alaskadrifter
Landing gear operator
Nulato in the 1900 was always sporting.
Almost cancelled, the Boeing 737 has endured 49 years
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The wall jumpseat? Used to ride those NWA 727s, was always fun.
ChasenSFO
hen teaser
Man, it's great seeing the way people used to think back then. Want to demonstrate the capabilities of your new large transport category jet? Roll it over a highly publicized fair over a major city. Find yourself in British Columbia with your prototype 737 to show off? Find a 4,000 foot grass strip and fly it in and out. SFO Airport too far from the city at rush hour? Build helipads around the Bay Area and land at the TWA gates. Fog and IFR canceling your helicopter flights? Build a transport hovercraft to keep serving Downtown San Francisco and Oakland via those same gates at SFO.
Sure, planes, relatively, crashed all the time. But that must have been a damn fun time to be flying.
The 737-200 has always been one of my favorite jets. I loved watching the reversers open on landing as a kid. From a flying perspective, a Part 91 you own the plane do what you want with it perspective that is, I see it as loud, smokey, and small enough to put around the sky a bit compared to bigger airliners while also being able to get into smaller airports As they're still around and relatively cheap, a dream of mine would be to have the money to get one restored and painted up in some airlines colors, fly the crap out of it in a display(well within it's structural limits of course), then donate it to a museum after that final flight. Better than the scrapyard.
Sure, planes, relatively, crashed all the time. But that must have been a damn fun time to be flying.
The 737-200 has always been one of my favorite jets. I loved watching the reversers open on landing as a kid. From a flying perspective, a Part 91 you own the plane do what you want with it perspective that is, I see it as loud, smokey, and small enough to put around the sky a bit compared to bigger airliners while also being able to get into smaller airports As they're still around and relatively cheap, a dream of mine would be to have the money to get one restored and painted up in some airlines colors, fly the crap out of it in a display(well within it's structural limits of course), then donate it to a museum after that final flight. Better than the scrapyard.
CFI A&P
Exploring the world one toilet at a time.
More than one Boeing has landed and departed from a non-paved surface.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/video...iraculous-plane-landing-on-new-orleans-levee/
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http://www.smithsonianmag.com/video...iraculous-plane-landing-on-new-orleans-levee/
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Used to ride on those all the time, and had a good few rides on the AF version, the T-43 Gator.
Interesting thing about the Gator, as a Navigator trainer aircraft with 10 student Navigator training panel/stations onboard; it was the only airplane that could be in 10 different places on earth at once, with only one of those being correct.
Screaming_Emu
Well-Known Member
This pilot does about 50/50. I don't think the kind people at Alaska tomorrow will let me drive, so I guess I'll just sleep in the back.
ChasenSFO
hen teaser
Didn't know much about the gator, a little digging around helped me find this. Very cool!
///AMG
Well-Known Member
Now that you mention it, same. I don't know when they started going away, but I remember that as a kid for some reason.
milleR
Well-Known Member
The nice thing on the 757 was being able to pull the seat cushion off the jumpseat behind the captain and using it as a backrest to sit lengthwise in the second seat. While I'd never begrudge a ride home, the 737 was second only to the E-145 in terms of "crap, we forgot the jumpseat" engineering.
Apophis
Resident Iconoclast
I LOVE the MD-11 jumpseat (the main one, not the small one behind the captain). It's like your own personal throne.
The thought that popped into my mind was the head Cylon that sat behind the two other Cylons and told them what to do. Except that i appreciated having a ride and kept my darned mouth shut and enjoyed the ride.
Apophis
Resident Iconoclast
The -200 is the only variant of the Guppy that captures my interest. I have fond memories flying on them inter-island back when Aloha Airlines still existed in the form of a passenger carrier. Good times.
"Schedule, pay, time off," in that order. The tube is just a tool that affords that.
JustinS
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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.
The level at which I define something unique is probably different than yours. I've seen the Rolls Royce engine tested aircraft at TUS, and the flying hospital L1011 at TUS. There are some planes that go through there that are a one off paint scheme or aircraft etc. To me that is UNIque if we're going to get all technical in the English language. There are definitely one of a kind planes that move through Tuscon that you will not find another copy of in its entirety (combination of aircraft type, paint scheme, and airframe configuration both internal and external). That's the nerdy plane spotter coming out in me right there... I did indeed mean unique. The DHC-7 is unique in it being probably the only ONE operating in the U.S., and the only ONE in that paint scheme. Making it UNIque.
I get what you're saying, but I did truly mean UNIque.
Baronman
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If the tube is a torture device it matters.
C40A so much better
-200 vs -800, the C-40 is quite popular. P-8 too for that matter
The AF didn't get to play when it came to those...I liked the old C-9Bs the C-40 replaced.
I loved the 12 min flight from Whidbey to McChord in the C9....-200 vs -800, the C-40 is quite popular. P-8 too for that matter
I liked the old C-9Bs the C-40 replaced.
Partial to C40A as is was my last loggie job in Development Programs. I had Airstairs and combi equipment on that one.
-700 with -800 wing and gear. Oddball
And the VR squadron job in the USN. Even though reserve, what a cush naval aviation gig.
They are all torture devices. No matter how much you like your job, work, is still a four letter word. When I was a kid, my mom washed my mouth out with soap for using other four letter words.