Originally Posted by
Nightflyer
Too bad the company screwed up and didn't buy 757's off the line when Boeing was try to keep the line open.
I was told the story a long time ago; in the very early 1980's Fred tried to work a deal for new 57's from Boeing and asked if the bellys could be modified slightly to hold 2 additional LD3 containers. As the story goes, Boeing told him to pack sand. UPS asked the same question a year or so later and with the economy in the tank and airlines cancelling and deffering their orders from Boeing, Boeing agreed to the change. This was the birth of the Package Freighter.