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B737-100 Doors: Why No Exterior Handle

Cdfmxtech From United States of America, joined Jul 2000, 1338 posts, RR: 29
Posted (11 years 7 months 21 hours ago) and read 820 times:

Why was there no exterior handle on the B737-100?
Never worked the airplame, so just curious?

B737-100

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Photo © Torsten Maiwald

B737-200

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Photo © Torsten Maiwald

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VC-10 From United Kingdom, joined Oct 1999, 3677 posts, RR: 37
Reply 1, posted (11 years 7 months 16 hours ago) and read 769 times:

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There is a handle, just below the door port hole.

L-188 From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 29350 posts, RR: 62
Reply 2, posted (11 years 7 months 7 hours ago) and read 739 times:

That top aircraft appears to be equipted with an aft integral airstair. There is a handle for it but it is on the bottom of the fuselauge where ground personel can use it to access the aircraft. Notice how much larger this door is compared to the aft door on the -200 in the other photograph. The upper stage of stairs are located on the door which folds down and there are two more sections that fold down to form the airstair.

When I was working for Alaska Airlines all of their combi 727-200's save for one had an airstair mounted at the rear door.

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Photo © Chris Benesh/back2planes

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Photo © John P. Stewart

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MiG31 From United States of America, joined Aug 2008, 0 posts, RR: 0
Reply 3, posted (11 years 6 months 4 weeks 19 hours ago) and read 679 times:

Wow! That thing is OLD... Big grin