User:Lestocq
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[edit]My first significant contribution to Wikipedia was back in 2006, when I created the Tankerton article - about the place where I grew up.
I've done some more since then, so the full list of articles I've created is:
- Tankerton
- Asso Aerei
- Caproni Ca.193
- Rubik R-18 Kánya
- Budaörs Airport
- Bekesbourne Aerodrome
- Marcel Jurca
- Jurca MJ-54 Silas
- Jurca MJ-53 Autan
- Jurca MJ-51 Sperocco
- Michel Wibault
- Émile Dorand
- La Brayelle Airfield
- Chalais-Meudon
- Air Kruise
- Edward Whitehead Reid
- Western Airways
- Haldon Aerodrome
- Straight Corporation
- Helicopter Air Transport
- Camden Central Airport
- Johnny Miller (aviator)
- Highland Airways Limited
- Northern & Scottish Airways
- Scottish Airways
- Midland & Scottish Air Ferries
- North Eastern Airways
- National Flying Services
- Martin Hearn Ltd
- Lancashire Aircraft Corporation
- Cramlington Aerodrome
- Bowland Forest Gliding Club
I've rewritten several existing articles:
I have also made significant contributions to these articles:
- Ramsgate Airport
- List of model aircraft manufacturers
- Gyrodyne QH-50 DASH Surviving aircraft section
- Vélizy – Villacoublay Air Base Early history section
- Ipswich Airport
- RAF Kingston Bagpuize
- The Aeroplane Collection at Hooton Park section rewrite
- Samlesbury Aerodrome
- RNAS Hatston (HMS Sparrowhawk)
- Aeronca C-3 Surviving aircraft section
- RNAS Inskip (HMS Nightjar)
- Aeronca C-2 Surviving aircraft section
As a lifelong aviation enthusiast and photographer, I use the list of Wikipedia's requested photographs of aircraft and have added quite a few photos from my collection, including those on this page.
Interesting aircraft I have flown in
[edit]I have taken flying lessons, but decided that piloting was not for me, but I do love flying as a passenger, and take pleasure flights in anything available that I can afford - so not warbirds, then.
Here are some of the more interesting aircraft that I have flown in:
- Aerospatiale AS350 AStar
- Auster 5
- Auster J/1N Alpha
- Beech 99 Airliner
- Bell 47G
- Bell Jetranger
- British Aerospace 146
- British Aerospace ATP
- Cameron Hot Air Balloon
- Cessna U206 Super Skywagon[a]
- Cessna 208B Grand Caravan
- de Havilland DH.84 Dragon
- de Havilland DH.89A Dragon Rapide
- de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter floatplane
- Douglas DC-3
- Douglas DC-4
- Douglas DC-9
- Fairchild PT-19 Cornell
- Ford 4-AT-E Trimotor
- Grumman AA-5B Tiger
- Hawker Siddeley Trident
- Helio H-295 Super Courier
- LET L-13 Blanik
- Lockheed L-1011 TriStar
- Max Holste MH1521M Broussard
- McDonnell Douglas DC-10
- Miles Gemini
- New Standard D-25
- Piper J-3C-65 Cub floatplane
- Polikarpov Po-2
- Robinson R-44 Raven II
- Rubik R-18 Kánya
- Saunders-Roe SR.N6
- Schleicher ASK 13
- Schleicher ASK 21
- Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer
- SOCATA TB-10 Tobago
- Stinson V-77 Reliant Mk 1
- Tupolev Tu-134
- Tupolev Tu-154
- Vickers Vanguard
- Vickers Viscount
- Waco UPF-7
- ^ Take-off only – landed by parachute (round, static line, solo).