pax britanica
1st Mar 2009, 07:02
Being old enough to remember the heyday of these wonderful machines I wondered if any pilots from that era recall if there was the same diversity of opinion regardin the 707 and the Diesel 8 ( whay was it called that-smokey or just a bit agricultural??) that sometimes arises between Boeing and Airbus pilots today.
I realise the degree of difference was not the same as the A v B thing but I imagine there were preferences.
From an enthusiast/pax point of view I always seemed to prefer the DC8 although perhaps thatwas because there were not so many at LHR in those days -70s seemed to predominate.
I had a friend who flew 707s and he said they were pretty nice to fly much of the time but a terrible handful if you lost an engine at the wrong time and heavy going trying to flya holding pattern manually on way into LHR but he was very proud of his time on them.
Anyway welcome views if anyone has 5 mins to spare also fellow pax/enthusiast comments on preferences
PB
I realise the degree of difference was not the same as the A v B thing but I imagine there were preferences.
From an enthusiast/pax point of view I always seemed to prefer the DC8 although perhaps thatwas because there were not so many at LHR in those days -70s seemed to predominate.
I had a friend who flew 707s and he said they were pretty nice to fly much of the time but a terrible handful if you lost an engine at the wrong time and heavy going trying to flya holding pattern manually on way into LHR but he was very proud of his time on them.
Anyway welcome views if anyone has 5 mins to spare also fellow pax/enthusiast comments on preferences
PB