Unusual modes of transport you have used.

[hash tag]

Ambulance/sleigh

I was also dragged down the mountain on a stretcher by paramedics on skis

Didnt know what to call it; it was mad. Laying on a piece of canvass between to planks of wood. Bearing in mind I could see very little it felt a terrifying speed when being carted of the mountain to hospital.
I've worked in and had a quick drive if both 3 wheel and 5 wheel milkfloats.
Re the cross Thames cable car, there is also one at the Heights of Abraham.
Got a ride on Rinky Dink many years ago

 

[A380]

Bottom one looks like a death trap. Is it also somehow trying to look like a helicopter?

It’s a pedal powered helicopter themed monorail for kids. It’s 20 to 30 ft up with no doors.. fantastic.

 

[8ball]

It’s a pedal powered helicopter themed monorail for kids. It’s 20 to 30 ft up with no doors.. fantastic.

It’s what I imagine ChatGPT would put out if you asked it to draw a picture set in Dagenham in the year 2100.

 

[spitfire]

Any Sinclair C5 riders out there? Must be surely.

 

[Elpenor]

I saw this in the fleet air arm museum and thought “fuck that”



Details of it here - towed by cable from a u boat, used for observation. If the u boat dived suddenly - tough scheisse

Focke-Achgelis Fa 330 - Wikipedia

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[Puddy_Tat]

I saw this in the fleet air arm museum and thought “fuck that”

focke that

 

[A380]

Any Sinclair C5 riders out there? Must be surely.

Yep. They were not bad actually.

 

[iona]

Back of Toyota pick-ups

This too. And a ride on lawnmower, and I always want to try riding around on a robot lawnmower like a cat on a roomba when I seen one - haven't tried that yet though as I'm not sure how much weight they'd take

They're called dolmus in Turkey. Modern ones are mostly transit vans now but back in the day they were like your picture.

I once shared one with a bloke with 3 crates of chickens.

You can take chickens on the bus here tbf. I asked recently because I might need to soon.

 

[Elpenor]

I’ve ridden pillion on a motorbike to help round up some cows at a mates farm

 

[Elpenor]

At the same farm a mate planked a forklift attached to a moving tractor. That was fucking dangerous on reflection

 

[Elpenor]

You can take chickens on the bus here tbf. I asked recently because I might need to soon.

This could only be you posting such a thing

 

[newme]

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This too. And a ride on lawnmower, and I always want to try riding around on a robot lawnmower like a cat on a roomba when I seen one - haven't tried that yet though as I'm not sure how much weight they'd take


You can take chickens on the bus here tbf. I asked recently because I might need to soon.

You seem to live an interesting life.

 

[iona]

This could only be you posting such a thing

Tbh I half suspect the only reason I'm not banned from the buses yet is the drivers are placing bets on what I'll bring on next

 

[Puddy_Tat]

and I always want to try riding around on a robot lawnmower like a cat on a roomba

You can take chickens on the bus here tbf. I asked recently because I might need to soon.

 

[planetgeli]

This too. And a ride on lawnmower, and I always want to try riding around on a robot lawnmower like a cat on a roomba when I seen one - haven't tried that yet though as I'm not sure how much weight they'd take


You can take chickens on the bus here tbf. I asked recently because I might need to soon.

I've well ridden a lawnmower. Not my garden (oh how you'd laugh - my garden is a hill).

Chickens? Pah. Goats in Morocco over the Atlas mountains. And pigs, somewhere.

 

[WouldBe]

Didnt know what to call it; it was mad. Laying on a piece of canvass between to planks of wood.

Stretcher.

 

[DownwardDog]

I'd be interested to hear DownwardDog 's list... Or Lancman

Chipmunk T10
Jet Provost T3/T3A/T4/T5/T5A
Hawk T1/T1A
Tornado F3
Harrier T10/GR7/GR7A
757-200F/PF
747-400F
Gazelle AH1
Cessna 172/172S
Jaguar T2
Lightning T5
F-15D
F-104S
An-12
UH-1H

Since I quit flying and sold my Cessna I now have a Hanse 348 boat which I guess is a mode of transport though not that unusual.

 

[spitfire]

Chipmunk T10
Jet Provost T3/T3A/T4/T5/T5A
Hawk T1/T1A
Tornado F3
Harrier T10/GR7/GR7A
757-200F/PF
747-400F
Gazelle AH1
Cessna 172/172S
Jaguar T2
Lightning T5
F-15D
F-104S
An-12
UH-1H

Since I quit flying and sold my Cessna I now have a Hanse 348 boat which I guess is a mode of transport though not that unusual.

