Almost cancelled, the Boeing 737 has endured 49 years

MikeD said:
Couple of my coworkers fly 737-200s for Sierra Pacific here at TUS.

Whereas I used to take for granted seeing 737-200s and such around here, with America West and SWA having flown them so much around PHX/TUS, now seeing one takeoff/land is a stop-what-I'm-doing moment. Same for when the corporate 727-100 comes in/out of here, or the cargo 727-200 does.
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I was at TUS a few weeks ago. In the morning doing my walk around I was watching endless F-16s beat up the pattern and saw two of Sierra Pacific's 737-200s taxi out and depart one right after the other. As we taxied out I saw a DHC-7 there as well!! I need to go spend a few days at TUS just spotting. One of my favorite airports for seeing unique planes.

I miss it back in the 90s and early 2000s when I lived in Austin we had America West, Delta, and Southwest 737-200s coming in multiple times a day. Those were the days!
 
MikeD said:
I like both of them. The Airbus is one of more quiet cockpit/cabins I've rode in, even the older A310.
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The 320 jumpseat is downright luxurious, whereas the 737 should have probably been banned under the Geneva Conventions. I was pretty surprised when "getting up to stretch" didn't involve stowing the jumpseat, calling the FAs, and doing musical pilots for 10 minutes.
 
JustinS said:
I was at TUS a few weeks ago. In the morning doing my walk around I was watching endless F-16s beat up the pattern and saw two of Sierra Pacific's 737-200s taxi out and depart one right after the other. As we taxied out I saw a DHC-7 there as well!! I need to go spend a few days at TUS just spotting. One of my favorite airports for seeing unique planes.

I miss it back in the 90s and early 2000s when I lived in Austin we had America West, Delta, and Southwest 737-200s coming in multiple times a day. Those were the days!
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Not to be a nitpicker... but unique planes would be an oxymoron, unlike big Irish guys who might be Oxy Morans. An example of A unique plane would be, say, the Spruce Goose... there's only one, which is what puts the uni in unique. Which is not to say that you couldn't see unique planes. You could... as long as you saw, say, the Spruce Goose and some other one-off type. ;)
 
Crop Duster said:
Not to be a nitpicker... but unique planes would be an oxymoron, unlike big Irish guys who might be Oxy Morans. An example of A unique plane would be, say, the Spruce Goose... there's only one, which is what puts the uni in unique. Which is not to say that you couldn't see unique planes. You could... as long as you saw, say, the Spruce Goose and some other one-off type. ;)
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Each plane is unique. No two are 100% alike.... I'd call a DHC-7 pretty rare now-a-days...
 
JustinS said:
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Each plane is unique. No two are 100% alike.... I'd call a DHC-7 pretty rare now-a-days...
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Rare, perhaps. Not unique. :)
Hey, I'm not bustin' your chops. It's just a linguistic pet peeve of mine.
When people say things like, "that's a very unique widget", it feels to me like fingernails on a blackboard. Unique is an absolute. Something is either unique or not. There's no modifying the degree of uniqueness. And there's only one of something that's unique. It's not like a simple typo. It's akin to people who say, "I could care less" when what they mean is exactly the opposite. To wit, "I could NOT care less". Take it or leave it, as you will. But think about it next time you interview. Speech is logic vocalized. How we speak denotes how we think. When one says something that means exactly the opposite of what one is trying to say, it means one is not really thinking about what one is saying. This can lead to problems.
 
JordanD said:
The 320 jumpseat is downright luxurious, whereas the 737 should have probably been banned under the Geneva Conventions. I was pretty surprised when "getting up to stretch" didn't involve stowing the jumpseat, calling the FAs, and doing musical pilots for 10 minutes.
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On a 737-300 once with both jumpseats in operation. That one behind the Captain Geneva convention reportable indeed. :)
 
MikeD said:
On a 737-300 once with both jumpseats in operation. That one behind the Captain Geneva convention reportable indeed. :)
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At my last job I used to jumpseat on 737-200s. They always brought a load master with them, and most of the time it was a big Samoan guy. That made for a cramped flightdeck.
 
Certain things seem like they were way more ballin back in olden times. Barrel rolls and soft field ops in transport category aircraft? In today's world, pretty sure that's gonna be a paddlin'.
 
uncreative said:
Certain things seem like they were way more ballin back in olden times. Barrel rolls and soft field ops in transport category aircraft? In today's world, pretty sure that's gonna be a paddlin'.
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I have done soft field Ops in a transport category aircraft. It was a turboprop though.
 
Derg said:
I thought we'd be flying way more exciting stuff than we are in 2016. Yay, subsonic tube with engines… So exciting.
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While I agree with you in principal, I think we can conclude that flying cars and jet packs being made available to the public at large would lead to, shall we say, a less than optimal result.

FWIW, the 2nd jump seat on the 727 was pretty comfy.

Richman
 
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