Jack
I didn't fly it but from a weight & balance point of view it was a dream. Having such a short fuselage on such a big wing meant you had to do something really outrageous to get it out of trim. The great irony is that Qantas bought them to serve the NZ capital after Air NZ disposed of their DC-8s. When the 767 came along the SPs were used on trans-Pacific routes for which they were designed. There was an even greater irony after they were no longer required on the Pacific. For a time Qantas was using what was once the world's longest range airliner on Brisbane-Sydney-Brisbane shuttles (approx 1 hour).
Rgds