Your Favorite Aviation Experience
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I'll start:
My favorite aviation experience is hard to narrow down (I have so many favorites!). I'll have to say, it would be my first formation flight in a real airplane. Likely something few people get to do is fly in formation. I got lucky and got the flight of a lifetime in a formation of 2 T-34 Mentors and a French TB-30 Epsilon. I was riding back seat in the T-34 on left wing and outer right echelon (when we switched formation). We did a break over the airport for breakfast and on the way back, flew in a Vic formation down the coast at 250 feet above the waves! Probably one of the coolest flights I've ever been in. No stick time with this one but I'm sure I'll trump the experience later by flying it myself and doing some acro.
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Another couple of experiences happened a bit more recently. A couple months ago, I got to go watch an airshow that had Team Oracle's Challenger III biplane along with plenty of other high-flying aerobatics.
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Another thing was getting 10+ mins of stick time in a Hughes 369A when I was 9.
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But the coolest one of all would have to be the helicopter ride I took last week. The company I work for owns a heli for airport inspections, wildlife assessments around the airports and what not.
So last week we took the heli to block island to do some maintenance But boy oh boy that was no regular point A to point B ride. The pilot took us for a small tour around the southern part of the state and did several low flybys over a few beaches, camps and over an oyster farm all while "trying to evade the enemy fire" with steep banked turns and steep climbs and descents.
Very cool!
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