Originally Posted by
Jughead
Interestingly enough, the 757 was designed to have a 727 nose, but went with the current design to match production design of the 767, as well as increase cockpit space and reduce noise.
The 757 evolution is interesting in that United and I think TWA (maybe Eastern) rejected Boeing's offering of the 727-300 which used the JT8D200 series engines. It never got off paper but as someone has posted, the 757 went through a number of designs including using the T-tail.
The 757 and 767 were/are very easy airplanes to fly. Throttles to idle at 50ft on the 767 and 30ft on the 757. The rule was the 757 was the airplane to be seen flying. The 767 was the better handling of the two.