Maybe you needed to get your eyes checked. Braniff I never had any DC-9's. They had BAC-111's and 727's. The BAC-111 had a similar configuration to a DC-9, but it was smaller. By today's standards it would be called a commuter jet
Posted on 05/02/2006 1:53:46 PM PDT by Yo-Yo
Thanks, that's pretty much what I suspected. I hope that they have hardpoints on the wings to actually carry some goods once they don't have to be as "stealthy".
You certainly sound right on track about the FUD theory and keeping dollars with the F-35 ! Just because they are both Lockheed Martin doesn't mean the newer project will not suffer at all . They're banking on those International sales for sure !!!
In the late 1960s when I was a young impressionable lad, I lived in Ft. Worth with my father who was a contractor at General Dynamics at the time. We lived in an apartment complex that was right on the approach path to a (the?) main runway to Love Field. We were so close that the first and tallest approach light and strobe tower was practically in our back yard.
I spent day after day watching Braniff DC-9s take off and land, as well as lots of other types of aircraft, both civilian and commercial.
It may be a child's-eye memory embellishing this, but I recall one particularly windy day when a low wing single engine light aircraft was making it's approach to Love Field. As I watched it come nearer, it was barely moving forward at all in the very strong and gusty headwind. As it passed where I was standing, I swear the aircraft slowed to a momentary hover as the pilot looked out his side window and waved at me before pushing the throttle forward to continue on to touchdown.
So if in my haste to post an article I have inadvertently offended those from the great community of Ft. Worth, I apologize. I will forever have very fond memories of Ft. Worth as the place where I acquired my love of aircraft that will stick with me for the rest of my life.
And Juck them if they can't take a Foke. ;^)
I do recall that the MV-22 Osprey had serious problems with it's titanium hydraulic lines being manufactured by a subcontractor with inferior grade titanium, causing many failures during testing, and an ongoing concern with the Osprey's hydraulics in general.
Maybe you needed to get your eyes checked. Braniff I never had any DC-9's. They had BAC-111's and 727's. The BAC-111 had a similar configuration to a DC-9, but it was smaller. By today's standards it would be called a commuter jet
Yeah, you're right, they were 727s. There was a stew who lived in the same apartment complex that hung around dad a lot (vbg) and she used to give me little styrofoam Braniff 727 toy gliders. They used a paperclip for a nose weight, and came in several fuselage colors.
I thought the "puppy" was dead; it seems to have more lives than a cat.
what do you think of the EF2000 is it any better ?
While not exactly on point, but very generally informative...Check this link out:
And under President Obama it will be redesigned to be a green-friendly gas/electric hybrid.
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