The B737-200 is in my books, a dangerous aircraft. It's slow, difficult to handle, and I don't know why Boeing can never get the 737 engines right; they went from being too small and too close to the ground, to flat, like a squashed toilet-roll tube.
Thanks for the tip
Skylark_air. For many, many years I worked down the back of -200's, and foolishly held them in some affection - little realising that I was in such peril! On take-off, they were certainly so noisy that coherent thought or worry about almost anything was beyond us. All of our pilots used to tell us what fun they were having, so I can now appreciate how they were covering up the truth in order to prevent us from excessive worry. What kind chaps they were.
