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Airlines With Only Wing Mounted Engines....  
User currently offlineZrs70 From United States of America, joined Dec 2000, 2872 posts, RR: 10
Posted (10 years 2 months 4 weeks 1 day 8 hours ago) and read 1730 times:

What major airlines have NEVER flown aircraft with tail mounted engines?

The only one that comes to mind is HP, but I'm sure there are others.




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User currently offlineIMissPiedmont From United States of America, joined May 2001, 6203 posts, RR: 43
Reply 1, posted (10 years 2 months 4 weeks 1 day 8 hours ago) and read 1711 times:

JetBlue, Cochise, Apache and Ransom, come quickly to mind.


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User currently offlineIMissPiedmont From United States of America, joined May 2001, 6203 posts, RR: 43
Reply 2, posted (10 years 2 months 4 weeks 1 day 8 hours ago) and read 1709 times:

BTW, you can exclude HP if you count wet leases. ATA operated L-1011s for them on the PHX-HNL route for a couple months.


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User currently offlineZrs70 From United States of America, joined Dec 2000, 2872 posts, RR: 10
Reply 3, posted (10 years 2 months 4 weeks 1 day 8 hours ago) and read 1703 times:

Again, I stress MAJOR airlines. Otherwise we'll get a blitz of tiny prop carriers!

Jetblue, however, counts!


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User currently offlineZrs70 From United States of America, joined Dec 2000, 2872 posts, RR: 10
Reply 4, posted (10 years 2 months 4 weeks 1 day 8 hours ago) and read 1699 times:

Imiss....

Point well taken! My bad!


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User currently offlineRedngold From United States of America, joined Mar 2000, 6907 posts, RR: 51
Reply 5, posted (10 years 2 months 4 weeks 1 day 8 hours ago) and read 1695 times:

Nobody had better mention Southwest who knows Southwest, because they had a 727 at one time (charter only, but still in their colors)


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User currently offlineBoeing 747-311 From United States of America, joined Mar 2001, 795 posts, RR: 0
Reply 6, posted (10 years 2 months 4 weeks 1 day 8 hours ago) and read 1681 times:

IMissPiedmont-

well what does HP have to do with ata? as i recall, except for AWA Express, they have not operated anything other then wing mountain engines. also, AWA express, is not aircraft owned by HP.


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User currently offlineLutfi From China, joined Sep 2000, 698 posts, RR: 1
Reply 7, posted (10 years 2 months 4 weeks 1 day 8 hours ago) and read 1675 times:

Smartarse answer.

Nobody. There is a thing called an "APU" (Auxilliary Power Unit) in the tail of aircraft with wing mounted engines. It is a small jet engine, that is tail mounted...

User currently offlineVirginFlyer From New Zealand, joined Sep 2000, 4502 posts, RR: 50
Reply 8, posted (10 years 2 months 4 weeks 1 day 8 hours ago) and read 1672 times:

Qantas Airways
Virgin Blue

V/F


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User currently offlineBoeing 747-311 From United States of America, joined Mar 2001, 795 posts, RR: 0
Reply 9, posted (10 years 2 months 4 weeks 1 day 8 hours ago) and read 1670 times:

what about virgin atlantic?


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User currently offlineIMissPiedmont From United States of America, joined May 2001, 6203 posts, RR: 43
Reply 10, posted (10 years 2 months 4 weeks 1 day 8 hours ago) and read 1669 times:

747-311. I did write that ATA operated a wet lease for HP using the L10.

Sorry Zrs70, I missed the major in your question. Of course if you lived in Kingman AZ when Cochise was flying you might have considered it a major carrier.  Smile/happy/getting dizzy


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User currently offlineGigneil From United States of America, joined Nov 2002, 16215 posts, RR: 88
Reply 11, posted (10 years 2 months 4 weeks 1 day 7 hours ago) and read 1659 times:

Qantas has operated DC-9s in the past if I'm not mistaken, and they operate the 717.

I think its pretty safe to say there are no US based majors that never operated a tail mounted engine.

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User currently offlineIMissPiedmont From United States of America, joined May 2001, 6203 posts, RR: 43
Reply 12, posted (10 years 2 months 4 weeks 1 day 7 hours ago) and read 1649 times:

Maybe no current US majors but I don't think Capital ever operated any aircraft with tail mounted engines. Today it would be called a regional carrier but at the time it was pretty big. Maybe Chicago & Southen also?


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User currently offlineVirginFlyer From New Zealand, joined Sep 2000, 4502 posts, RR: 50
Reply 13, posted (10 years 2 months 4 weeks 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 1628 times:

Gigneil - Qantas have not operated the DC-9 in the past, and the 717s are operated by Impulse (a Qantas subsidiary trading as QantasLink).

V/F


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User currently offlineAcidradio From United States of America, joined Mar 2001, 1855 posts, RR: 10
Reply 14, posted (10 years 2 months 4 weeks 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 1610 times:		 AIRLINERS.NET CREW
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OK, this is almost like saying "Airlines with the name 'Air' in their titles".


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User currently offlineScottb From United States of America, joined Jul 2000, 6365 posts, RR: 34
Reply 15, posted (10 years 2 months 4 weeks 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 1603 times:

Um, according to USDOT, jetBlue is NOT a major airline yet.

User currently offlinePositive rate From Australia, joined Sep 2001, 2143 posts, RR: 1
Reply 16, posted (10 years 2 months 4 weeks 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 1598 times:

Virgin Blue is one that comes to mind. QANTAS operate the 717- yeah i know Impulse actually own the planes but they are painted in QF colours and are classified as part of QF's fleet therefore QF has operated rear-engined aircraft! QANTAS has never operated DC-9's, that was TAA and Ansett that flew them in the 1970's-80's.
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