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![]() Al G wrote: How many "Types" have you flown? Without mentioning any names, I have recently seen claims of having flown more than a thousand types. Are there a thousand types? Are there 1000 civilian types? Maybe I'm looking at this wrong, if I fly a C-210, a T-210 and a P-210, I consider them all one type. They are all on one type certificate, right? An astronaut bio I recently read claimed he had flown 56 types. I believe it, he could probably tell you the serial #'s. Although I haven't counted, in 35 years I've probably flown dozens. Statistically, if you HAD flown 1,000 types, have you flown half of the aircraft types ever flown? 1/4? I guess we could limit it to production types, but that would rule out Crossfield and Yeager and others who probably got exposed to more types than "average". I think that this fellow never flew military active duty, so that should limit it somewhat. We should definitely rule out any simulator time. AL G There was recently another thread along this line. I remember looking up Eric "Winkle" Brown of the British Fleet Air Arm WW2 era. He is widely regarded as having flown more individual aircraft types than anyone in history. IIRC his numbers were between 400 and 500. He was the Royal Navy's chief test pilot for much of the war and afterward. He test flew every aircraft in inventory including all the American types purchased or leased for the war and all the captured enemy types. John Dupre' |
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