727 short video, with an unexpected but neat catch

Very few days go by where I don't think back fondly on my time on the 727. It was an amazing machine. I was developing a similar love of the DC-10 until my time on it was cut short.

People throw around terms like "pilot's airplane" a lot, but it really and truly was. It had very few, if any, bad habits. Once you came to terms with the fact that the quality of your landing was a bit like flipping a coin, it was easy to settle into a groove. I miss it dearly.

Those Ryan Bomar videos are great nostalgia.

 
Nice history of Air Micronesia and shots of their 727's in the early to mid 70's. I got to ride on both of the 727's and the DC-6B.

My dad flew for them in the late 70's and early 80's. He bid back to Houston before they went bankrupt and took early retirement after the strike rather than work for Lorenzo. He finished up his career flying corporate 727's all over the world. He is now 80 years old and still flys his Cessna 140.

 
Thanks for sharing that video of Air Micronesia. As a college student, I rode an Air Mike 727 from Honolulu to Johnston Atoll to Majuro in 1983. Before the take-off from Johnston, I got invited up to sit in the cockpit jumpseat!!! It was amazing. I asked if I could come back for a landing, but the captain said he wanted to give someone else a chance. Those were the days!

I was in Majuro for ten months as a volunteer high school teacher. I used to go to the airport for entertainment, or to meet people coming into our school. One time, when a flight landed, the Harlem Globetrotters came off the plane to stretch their legs. They had been playing an exhibition game in Guam, and were on their way back to the States. Another time, a B-25 landed there en route from Hawaii to a museum in Australia.

Another volunteer teacher and I made friends with an Air Marshall Islands captain who lived in Majuro, and flew the local runs to Kwajalien, and to some of the smaller outer islands. He was a ham radio operator, too, and he would talk to us "aeronautical mobile" when we were back at the school.

Fun times.
 
erice said:
Thanks for sharing that video of Air Micronesia. As a college student, I rode an Air Mike 727 from Honolulu to Johnston Atoll to Majuro in 1983. Before the take-off from Johnston, I got invited up to sit in the cockpit jumpseat!!! It was amazing. I asked if I could come back for a landing, but the captain said he wanted to give someone else a chance. Those were the days!

I was in Majuro for ten months as a volunteer high school teacher. I used to go to the airport for entertainment, or to meet people coming into our school. One time, when a flight landed, the Harlem Globetrotters came off the plane to stretch their legs. They had been playing an exhibition game in Guam, and were on their way back to the States. Another time, a B-25 landed there en route from Hawaii to a museum in Australia.

Another volunteer teacher and I made friends with an Air Marshall Islands captain who lived in Majuro, and flew the local runs to Kwajalien, and to some of the smaller outer islands. He was a ham radio operator, too, and he would talk to us "aeronautical mobile" when we were back at the school.

Fun times.
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Those were the days. Being the Captain’s son I got to ride the jump seat quite a lot. I even got the ride it on the DC-6B. One nice thing on the older 727’s out there were the 6 seats for the nonrev passengers in the forward freight area. The islanders in the back did not always bath regularly..
 
This is what the first AirMic 727 turned into.

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I see where that UPS MD-11 footage up-thread showed a "smoky" GA. Perhaps you'd like to see this picture of a time when "smoky" was in fact smokey vs the little girly, tree-hugger poofies coming from that UPS MD-11. The proper way to turn dead dinosaurs into noise...lots of noise. The picture is iconic among Widgetheads of a certain age. Enjoy:

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Delta-Air-Lines/Convair-880-(22-2)/0004414/L/
 
The 727 will likely always be my favorite plane. Rode on many United 727-200s and at least one -100 back in the 90s. I agree spotting has gotten way more boring in the last few years, and will probably be even more so in the years to come. Airlines retire types with slightly upgraded versions of the same type, lots of merging and folding airlines with no new airlines popping up, airlines not already serving "mega hubs" have trouble starting new service because the legacy carriers burry them, and smaller airports that let you get closer to the planes are only connected to hubs by RJs and get little or no mainline service sans maybe a bi-weekly Allegiant flight. Boring, and getting more boring fast. It was not even a year ago I would sit up in the ramp tower and watch a big string of UA widebody 777s and 767s push back from gates 80-86 and taxi out to the 28s all at once for HNL, LIH, KOA, and OGG. It was fun to watch them get handed off to tower one after the other with various "Aloha's" and "Maholo's". Now, those are 737-800s that you can only tell are Hawaii bound if they maybe use the 28s. No where near as impressive. But, you know, "synergies".

Autothrust Blue said:
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Millbrae looks so bare in that picture which must have been early80s when the "South Terminal" was stll the international term at SFO and Pan Am still had the ex-National DC-10s flying around. Most of the grassy areas in the background are now houses and windy narrow streets. That 727 was at gate 36 which is now 36A/B btw, you've probably parked your mighty prop-jet there.
 
bafanguy said:
I see where that UPS MD-11 footage up-thread showed a "smoky" GA. Perhaps you'd like to see this picture of a time when "smoky" was in fact smokey vs the little girly, tree-hugger poofies coming from that UPS MD-11. The proper way to turn dead dinosaurs into noise...lots of noise. The picture is iconic among Widgetheads of a certain age. Enjoy:

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Delta-Air-Lines/Convair-880-(22-2)/0004414/L/
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When I was in Atlanta several years ago, being told I wasn't worthy of a second set of buttons on my jacket, they explained that the Captain of that picture was pissed that the gear doors weren't closed before that picture was taken.


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Springer said:
Having flown the T-37, T-38, F-4, A-37, B-727-100/200 (13 yrs), DC-10, A-320/319, I am curious as to how you came to that conclusion?
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Purely on looks, legacy... looks... noise... looks... analog... looks... noise, looks.

In THAT order. Having flown none of the above.
 
I forgot rear air stairs... that goes in the middle there somewhere.


Also hush kits are a personification of what's wrong with everything in modern society
 
Of course I was 5, so my memory may be off. But, I believe the 727 was the first plane I ever flew on. Started me down this path
 
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