Originally Posted by
S.o.S.
Rog747 Gets a Gold Star and is, officially, 'Best Boy' of the cabin, help yourself to a free drink from the bar.
LOL, Ta ever so, all just pure Aviation geek history -
I'll have a can of BA's BrewDog House Blend called
Speedbird OG Transatlantic IPA, which I recently sampled in Club Europe -
all rather nice.
Hartington
Your Aeroperu 727 was ex Lufthansa Boeing 727-30C c/n 19312
broken up LIM 6/94
OB-R-1141 dd 3/78 to Aeroperu
D-ABIU dd 5/67 to Lufthansa Ulm
I forgot to mention that the
Fokker F28 and F100/70 family had a drop down forward passenger entry door with stairs fitted.
Some F100 operators, such as Air Europe and British Midland Airways went for a conventional entry door with no stairs.
Airbus did plan for forward airstairs
as an option for the A320.
BCAL actually went for this option on their A320 order and had them fitted to at least five aircraft (Not delivered to BCAL)
Article and photos here as delivered to British Airways in 1988/1989.
BCAL/BA A320 airstairs
A BCAL ordered A320
Here are the new 737 MAX 8-200 stairs in operation in 2024, with no obvious difference to the
1967 737-200 design.
737M 8-200
737M 8-200
Airbus did plan for forward airstairs on the A320...
BCAL actually went for this option on their first A320s,
but no one else did....
Hence todays wait for 2 sets of steps to draw up, although I have to say that the Greeks are pretty swift, and they have 'steps on' PDQ at the Greek Island Holiday Airports..