I did a jumpseat ride in a F28 years ago and was blown away with it. Turning final onto the ILS doing about 270kts the Captain turned around and said watch this (F/O flying) - out came the speedbrake - speed bleed off, all stabalised and landed took the first high speed into BNE. After landing his comment was -'try that in a 737'! Never seen a more effective speedbrake on an jet in my life - it was like driving on the freeway and pulling on a handbrake in a car.
Awesome machine in it's day - would have been a great first jet to cut your teeth on.