JANET 737 photo on FAA FB Page
 

To those who have flown in/out of McCarran International be it on a casino, lads long weekend or Red Flag...one probably taxies past a discrete airline terminal.

As yesterday the FAA recognized 48 years since the first flight of the 737 on their FB...the very photo they put up is a DoD/ Dept of AF contracted JANET 737

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g2...pshjbdrwtt.jpg

Could they not have put a pic of a Southwest Airlines or other airline pic?

Cheers

Or Rat 55 perhaps...

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/...ia4reqzvyb.jpg

Perhaps the reason they showed that aircraft Janet was because EG&G's 'Special Projects' Janet fleet used some of the oldest 737s still around, until they 'upgraded' to ex-Air China -600s about 5 years ago?

Shuttling workers between McCarran and Dreamland and other locations can't have been that demanding on the old things....

I'd be more concerned by the big long blackstreak out of the nose bay myself....

It required a pic of the old skinny engine pods to highlight the FAA's point about longevity etc. Almost every 737 in airline service for the last two decades has modern fan engines because the government doesn't pay for their fuel.

Alien blood is sooooooo difficult to clean up.

Discrete but not exactly secret. I don't think the FAA need to worry about blacked out Suburbans just yet.