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Now up in the air: http://www.airliners.net/photo/Unite...-22/2787828/L/
Some lovely memories linked to the type, though interestingly in nearly 50 years of flying it was one of the least flown types (DC-9/MD80 was the commonest), but usually to more 'interesting' destinations.
Only flew the -100 once, a cockpit ride with AeroPeru from Lima to the fair city of Trujillo in '91. On lining up, two of the three holes obediently spun up to 97%, but the third got stuck on 83. FE leaned forward, knocked the glass, the dial jumped up to 90% and merrily off we went...
Last time was with Libyan Airlines from Kufra to Benghazi in '03, again up front most of the time with a very nice and friendly crew, my six year old daughter had her first cockpit ride then.
Some lovely memories linked to the type, though interestingly in nearly 50 years of flying it was one of the least flown types (DC-9/MD80 was the commonest), but usually to more 'interesting' destinations.
Only flew the -100 once, a cockpit ride with AeroPeru from Lima to the fair city of Trujillo in '91. On lining up, two of the three holes obediently spun up to 97%, but the third got stuck on 83. FE leaned forward, knocked the glass, the dial jumped up to 90% and merrily off we went...
Last time was with Libyan Airlines from Kufra to Benghazi in '03, again up front most of the time with a very nice and friendly crew, my six year old daughter had her first cockpit ride then.
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My only flight experience with the 727 was to Kerkyra airport on Corfu (CFU), and as it seemed to aproach with quite higher speed than I've experienced with other airliners, the landing was quite nerve wrecking as the strip on CFU ends quite absolute :-o
Needless to tell that I survived ;-)
Needless to tell that I survived ;-)
My only flight experience with the 727 was to Kerkyra airport on Corfu (CFU), and as it seemed to aproach with quite higher speed than I've experienced with other airliners, the landing was quite nerve wrecking as the strip on CFU ends quite absolute :-o
Needless to tell that I survived ;-)
Needless to tell that I survived ;-)
Flybiker7000, the airport, you mentioned, is the one involved with most 727 of my flights. Those landings in 35 coming from the sea can be quite nerve-ranking at first but then they can be quite fun.
Does anyone have a link to a video of the take-off and landing ? Unless i'm missing it, the links above only have a press conference at the museum and the shut-down of the engines post flight.
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Before the 727, the most successful civil airliner (in units sold) was the prewar DC-3; total airline orders prior to 07 Dec 1941 were approximately 800. Soon after Pearl Harbor all deliveries of airline-spec DC-3s were diverted to the USAAF or USN under C-49, C-50, C-52 etc. designations. Of course this continued alongside C-47 and R4D production contracts.
It wasn't until the 1970s that an airliner type reached and passed the 800 mark; that aircraft was the 727.
It wasn't until the 1970s that an airliner type reached and passed the 800 mark; that aircraft was the 727.
