727 short video, with an unexpected but neat catch

So gloriously loud!!! Excuse my ignorance, but is that a special 747?

Cool bit of history. Ex-Flying Tigers. In fact, probably very recently ex in that video; due to the fact that it's still in the Flying Tigets paintjob, but has the titles erased.

For anyone in the know, did Fedex operate the former FT 747s at any time after acquiring FT? Or did FT operate on it's own certificate for awhile? Just curious of the 747 with titles erased flying, unless it was sold to someone else and just hadn't been repainted.....
 
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I think FedEx only flew them for a short time. They leased some out to Polar and I don't know who else and sold some off to other foreign cargo ops. They sold off all the DC 8s too. Didn't some of the 747s wind up in Marana and I think UPS bought one or two?
 
This video makes me sad. Because it's a reminder that there was once a time when there was more than two types of planes; stretched to the ultimate in order to fit multiple roles.

737 and A320, I'm looking right at you both. Borrrrrrring!

It was also a time when planes fell out of the sky at a rate of several per year. I'll take boring and safe.
 
This video makes me sad. Because it's a reminder that there was once a time when there was more than two types of planes; stretched to the ultimate in order to fit multiple roles.

737 and A320, I'm looking right at you both. Borrrrrrring!
I'm just sick of all the damn twins, period. Look at this silly bastard! haha
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It was also a time when planes fell out of the sky at a rate of several per year. I'll take boring and safe.

I was talking about the lack of creativity and taking risk in aviation manufacturing. Not safety. The 737 and 747 is from the 60's. Let's have a true replacement already. Let's stop stretching it to ad nauseum to save a nickel. Let's get a true 757 replacement. Maybe an updated sonic cruiser. SkyHarbor here in PHX is so boring to plane watch. You know why? Cause all you're pretty much guaranteed to see hour after hour is a CRJ, 737 and a A320. The Honda Civic's of aviation.

Boring. Back in the 80's you had 727,737,757, 767. MD-80's, MD-11's, L10-11's flying out of KPHX at regular intervals. Now if if it's a mainline flight, there are only two types of planes are really guaranteed out of here. Yawn.
 
I remember working the ramp in 1994 on a FedEx 747 charter from Seattle to Taipei. The colors were weird: solid purple tail with chrome body. It had FedEx painted above the windows on the hump. Most likely an ex Flying Tigers plane?
 
I remember working the ramp in 1994 on a FedEx 747 charter from Seattle to Taipei. The colors were weird: solid purple tail with chrome body. It had FedEx painted above the windows on the hump. Most likely an ex Flying Tigers plane?

That would be it. Neat piece of history you got to witness.
 
It was also a time when planes fell out of the sky at a rate of several per year. I'll take boring and safe.

Hey now, just because an airplane isn't boring, doesn't mean it's unsafe. I miss flying on DC-10s, L-1011s, 727s, etc. My first trip to Hawai'i in 1997 was on a Continental Airlines B747-200.

/Sigh........
 
That 727-100 tail skid is quite forward...

Anyone care to share with the max initial pitch until airborne was on the thing? Otherwise I figure it was touching the ground quite often.
 
Note the small FedEx logo at the front:
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Looks like only one got painted in full FedEx colors:
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I remember working the ramp in 1994 on a FedEx 747 charter from Seattle to Taipei. The colors were weird: solid purple tail with chrome body. It had FedEx painted above the windows on the hump. Most likely an ex Flying Tigers plane?
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