Love this thread, flew the DC9 and MD83 for fifteen years out of the Caribbean. Spent three years on the 707, we had a pair of ex Qantas 707's. We never referred to our Boeings as 707's, we used to call them 138's or 227's or 351's. I do get to fly to your shores now with my new employer on a French product into BNE, MEL and SYD.