Posted on 09/18/2022 12:42:03 PM PDT by DFG
B-52s built how long ago are still flying?
Hmmm… DC3s are still flying commercial passengers.
Nice clean B757 with only 89,000 hrs on the airframe:
https://www.controller.com/listing/for-sale/215575675/1988-boeing-757-200-jet-aircraft
Takes a lickin’, keeps on tickin’
74 years old.
Buffalo air in Canada regularly flies C-46’s, DC-3’s and DC-4’s in commercial service. So I claim lazy journalism on this one.
CC
I flew C130s that were made in 1963 up until 2017. And those airframes were slammed to the ground on many short-field landings (called assault landings to us). I don’t think people really understand what goes into maintaining the airworthiness of these aircraft.
It’s not the years, it’s the hard mileage. That goes for people, too.
“Oldest passenger plane?” There 18 airworthy Ford Trimotors still around and at least three of them are carrying paying passengers. The last Trimotor was built in 1933!
Some of those are still in service. I flew on one in 1998. The stewardess told me she had a pilot's license and had flown the plane--the only stewardess I have ever met who had stick time in the plane in which she worked.
There are KC-135s built in the 60s still flying.
I used to love flying in those old seaplanes Chalk’s had before they got the turbo-prop Mallards.
Wife and I flew on a DC 3 in Mexico some years back…
We have B-52s being flown by the grandsons of the first, original pilots that flew them. In one case of which I am aware, the grandson is actually flying the exact, same tail numbered, aircraft. The B-52 is the Colt 1911 of the military aviation world... It just keeps on working.
No they weren't. They had only signed with EMI the year before, and had just released Queen II to terrible reviews. Then Sheer Heart Attack arrived in November and then they were on their way.
1967 or so rode in a C-47 of unknown age, piloted by the last, or one of the last, enlisted Marine pilots. He looked older than the plane, and might have been.
I’ve flown in a 39’ Fairchild. It was a beautiful thing.
Payments as low as $54,315 a month...tempting.
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