Allegiant Air Fuel Incident

BobDDuck said:
I guess I don't really care so much about the history of an aircraft. If it's got two wings (minimum), two engines (minimum), a comfortable seat, good AC and a working lav, I'm happy. The type certificate says Boeing 717. The registration say's Boeing 717. My type rating says DC9. I use the [HASHTAG]#notreallyaboeing[/HASHTAG] hash tag sometimes. C'est la vie.
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Hipster! :D

No one cares about history anymore........haha!
 
Avalon781ML said:
Oh boy... so... no... no no no no no no... the 135 and 717 are nothing alike.
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Technically, he's right. The KC135 is a modified design of the Boeing 707. The original designation was 717 (which logically follows 707). For whatever reason it got the KC135 designation instead.
 
BobDDuck said:
I think you are confusing hipsters with nihilists.
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MikeD said:
And as an aside it's an MD-95, not a 717. It isn't no Boeing product. :)
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And to me the Model 717 is the basis for the KC-135, not some rehashed McDonnell Douglas passenger jet. :bang:

Never could figure out why Boeing reused that designation.
 
MikeD said:
To me, a Boeing 717, is a KC-135 (even though one gets a Boeing 707/720 type in one).
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Ooops. See you beat me to that little bit of aviation trivia. Even my KC-135 flying dad didn't know it was actually a 717 he was flying all those years. He always thought it was a 707 until I broke it to him.
 
BobDDuck said:
Technically, he's right. The KC135 is a modified design of the Boeing 707. The original designation was 717 (which logically follows 707). For whatever reason it got the KC135 designation instead.
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That's actually not quite correct. The KC-135 was directly descended from the 367-80, and shares the Dash 80s narrow fuselage. The 707 is longer and the fuselage cross-section is wider than the Dash 80 and offshoot 717.
 
RDoug said:
That's actually not quite correct. The KC-135 was directly descended from the 367-80, and shares the Dash 80s narrow fuselage. The 707 is longer and the fuselage cross-section is wider than the Dash 80 and offshoot 717.
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Where does the 720 fit into all this?
 
Roger Roger said:
Where does the 720 fit into all this?
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The 720 was a shortened, short-to-medium haul version of the 707-120. It was about nine feet shorter than the medium haul -120, and sixteen feet shorter than the long-haul 707-320. It also shared the same reduced wingspan of the -120, but with modifications for reduced drag. As such the 720 had a reputation of being a real hot-rod, not unlike the Convair 880/990 series — fast, short takeoff run, short landing roll out.

The replacement for the 720 was the 727.
 
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