Posted on 03/03/2016 2:29:36 PM PST by SZonian
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This article is about a 727, but anyway, the 747's I've flown on, always in coach, had a 3-6-3 seating arrangement with two isles. They're pretty comfortable if you can have only 2 in the 3 seats. If it's not crowded you can bed down pretty well in the 6 seats in the middle.
Nowadays most planes are usually packed and so not so comfortable.
The 727's had a 2-3 seating arrangement. They were almost always packed and I always ended up in the middle seat between two 300 pounders - miserable.
I know it is, was just sayin
The first airplane I ever flew on was a 727 the day I joined the Air Force.
“It flew 64,495 hours”
Wheels up for over seven years.
I just looked at the pictures and it has 3-3 seating. No wonder I always had to sit between the fatties. Some plane that I used to fly on though, had 2-3 seating.
I once flew a 747 from NY to LAX, was in my USAF Sgt uniform. The bird left NY late because of a problem, there were 28 passengers on it. The stewardess came up and told me that there were free drinks in the lounge in the back of the plane, which had a piano bar back then.
I shared chat and drinks with a Tennessee Vol babe for a couple of hours.
What a good memory.
I flew on some Red and Whites in and out of Vegas.
Early ‘80’s.
Me either. I haven't really flown all that much, and much of that was short haul except one trip nonstop from Houston to Germany. Don't fly anymore. Not willing to subject myself to TSA. I either drive or ride my Goldwing. The Goldwing is more fun anyway.
I flew to Ireland twice a year for business, for several years. The Irish Trade Board picked up the cost from Logan or Kennedy on Aer Lingus. Always a 747, their livery was striking, every shade of green inside, lovely female flight attendants decked out to match. I enjoyed the 747, it had room to roam after reaching cruising altitude. Duty-free shop, three galleys, bar up the spiral staircase. Being welcomed to Dublin in Gaelic was a nice finishing touch. Always a small crowd gathered at the end of the runway, they were hobbyists I was told, liked to spot planes and the 747 was a perennial favorite. This was early to mid-nineties.
Of all the planes I’ve flown, I loved flying on 727s.
The first airplane I ever flew on was a 727 the day I joined the Air Force.
Mine too: LAX to San Antonio in August. Went from Cool to Hot and Humid as Hell w screaming Sgts. in five minutes.
Good thing was that as we were waiting in LAX, Annette Funicello walked by and gave all fifty of us a smile. That was in 1968.
I have as well...
Dreamland anyone?
...and weird looking things.
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