When was the last time you flew on . . .
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When was the last time you flew on . . .
As the price of jet fuel increases, those Hummers in the sky are decreasing. When was the last time you flew on the following:
A. 727
B. 707
C. DC-8
A. Right after 9-11; Nov. 2001 from Miami to Montego Bay, Jamaica (American)
B. Never (didn't start flying until I was in my 20's.
C. Never
A. 727
B. 707
C. DC-8
A. Right after 9-11; Nov. 2001 from Miami to Montego Bay, Jamaica (American)
B. Never (didn't start flying until I was in my 20's.
C. Never
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727 - till early 90's. AA has tonnes of them, and I used to connect from IAH-DFW for its NRT flights. It's always 727 for that short hop, sometimes a Alaska Air plane, but with AA flight crew and service.
707 & DC-8 - In the late 70's, my parents took me and my sister from Hong Kong to Taiwan for vacation quite often. It's basically one or the other. CI, CX and SQ use 707, while Japan Asia use DC-8 on this route.
707 & DC-8 - In the late 70's, my parents took me and my sister from Hong Kong to Taiwan for vacation quite often. It's basically one or the other. CI, CX and SQ use 707, while Japan Asia use DC-8 on this route.
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Last 727 was probably sometime in the '80s, most likely on Alaska Airlines.
Last 707 was on Lufthansa, FRA-ANC, 1978. I remember it clearly because it was the filthiest, least comfortable plane I'd ridden on that year, and let me tell you that's saying something.
Last DC-8 was probably one of UAL's lovely super-61s flying all around the country in the '70s. Gorgeous airplanes hand crafted with loving care by skilled artisans working happily under benign supervision and visionary management at Douglas' C plant in Long Beach, California. (I say that because I was one of the skilled artisans working happily as a jig builder and rivet bucker at said plant. Mostly true except for the parts about skilled, happily, benign and visionary )
Last 707 was on Lufthansa, FRA-ANC, 1978. I remember it clearly because it was the filthiest, least comfortable plane I'd ridden on that year, and let me tell you that's saying something.
Last DC-8 was probably one of UAL's lovely super-61s flying all around the country in the '70s. Gorgeous airplanes hand crafted with loving care by skilled artisans working happily under benign supervision and visionary management at Douglas' C plant in Long Beach, California. (I say that because I was one of the skilled artisans working happily as a jig builder and rivet bucker at said plant. Mostly true except for the parts about skilled, happily, benign and visionary )
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Another narrowbody jet I've flown on several times, but no longer in service, is the Hawker Siddeley Trident. For some reason, CAAC of China bought a bunch of them from the Brits, and used them extensively for domestic and Hong Kong flights in the late 70's to early 80's. Last time I flew on in is probably around 1983-84.
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727s--in the 1970s. Both Air Canada and Canadian Pacific flew them.
707s, never.
DC-8s--I flew on a lot of stretched 8s in the late 70s. Air Canada had them on the Montreal-Halifax-St. John's route, and I was living in Newfoundland at the time. Lots of go-arounds on those due to the fog in YYT.
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707s, never.
DC-8s--I flew on a lot of stretched 8s in the late 70s. Air Canada had them on the Montreal-Halifax-St. John's route, and I was living in Newfoundland at the time. Lots of go-arounds on those due to the fog in YYT.
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I've flown all of those at one time or another. But I am sure a 727 flight has been within the past 10 years of less.
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