Yeh me too (-30srs was the fleet) although I wasn't on it for
long (227 hrs). It always struck me as a "leather jacket and
moll" machine with its 280kt slat limit among other things. I
went 727 after that (the then "collar and tie" fleet) and had
to learn how to be a gentleman.
All us Dizzy-9 guys who bidded to the 3-holer got a rollicking
from the 727 training guys because we were all a mad bunch
of petrolheads (well us FOs anyway!)
Below is one of the leather jacket fleet parked Melbourne Airport
in Oz with a "collar and tie" example taxying in the background.
In between is a F27-200 (20-ton dog whistle) which was my
previous fleet -
