At the risk of thread drift....
WHBM Wrote:
The first One-Elevens were marginally over this, and not sold in the USA, but it was redesigned as the One-Eleven 400 that came just inside the limit,
have to disagree - the intial One-Elevens were series 200 and MTOW was originally 73500lbs later 78500lbs (up to 79 pax) and was operated by Braniff, Mohawk and Aloha in the US. The later -400 was 92000lbs, up to 89pax.
Back to Tridents.... Spent a very enjoyable week or so in 1982 with British Airways as part of my ATCO training, 'flying' the Trident 3 Cockpit Procedures Trainer. That was until we broke it
So we rounded off the time getting up at oh-dark hundred to use the full flight sim at Cranebank
Also made a number of line-trips on the jumpseat - a late evening Bovingdon Snatch onto 10L was certainly interesting as was watching the flourish with which the crews operated the autopilot.
DD