Posted on 03/02/2016 10:36:45 AM PST by RckyRaCoCo
The Museum of Flight is in the final countdown of finishing a 25-year effort restoring the historic, first Boeing 727 and flying it to the Museum for permanent exhibition.
(Excerpt) Read more at museumofflight.org ...
http://livestream.com/museumofflight/events/4899240
I had over 13 years airline service flying the tri-motor. Enjoyed it immensely.
Cool! You know looking at the live feed, United really should go back to the old school livery, imo.
Agreed, that was one of the nicest old school liveries in the business.
Me not like the high-mounted horizontal stabilizers in the tail. Beware the jack screws!
Oh, that takeoff was awesome! Thank you for posting this!
Now the live feed for the landing is on!
i just love watching old machinery work again
Beautiful landing!
Too bad they can’t keep flying it for awhile after all that work.
if they can find the proto 737 and Dash 80 next to it that would make a heck of a pic!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCDvcSe088k
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The takeoff. Looks like they put a little coal in the fuel.
DB Cooper’s favorite jump plane.
I absolutely hate the new American livery. I understand with new composite construction that's going to be a thing of the past...but why not use chrome paint?(heh)
United-Tulip
Delta-Widget
Braniff-ummm....everything
Ah, the good old days.
That plane had so many moving parts in the wing it looked like it was alive.
Those Pratt and Whitney JT8Ds probably could run on coal, diesel or 7-11 gas.
Bob Bogash has an excellent site with a 727 page http://www.rbogash.com/ual727tx.htm and lots of info and vids about the 737 prototype http://www.rbogash.com/index.html
Scroll down for four videos about it.
I remember vividly my first flight in the 727. On the take off the pilot put the plane into what seemed like an impossible vertical angle, pushing everyone back into their seats like no 707 I’d even been in.
I just knew that the plane had to stall out and crash, so when he nosed it back down and we had what seemed like a moment of weightlessness I felt my stomach coming up. Prayer seemed like a good option since I didn’t think I could get to the cabin to stop the madman at the controls. But the plane leveled out and I settled back uneasily for the rest of the flight.
When we got to Washington National, I looked out my window and saw we were flying paralell to the landing strip, a common approach pattern for small planes, but we weren’t very far off from the strip, and I was used to the long slow approaches of the 707. Instead as we passed the end of the strip, the pilot put the plane into a steep turning bank and again I thought: “He can’t do this. Is this FAA approved and legal? Lord if you get me off this plane, I’ll never fly again.”
Of course, the landing went smoothly and I flew in that model many times over the years, but I never quite got over that feeling on takeoff that the plane just couldn’t do that vertical 45 degree angle another time.
My dad flew them. He said it was like a sports car compared to the other sedans.
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