Originally Posted by
galaxy flyer
At 209,000, it must have been every bit the slug w grossed out D-9 powered early -200 was. I can't remember the gross on those were, but it wasn't pretty on a warm day at gross.
GF
Still better than the ex-Air France 727-200s with the -7 engines. Thank God I never had to fly one, but we almost leased one of them, until we found out that they had the -7 engines.
I can't imagine what a takeoff out of Denver on a summer day would have been like.