The even older 707 is still being used. Many old 707s are military refueling planes. John Travolta bought an old 707 and flies it regularly. He parks it in his front yard..lol
Did you know that FedEx and UPS are merging?
(They are going to call the new company “FedUP”.)
Sorry - but I couldn’t resist.
I’ll always have a soft spot in my heart for that bird. The first flight of my life was aboard a PSA 727 from San Francisco to San Diego on my way to Navy Boot Camp in 1976.
The 727 is the plane with the aft airstair that could be deployed in flight. DB Cooper used to parachute out of.
Ancient or not, they were comfortable planes from a passenger perspective, roomy, smooth, not loud or abrupt or cramped as many of it’s more modern replacements often are. I started flying frequently for business in the late eighties and experienced the domestic short and medium haul transition firsthand, from 727 to 737 and the plane I loved to hate, would actually try to book to avoid, the Fokker F-28. Supremely uncomfortable. I’d rather be on a smaller SAAB turboprop than those things. Fumes, odd noises and motions while in flight, loud, cramped, nothing to like other than getting out of it at your destination.
I guess Auburn Calloway is sad. Remember him? He would have been an Obama supporter but his biggest fan was OBL.
Terrific plane.
“Wilson!”
I vividly remember my first flight on a 727. We were coming in for a landing at the old Washington D.C. airport when I noticed on our approach pattern that we were flying parallel to the runway and not too far from it.
Just as we cleared the end of the runway, the pilot did a wing-over sharp turn and brought us down on the center line of the runway. (Don’t know if I described this right in technical flying terms).
It wasn’t a maneuver I expected from a passenger jet, seemed more like he was flying it as a fighter/bomber. I enjoyed the thrill after I caught my breath.
bye bye Boeing 727