot:
Iroquois & Chinook

Taking the Santa Summer Sleigh to Radio Chatter.

 

[Bruce Monkhouse]

Not one that I actually liked......

 

[TN2IC]

Flying wise... cadet glider.


Sat in/work in Hercs, Auroras, Sea Kings and Griffins...

 

[MG34]

Not as long of a list as some  but:

Canadian flown in:

C130 Herc
CC-144 Challenger (took the PM's  plane to FT Benning nice ride)
CC-150 Polaris
CC-137 (Boeing 707)
CH135 Iroquois
CH-47C Chinook

Other:

German Single Huey
German Puma
US Blackhawk
US Chinook
Brit Puma
German Sea Stallion
USMC Sea Knight

Sat in or did the $0.02 tour of

Ukrainian Mi24 Hind E
US C5 Globemaster
US C141 Starlifter
USMC V-22 Osprey
Brit Sea Harrier
CF 18
French Mirage V

 

[aesop081]

None

 

[TCBF]

Cdn:
DC-3, Herc, Buffalo, Otter, Tw'Otter, Twin Huey, Griffon, Chinook, 707, Airbus

US:
Galaxy C5B, C-17, Herc

Ge:
BO-105, C-160 Transall (take-offs,did not land with a/c  ;D).

 

[2 Cdo]

Don't actually know official designations but,
707
Herc
Huey
Chinook
Twin Otter
Dakota
Griffin
Dash 8
Globemaster

Others,
Blackhawk
Starlifter
Galaxy
Hot Air Ballon (Britain)
Sea Stallion?(I think ??? great big American helicopter)
Hip

I think that sums it up quite well.

 

[Strike]

Holy cow.  All these responses and only one person has spelled it right...it's GRIFFON!!