Last 727 flght for AAE
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Last 727 flght for AAE
the 31st of December was the last flight of the 727 with AAE. VH-VLI (aka vh-ana) has now been removed from service and is awaiting sale as is VH-VLH . This now leave VH-DHE as the last remaining operational aircraft left on the register
RIP three holer!!!
RIP three holer!!!
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Though I might be a few years from doing my last circuit, the postings here and on the DC9 blog, make me grateful that these fine A/C won't be forgotten by you young turks. Dinosaurs they may be now, compared to what you fellas fly, but they were bloody beautiful A/C and a privilege to fly them.
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you young turks
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Maybe a good opportunity for HeavyLift to expand their fleet of JT8 powered aircraft
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Skystar, merely a term of endearment!. I refuse to use the term "guys" I am not a yank, a young Australian to me is a bloke or a young turk, females are chicks or sheila's, not broads. If you want to be a young Pom feel free! Forgive me, Its my age!
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All the DC-9 stuff on another thread has made me all nostalgic about the 727 as well.
Remember once during the time CBR was closed due an ATC strike and there were no overnight aircraft so had to ferry up my beloved 727 to CBR early in the morning. As I approached SBG there was a much slower company a/c ahead (yes, a 737-also for CBR) and ATC asked for flow reasons could we keep the speed up and expect a vector direct to Church Creek from Wee Jasper (I think).
So we got a vector past the little Slug and climbed at 390-increasing to 410, cruised at .88, descended 390 slowing to 350 at 15 miles. Got to CBR way before the Slug. Much the same technique used to get a chock-to-chock ADL-MEL time of 52 minutes a month or two before. That was as a Captain.
Years before had flown the same ADL-MEL profile as an F/O with Jack Curtis in the LHS....in a real hurry to catch his commute home to SYD. as we approached MEL for a left pattern RW 34 ATC were giving vectors and speed instructions and Jack wasn't following them. I started relaying them to him but it didn't really work and we flashed over MEL at about 320 kts and they cleared us for a right pattern 34 back over EN. Turns out Jack's earpiece had fallen out. ATC were a bit perplexed about what we'd been up to....as he sprinted off the 727 for the SYD flight Jack just said "Can you call the tower and square that away?....thanks mate". Be grounded forever now by CASA or the FOQA watchers.
Somehow need to get a 727 painted n either AN or TN colours parked at either MEL or SYD just to remind one and all of a wonderful era, soon to finish for ever.
Remember once during the time CBR was closed due an ATC strike and there were no overnight aircraft so had to ferry up my beloved 727 to CBR early in the morning. As I approached SBG there was a much slower company a/c ahead (yes, a 737-also for CBR) and ATC asked for flow reasons could we keep the speed up and expect a vector direct to Church Creek from Wee Jasper (I think).
So we got a vector past the little Slug and climbed at 390-increasing to 410, cruised at .88, descended 390 slowing to 350 at 15 miles. Got to CBR way before the Slug. Much the same technique used to get a chock-to-chock ADL-MEL time of 52 minutes a month or two before. That was as a Captain.
Years before had flown the same ADL-MEL profile as an F/O with Jack Curtis in the LHS....in a real hurry to catch his commute home to SYD. as we approached MEL for a left pattern RW 34 ATC were giving vectors and speed instructions and Jack wasn't following them. I started relaying them to him but it didn't really work and we flashed over MEL at about 320 kts and they cleared us for a right pattern 34 back over EN. Turns out Jack's earpiece had fallen out. ATC were a bit perplexed about what we'd been up to....as he sprinted off the 727 for the SYD flight Jack just said "Can you call the tower and square that away?....thanks mate". Be grounded forever now by CASA or the FOQA watchers.
Somehow need to get a 727 painted n either AN or TN colours parked at either MEL or SYD just to remind one and all of a wonderful era, soon to finish for ever.
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And as progress and technology advances, I hope us 'young Turks' (and not as young turks) can look back upon our 73, 777, 330 or what have you and get all nostalgic ourselves.
As for the B727, I have a friend who will swear on his grave that he once saw shock waves forming on the leading edge. That would of been cool
As for the B727, I have a friend who will swear on his grave that he once saw shock waves forming on the leading edge. That would of been cool
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Nothing like the sound of the old girls leaving LST at 3am on a still winters night 
Might as well cancel this years Perth trip to see the old girl in daylight
Pic of VLI in Perth in 07 as I can seem to add it here.
Flickr Photo Download: IMG_1302
Might as well cancel this years Perth trip to see the old girl in daylight
Pic of VLI in Perth in 07 as I can seem to add it here.
Flickr Photo Download: IMG_1302
As for the B727, I have a friend who will swear on his grave that he once saw shock waves forming on the leading edge. That would of been cool
The 727 will always be my favourite, my initial command and also the nicest handling aircraft I've ever flown. Like all thoughbreds though, it would bite if you were sloppy in speed and sink control, especially approaching the flare. I've done my worst and best landings in that plane. It was built like a brick outhouse with not only a forward and aft mainspar but a keel beam like a ship. The cockpit was battleship grey, no carpet and rivets on the floor like something from the Clyde Shipyard. Fast in the climb and cruise it was maybe a little underpowered on a hot day out of Alice, especially with the LR version operating at 89,409kg MAXTOW with the Dash 15's. Funny that I can remember these figures after all this time, yet had trouble with my ex-wifes birthday! (maybe that's why she is my ex). A handfull with manual reversion, having hydraulic pumps only on 1 and 2 engine. With only number 3 running you worked hard to get it back in the sim. I have read the DC-9 thread with great interest and sadly went F27 to 737 and never flew it. It also sounds like a real aeroplane. How lucky I have been to fly at least one real classic and how sad the current generation have missed these wonderfull beasts. I fly 'all glass' these days like everyone else, but something is missing, todays aeoplanes are quite boring.
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Don't be bored, George... I hear what you say, we all do and we all agree, but life goes on and there are some good airplanes today that we can all enjoy just as much as the old classics and they will in time become classics in their own right!
The A320-200 is one such airplane.
The 737-300 is another.
The A320-200 is one such airplane.
The 737-300 is another.