Boeing 757
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Do I remember correctly the BA 757's doing crew familiarisation on UK routes in 81/82 ? That plane was always good for a powerful takeoff.
Do I remember correctly the BA 757's doing crew familiarisation on UK routes in 81/82 ? That plane was always good for a powerful takeoff.
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The 757 and 767 didn't fly until late-ish '81.
An Eastern Airlines 757 and a Delta 767 appeared at Farnborough '82 and no doubt did some demo flights in the UK.
An Eastern Airlines 757 and a Delta 767 appeared at Farnborough '82 and no doubt did some demo flights in the UK.
EIS for Delta 767 was about 2Q82; 757 about the same time.
First PW 767 delivered was N606UA to United on 19/08/1982. First GE aircraft was N102DA to Delta on 25/10/1982.
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India Four Two, you misread that one G-BIKE is a Piper Arrow.
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Coming back from Rio on a business trip and flying on a Varig or Vasp DC10-30 arriving at LHR around 1130. Rang the wife in MAN saying I was OK and back in country to be told that MAN was closed and all flights canx. Still I boarded a BA B757 and off we flew to MAN. Arrived about 40 minutes later in foggy weather and on disembarking the a/c was handed a CAT111 tie for one of the first B757 cat111 landings in November 1984. I must admit I did just see the runway as the wheels touched. Being an avionics engineer, this was my very first Cat111 landing in anger so to speak, and I was very impressed with the smoothness of the aircarft. I had been on the flight deck of L1011, DC10-30 and A300-B4 aircaraft when cat111 landings had been carried out, but as stated earlier, this was the first in anger. I have only ever, to my knowledge been on a single other which was a LH CRJ200 coming back into MAN and carried out a Cat111 landing.
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We were very proud of the Electric Jet when it first arrived in BA and spent most of our time showing it off to numerous jump seat occupants from all over the airline and aviation world.
I remember the first time we took one into (still Soviet) Moscow on service, thinking as I got off:
That aeroplane probably has more computer power on board than the whole of Moscow put together. Shouldn't we lock it up or something?
But it was still there in the morning, a guard fast asleep against the nosewheel.......
Happy Days! The first, and only, time I was ever able to switch on the last word in brand new ground-breaking electronic technology and use it fully,
without asking the kids how.
I remember the first time we took one into (still Soviet) Moscow on service, thinking as I got off:
That aeroplane probably has more computer power on board than the whole of Moscow put together. Shouldn't we lock it up or something?
But it was still there in the morning, a guard fast asleep against the nosewheel.......
Happy Days! The first, and only, time I was ever able to switch on the last word in brand new ground-breaking electronic technology and use it fully,
without asking the kids how.
I flew as a passenger in a BA 757 from Edinburgh to Heathrow in about April 83. My colleague and I had been visiting what was then Ferranti in Edinburgh, and were studying the possible introduction of colour CRT displays into helicopters. As a result of a polite request, and a business card, to a FA, we spent almost the entire flight to Heathrow in the cockpit discussing the then new EFIS and EICAS systems with the crew. It was supposed to have been a Trident on the shuttle, but the 757 turned up instead. There were 4 captains on the flight deck, as I recall. One of the most memorable aspects of the flight was a take-off run of around 25 seconds, unlike the Trident. Those were the days
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India Four Two, you misread that one G-BIKE is a Piper Arrow.
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" An Eastern Airlines 757 and a Delta 767 appeared at Farnborough '82 and no doubt did some demo flights in the UK
They did indeed and, using my charm and diplomacy, I managed to get a look around both.
The 767 found it's way to Luton, but nowhere further North of course, due to Britannia being the first operator in the UK.
They did indeed and, using my charm and diplomacy, I managed to get a look around both.
The 767 found it's way to Luton, but nowhere further North of course, due to Britannia being the first operator in the UK.
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Shaggy Sheep Driver, it was not BA who decided not to take the registration of G-BIKE.
We were told that Raleigh Industries had pre reserved it, for obvious reasons, so we had to miss it out.
We were told that Raleigh Industries had pre reserved it, for obvious reasons, so we had to miss it out.
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First BA one I saw in service was at MAN on 22nd Feb 1983 when G-BIKB was the first 757 to visit on a proving flight. Seemed astonishingly quiet at the time, though now seems noisy compared to the 787.
As a slight distraction anyone here doesn't feel that the wonderful 75 is about as handsome as any airliner built , and such take off performance -even as Pax, it must have been a lot of fun up front especially with the two RRs making that wonderful close to flat out noise..
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Don't think they had much choice in missing it out - according to the CAA's G-INFO site it was first registered on 18th April 1980, so nearly 3 years ahead of the BA 757s arriving.
Got a ride in the Eastern Airlines one at Farnborough when it appeared there (82?). The Boeing company don't do flying displays, so it did customer demos, departing and arriving back during the display. Went to Lands End and back; no alcohol served on board.
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As a slight distraction anyone here doesn't feel that the wonderful 75 is about as handsome as any airliner built , and such take off performance -even as Pax, it must have been a lot of fun up front especially with the two RRs making that wonderful close to flat out noise..
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A truly memorable ride due to the hospitality of the flightdeck crew, such a shame that I won't get the experience again.