Originally Posted by
nigelhillpaul
Good evening wherever you all are,
I love the stories as my father was a flight engineer on the 707’s. I grew up into a dispatcher and only touched them before they went.
Does anyone out there still have any loadsheets, I’d love to add them to my collection.
I did have some from my time at BMA when we had three refurbed 707-320C's with 211Y seats for holiday charters from April 1982 to end of 1984 -
Although the MTOW was 151 tonnes we operated them to the MED and on SKI flights with a very reduced artificial MTOW and MLW's to enable much lower airport handling charges.
Condor did the same with their DC-10's
Flew on our 707's quite often in the jump seat.
The weights were 'normalised' when we did the USA and Canada TA flights and anything going West coast saw the 707 at Max weights (no shiny bits left on the gear struts) and no doubt a ton or two extra in the tanks for 'mum'