Trip of a lifetime - I can't wait!

[zoco]

My folks have bought me this for my 40th later this year.

I'm quite a big aviation buff and I love all the old airliners - been on a Trident and a Tristar, would have sold my granny to have flown on Concorde.

But I've never been on a DC10 and my dear mum and dad , bless them, have found the last remaining service to operate a DC 10 and have booked me on a one way flight.

It's operated by Biman Airlines (the national carrier of Bangladesh) and I'll be flying from Dhaka to Birmingham. In fact, I believe the DC 10 is going to be withdrawn later in the year and this will be one of a number of farewell flights.

My only reservation is that I hope they're better than PIA.

[DirtyDog]

£600 to fly in economy in a 30+ year old plane one way from Bangladesh to Birmingham.

(Plus the cost of getting to Bangladesh in the first place).

Think I'd rather have had the cash, thanks.

[Bunk]

When I first read this I thought they were telling you to f*** off and don't come back.

[eek]

My folks have bought me this for my 40th later this year.

I'm quite a big aviation buff and I love all the old airliners - been on a Trident and a Tristar, would have sold my granny to have flown on Concorde.

You didn't miss much it was very cramped.

[TestMangler]

I went on the trip of a lifetime last year. tell you what, never again.....

(C) Tim Vine

[Halo Jones]

You didn't miss much it was very cramped.

But it was an experience: I liked the screens that showed you how high / fast you were going & it's likely the closest I will ever get to going in to space

[zoco]

But it was an experience: I liked the screens that showed you how high / fast you were going & it's likely the closest I will ever get to going in to space

Where d'ja go? LHR - JFK? I always wanted to do that and take the QE2 in the other direction.

Someone said I should take the Queen Mary but it wouldn't be the same. The QM is not an ocean going liner, it's a glorified cruise ship really.

[darmstadt]

I've never flown on Concorde but I have been on it, at the Paris airshow back in '69 and I remember them testing it. They weren't allowed to test it overland in Europe so they did it in South Africa and I can remember lying in, and around, the swimming pool after school waiting for it to fly over, and it used to fly quite low! I was also in a Douglas Dakota (DC3) which got struck by lightning when flying from Rhodesia to South Africa, now that was scary. It suddenly dropped a couple of thousand feet and the majority of passengers tulip themselves apart from my little sister who likened it to fairground ride and was in high spirits.

[zoco]

they weren't allowed to test it overland in Europe so they did it in South Africa

It used to go up from Filton on its test flights - that's over land.

[vwdan]

That's awesome - I'd love a go in DC-10. I think my dream would be a flight over the channel in a C-53, but I don't think it'll ever happen now.

The best flight I've ever had was in an RAF Nimrod, but it's also the most ill I've ever been on a journey. They do (Well, did) things in those that an airliner really shouldn't be doing.