Re: What counts as a flagship?

Any American Airlines Prop and the 707s up until they converted them to fanjets and rebranded them as Astrojets. For example the DC-3 Flagship Detroit.

Re: Remaining Pan Am 747 airframes

The one at Museum of Flight is 747-121 line #1. In spite of its PanAm customer code, it spent its entire flying career at Boeing.

Re: Why retract flaps on the ground?

In the mid 70s I worked for the caterer at PVD, looking at what was going on the field as much as possible. As has been said, all the airline DC-9s, 727s, and BAC-111s had their flaps up by the time they turned off the runway. One day a USAF C-9 came in. He left his flaps and spoilers deployed all t...

Re: Longest 737-100 flight

From what I can find out, Avianca got two -159s, both of which wound up at Aloha. Why such a small subflleet, I have no idea, And People Express's first planes were ex-Lufthansa -130s.

Re: Longest 737-100 flight

There were only 30 737-100s built, the majority of which were -130s for Lufthansa. Aloha flew 200s.

Re: Why are UA´s 777-300ER designated as 777-322ERs?

The Boeing customer codes started with 707 orders in the late 50s. The initial model was ther 707-120. The first proposal was to PanAm which wound up as 121. The second proposal was a 122 to United, who went with DC-8s, but the number stayed. And on to 99, then restarted at -101 (Piedmont). When the...

Re: SAA pilot fired for faking ATP for over 20 years

This brings back a vague memory I have. IIRC in the 60s or early 70s there was a captain on, I believe it was Eastern who only had a private pilot's license. He was caught, after passing who knows how many checkridea, by a FAA inspector who actually asked to see his ATP certificate. before a checkri...

Re: New England Patriots arrival... Delta TOC? video

RobertS975 wrote:

For some reason, the Patriots B767 does not ever show up on flightaware.com.

Re: Identical flight numbers on same routes at same times

A similar situation led to any aircraft carrying the US president being Air Force 1 (or Marine, Army, or Navy 1). Columbine !!, President Eisenhower's Connie, tail number 48-0610 was operating near DC using call sign Air Force 610 while Eastern 610 was operating in the area. Fortunately, the only pr...

Re: History of USA transcontinental flights?

Are we just talking nonstops here? TAT began transcontinental Ford Trimotor/train service in 1929. American began Condor sleeper service in 1930.

Re: New tv series: Manifest. 737-200 question

Typical Hollywood depiction of Aviation. At :34 there's a head-on shot of a 737 with CFM-56s.

Re: Plane Lands on Lake Shore Drive in Chicago

Apparently an Aircoupe suffered engine failure flying south along the lake shore near Soldier's Field and was forced to land on southbound Lake Shore Drive and having to fly under a pedestrian bridge to do so. No injuries nor damage to aircraft or cars. http://abc7chicago.com/small-plane-lands-on-l...

Re: Routes you thought were flown by an airline, but are not

AA flew PVD-DFW for a short time with a Mad Dog in the late 90s, early 2000s. Apparently it wasn't profitable.

Re: Orders that didn’t happen

Northeast ordered Britannias in the late 50s
and L-1011s in the late 60s.

Re: Corporations behind airlines

I believe the CEO of United Continental is Pete Townsend.
Seriously, Northeast was originally a joint venture between Boston and Maine and Central Vermont Railroads.

Re: Airline livery you miss the most

Two of my favorite liveries wound on some of the same planes
Northeast Yellowbird
Delta Widget
And some of the ex-Yellowbirds wound up with another of my favorites: Piedmont Pacemaker.

Re: Air Tran Liveried AC With International Registration

tcsundevil, I found it. The original Air Tran, pre-Valuejet operated EI-CJW in the mid-90s.

Re: N707JT Noise Restrictions?

From what has been posted earlier, N707JT is grounded, apparently due to corrosion, So passing noise restrictions is probably moot.

Re: N707JT Noise Restrictions?

From what has been posted earlier, N707JT is grounded, apparently due to corrosion, So passing noise restrictions is probably moot.

Re: Jet-powered flying boat technical feasability

Besides the problems of salt water causing corrosion, wouldn't water landing gear make high speed flying problematic? If a flying boat lands on pontoons, wouldn't they cause lots of air resistance. What would be the point of her engines on such an aircraft? A flying boat never lands on pontoons :-)...

Re: Remnants of old terminals

PVD: The original terminal from the thirties is still used for offices.

PWM: The thirties terminal is still used for general aviation.

Re: When and How Long Was The MD Long Beach Plant Used?

B-17s were also built under contract by Douglas and Lockheed's Vega division.

Re: What airlines play their own custom soundtrack for boarding/deplaning?

Does it surprise anybody that NE used to play "Yellowbird" during boarding?

RE: Colourscheme Nicknames

Let's not forget the Northeast "Yellowbirds"!

RE: Which Past Airline Is Missed The Most In US?

As a New Englander, I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Northeast. They struggled through most of their existence, but the Yellowbirds were gorgeous!

RE: Self Contained Air Stairs

I believe the airstairs were only on the Fairchild F-27s and FH-227s, not the Fokker F.27s. I have also seen 737-200s with airstairs on both the L1 and L2 doors.

RE: Tracking Flights With Flight Radar 24 Nah

FlightAware, while usually useful, can have interesting results. For example, according to them, for the last few weeks, ExpressJet 4595 <acronym title="Newark - Liberty International (EWR / KEWR), USA - New Jersey">EWR</acronym>-<acronym title="Providence - Theodore Francis Green State (PVD / KPVD)...