Originally Posted by
Deez340
707 panel or window seat? The guys of that era that i know from both carriers spent years as FE's. Maybe some where lucky. And the Connie, yes too cool. The old guy that gave me my SAAB checkride at Eagle years ago had a Connie type rating. I was going on about how cool it was and he said "that in today's world having a connie type was like knowing how to give a dinosaur an enima..... neither one of them does you any good."
It was a window seat... early 60'=fast capt... mid 60's meant forever FO... and late 60's early 70's meant forever FE... but early 60's didn't get stuck on the panel, and many NEVER flew the panel. It wasn't some. It was a lot. Both UAL and TWA. The guys who got the connie were upset to get that. Everyone wanted to fly the 707, and the connie was seen as a lousy job. So the newhire 707 FOs didn't complain as much. Funny how that went.