TAA and the DC-9
And this fellow has some excellent TAA DC9 (and other a/c) Photographs on his website.
TRANS AUSTRALIA DC9 30 HBA RF 078 11.jpg photo - Rob Finlayson photos at pbase.com
TRANS AUSTRALIA DC9 30 HBA RF.jpg photo - Rob Finlayson photos at pbase.com
TRANS AUSTRALIA DC9 FLIGHT DECK HBA RF 94 1.jpg photo - Rob Finlayson photos at pbase.com
Almost as realistic as Aye Ess's paintings!
TRANS AUSTRALIA DC9 30 HBA RF 078 11.jpg photo - Rob Finlayson photos at pbase.com
TRANS AUSTRALIA DC9 30 HBA RF.jpg photo - Rob Finlayson photos at pbase.com
TRANS AUSTRALIA DC9 FLIGHT DECK HBA RF 94 1.jpg photo - Rob Finlayson photos at pbase.com
Almost as realistic as Aye Ess's paintings!
Last edited by Al E. Vator; 29th May 2012 at 08:13.
Getting silly now:
About that marginally exaggerated Rate of Climb:
http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h6...C9-TAA2004.jpg
http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h6...C9-TAA2001.jpg
http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h6...C9-TAA2005.jpg
About that marginally exaggerated Rate of Climb:
http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h6...C9-TAA2004.jpg
http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h6...C9-TAA2001.jpg
http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h6...C9-TAA2005.jpg
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Brilliant thread.
A fellow DC-9 driver sent me the link to this thread. I owe him a crate of whatever tipple he fancies, what a great read!
I've been lucky enough to fly the DC-9 in 5 variants (-14, -32, -34CF, -82 and -83 in that very order believe it or not!) and it's been a torrid love affair throughout. The Baby Nine was an awe-inspiring little rocket, the sort of plane that you'd find yourself flying from the aft toilet on your first few flights, so far behind her were you! I actually flew serial number 4 as recently as 2009. She is permanently grounded now, sadly.
The -32 was perhaps the best handling one, perfect in every flight regime and a little more docile than the -14 (well, as docile as a DC-9 can be!). My experience of the -34CF was brief, just some training and 4 sectors freelance helping out a fellow operator that was short of crew. She had -17 engines! We took off empty from Dar-es-Salaam and had to vectored well west of our intended route at first because the 737-700 in front couldn't keep his rate of climb high enough to stay above and ahead of us, causing ATC some consternation. We still beat the 737 into Nairobi despite being initially vectored almost 20 miles west of our intended track, having taken off about 3 minutes behind him.
In my opinion, the MD-80 series took everything that was great about the older DC-9's and enhanced it all for us with the fancy autopilot/autothrottle system, as well as the extra poke from the bigger engines.
And what a handsome family of airplanes...
I've also flown the 732 and 733. No disrespect to Boeing, but for me the DC-9 is a better aircraft from a pilot's point of view. Love it!
I've been lucky enough to fly the DC-9 in 5 variants (-14, -32, -34CF, -82 and -83 in that very order believe it or not!) and it's been a torrid love affair throughout. The Baby Nine was an awe-inspiring little rocket, the sort of plane that you'd find yourself flying from the aft toilet on your first few flights, so far behind her were you! I actually flew serial number 4 as recently as 2009. She is permanently grounded now, sadly.
The -32 was perhaps the best handling one, perfect in every flight regime and a little more docile than the -14 (well, as docile as a DC-9 can be!). My experience of the -34CF was brief, just some training and 4 sectors freelance helping out a fellow operator that was short of crew. She had -17 engines! We took off empty from Dar-es-Salaam and had to vectored well west of our intended route at first because the 737-700 in front couldn't keep his rate of climb high enough to stay above and ahead of us, causing ATC some consternation. We still beat the 737 into Nairobi despite being initially vectored almost 20 miles west of our intended track, having taken off about 3 minutes behind him.
In my opinion, the MD-80 series took everything that was great about the older DC-9's and enhanced it all for us with the fancy autopilot/autothrottle system, as well as the extra poke from the bigger engines.
And what a handsome family of airplanes...
I've also flown the 732 and 733. No disrespect to Boeing, but for me the DC-9 is a better aircraft from a pilot's point of view. Love it!
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God Bless you. Few of us know the pleasure of the 9.
flew it for 10 years...then went to the 737...what a piece of crap compared to the 9.
I actually feel sorry for airline pilots who have never flown the 9 ( and yes, the 30 series is my fave)
for years I had heard it was the last pilot's airliner...and now I understand.
our boss when I got hired addressed our new hire class and said something like...I know some of you guys like boeing, but I like the rocket
the rocket being the 9.
God Bless you. Few of us know the pleasure of the 9.
flew it for 10 years...then went to the 737...what a piece of crap compared to the 9.
I actually feel sorry for airline pilots who have never flown the 9 ( and yes, the 30 series is my fave)
for years I had heard it was the last pilot's airliner...and now I understand.
our boss when I got hired addressed our new hire class and said something like...I know some of you guys like boeing, but I like the rocket
the rocket being the 9.
Aye Ess - a brilliant, atmospheric painting.
You're going to kill me for saying this, but CZA was the only DC-9 in the Ansett fleet to have three pitots on the upper nose, just visible in the photo (the centre one is further aft, close to the windscreen). Harder to see, but it also had an extra set of spoiler panels, which were riveted shut....
You're going to kill me for saying this, but CZA was the only DC-9 in the Ansett fleet to have three pitots on the upper nose, just visible in the photo (the centre one is further aft, close to the windscreen). Harder to see, but it also had an extra set of spoiler panels, which were riveted shut....
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Thanks Dora-9....I used to fly the TAA (Australian Airlines) DC9 and in the ground school we did hear stories of the mystical 3rd pitot tube,which went the same way as the DC9 flight engineers. Anyhow,the painting sold a while ago to a lady who just liked the art and I don't think would even know the difference between a pitot tube and a pilot tube.
Here's another painting,bought by an ex Ansett DC9 drver...
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Here's another painting,bought by an ex Ansett DC9 drver...
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Hi Aye Ess:
I think it was the only DC-9 of the 24 in Oz to have this feature, but I can't remember what it was for.
Great paintings!
I think it was the only DC-9 of the 24 in Oz to have this feature, but I can't remember what it was for.
Great paintings!
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Stretching my memory back to the groundschool I think it was an 'alternate' (selectable) pitot in case of blockage of one of the others.....
One more painting...
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One more painting...
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