Retro 737-900

Brian29

Brian29

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Just saw this plane pull up to my gate to take me home. Pretty cool lookin airplane.
 
I really like the retro schemes airlines are doing, Alitalia rolled one out recently that looks superb, and the UA A320 with the seventies red white and blue "stars and bars" is outstanding. They should paint the whole fleet like that.
 
I found it before. Here is a pic I took. I forget what airport I was at. I think is was at AUS.
 

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I got curious about the performance of the 707 vs. 737NG, and OMG! Those engines were nothing but a noisy flaming hole on the bottom of the wing.

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                    707-320         737-900ER
                 ------------     ------------
Passengers         147 - 202       174 - 215
MTOW                 333,600 lb      187,700 lb
Range (max load)       3,735 NM        2,700 NM
Fuel Capacity         23,820 US gal    7,837 US gal
 
I think I rode that plane from EWR-BQN (or the other way around, I can't remember) a couple years ago.
 
X-Forces said:
American not to be outdone!

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They're no longer a viable airline in my book...They got rid of the A300's I used to take down to PR as a kid. Most of my early aviation memories were in AA A300s (My first was in a TWA 747-100), who cares if the planes made no financial sense....We're talking memories here :)
 
I won't let Canada be left out of the mix ;)

Air Canada Retro, in their 30's Trans Canada Airlines livery

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Air Canada, Alaska, Aloha, American, Continental, Delta, Mexicana, Southwest, US Airways, and World Airways are all North American carriers that have done Retrojets.

ATN_Pilot, Delta has already done it. ;) Along with a '96 Atlanta Olympics special livery, N102DA wore this livery for Delta's 75th:
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Then was painted back into the Widget scheme to be retired after the fleet had gone Wavy Gravy.
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Keep in mind it had been re-painted into the newest Delta Livery prior to Delta's 75th anniversary and the first of it's two retro liveries, so this was really a Widget retrojet.
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:)
 
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