F-104S
Lightning T5

And a Harrier.

Just the highlights from a next level list.

But. Have you been on a funicular railway?

 

[krtek a houby]

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[marty21]

Funicular (Hastings & Prague) that's about it.

Unless being the only passenger on a scheduled flight counts. I was flying from Cincinatti to Champaign-Urbana, I was at the airport when the PA announced that my plane was waiting , which I thought very odd. Went to the departure gate , met the pilot & co-pilot & walked out to the plane with them , we got on , they told me to sit where I wanted to ,(it was a small plane , 40 seats? So I sat down, we took off & landed an hour or so later. I could have asked to sit in the cabin with them I guess (it was in 1987) but I was a bit wtf at the time.

 

[DownwardDog]

F-104S
Lightning T5

And a Harrier.

Just the highlights from a next level list.

But. Have you been on a funicular railway?

I've been on the one at Saltburn I think. It had the same RoC as the Chipmunk mentioned above.

There are probably a few others but I'd have to go through 35+ years of log books to get the definitive list. I forgot my brief fun-filled period of Extra 300L ownership for a start. The "Lomcovak" incident with Madame DD in the back was the closest I've ever come to getting divorced.

Definitely flown a Yak-52 and been in the back seat of a MiG-29U but wasn't brave/stupid enough to take the controls when they were offered.

 

[marty21]

Just remembered , went on the cable car in Barcelona, just before the 92 Olympics, no idea if they still have it.

 

[hash tag]

I've been in the Spruce Goose a year or two back but sadly her flying days were long since over.

 

[iona]

Is anyone else thinking what other modes of transport they could somehow get a go on now?

I know someone who has access to a digger big enough to drive your car into the bucket at the front, several people with boats and light aircraft and a relative I'm not really in contact with who sells cars from back when cars were a brand new thing...

 

[Sasaferrato]

Little prop plane through the Himalayas.

Was there doing leave relief, at BMH Dharan. On handover (Mainly CD and precious metal check) I was told that transport had been booked for me to go to the MRS at the Ghurkha selection centre, as the pharmacy was about five years overdue its annual inspection. The transport was a little prop plane that didn't have the oomph to get over the mountains, it flew between them. At times I swear I could have reached out and touched them. The journey explained why the inspection was so overdue.

The inspection itself was a joy. The place was immaculate, there wasn't a thing out of date, stock levels were appropriate*, prescriptions properly filed etc.

*Outstations had a tendency to hold about five times the stock they needed, it then went out of date and was reordered, huge waste of money.

 

[Lancman]

This ex-Luftwaffe Dagling qualifies as "unusual". The gliding angle wasn't up to much but the all-round view was spectacular.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Concorde - seems only two people on this site have been on it, both are very handsome and intelligent humans.

Also: Mirror Dinghy.

And Heelys.

 

[Voley]

Little prop plane through the Himalayas.

Was there doing leave relief, at BMH Dharan. On handover (Mainly CD and precious metal check) I was told that transport had been booked for me to go to the MRS at the Ghurkha selection centre, as the pharmacy was about five years overdue its annual inspection. The transport was a little prop plane that didn't have the oomph to get over the mountains, it flew between them. At times I swear I could have reached out and touched them. The journey explained why the inspection was so overdue.

The inspection itself was a joy. The place was immaculate, there wasn't a thing out of date, stock levels were appropriate*, prescriptions properly filed etc.

*Outstations had a tendency to hold about five times the stock they needed, it then went out of date and was reordered, huge waste of money.

I got a tiny little plane from Kathmandu to Manang. Brilliant trip - the pilot has to bank between some of the highest mountains in the world.

You land here and then have learn how to breathe with minimal oxygen. Fucking brilliant.

 

[cesare]

Airplane
Hot air balloon
Funicular
Ski lift/cable car
Hovercraft
HSS
Camel
jet boat
Moving walkway
Helicopter
Tourist submarine
Manually operated turntable ferry
Punt
Steam train
Catamaran


I'll edit in more as I think of any.

Edit: flown a light aircraft
Venetian gondola
Venetian water taxi
Tourist rickshaw

 

[Saul Goodman]

Concorde - seems only two people on this site have been on it, both are very handsome and intelligent humans.

Also: Mirror Dinghy.

And Heelys.

Three, including you.