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bar is our future man on location 739 ridiculouer.
for that reason he is on the 73. his fears of being right placed on the 88 is why his tag says what it does. either way, the fact he isn't sitting sideways is testament to the fact he is holding equipment out of seniority and needs to be right displaced as some say.
also i slip him some coin to keep it up to keep people off this thing in Atlanta.
he does well, but the problem is he doesn't know that it's the 90 living up to the reputation.
You guys are pretty tough on Douglas aircraft. Think about this - The DC-9 and the 88 were pretty much the same generation as the 737-200/300/500.
How many of them are still flying passengers in the US compared to the DC-9 and the 88?
I agree the 88 is not in the same league as the 737 NG aircraft but for the most part you are comparing 1960s and 1970s Douglas aircraft with 1990s Boeing aircraft.
I will even agree with Bar that some of the Douglas engineering was, how shall I state this, creative to say the least. Case in point, the Rube Goldberg Wet compass. On the other hand, the things will fly with no electricity and no hydraulics.
Now whats this I hear about hiring?
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