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Old 05-30-2013 | 07:30 AM
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Originally Posted by captjns
Original 767's with F/E panels designed for old United Airlines. They made it to Ansett Airlines of Australia. Talk about a bare overhead panel.

Ansett AN22 Flight Deck 14 June 1987 - YouTube

scroll through the movie to catch the overhead panel and F/E's panel
Delta airlines ordered the 767 with a flight engineer position. We were the one of the few if not the only airline to order the 767 this way. The aircraft started down the production line configured for a FE. Boeing at some point told Delta that they would not build the aircraft with a FE station. Ship 101 was on the line built for the FE. Subsequent airframes the FE station was deleted however they did not move the cockpit bulkhead fwd until the 300 came out. That is why the 200's had the huge cockpit. Ship 101 since it was set up for a FE on the production line was shunted off to a mod line to be reconfigured. Ship 102 became the first 767 delivered to Delta and became the Spirit of Delta instead of ship 101 because of this.
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