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First Boeing 727 Makes Last Flight

Old 03-02-2016 | 11:47 AM
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Old 03-02-2016 | 01:58 PM
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the plane was delivered to United Airlines, where it flew mostly domestic routes for 27 years, racking up 64,495 flight hours and 48,060 landings.
64,495 / 27 = 2,388.7 hrs per year avg.

2,388.7 / 365 = 6.54 hrs per day....for 27 years.

That's amazing.

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Old 03-02-2016 | 03:39 PM
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Originally Posted by SayAlt
64,495 / 27 = 2,388.7 hrs per year avg.

2,388.7 / 365 = 6.54 hrs per day....for 27 years.

That's amazing.

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Hours, schmours! Its the cycles, man! There are quite a few Saabs with the same service years and a bunch more cycles... and some may be getting close on hours too. Probably Jetstreams and 1900s too.

Bounce, bounce, bounce... that's the life of a short haul bird.
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Old 03-03-2016 | 06:46 AM
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Loved flying the old 3 Holer. The crews made it even more fun.
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Old 03-03-2016 | 07:12 AM
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Loved flying the old 3 Holer. The crews made it even more fun.

That's a fact.

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Old 03-03-2016 | 09:56 AM
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Window heat, pitot heat, what's to eat?
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Old 03-03-2016 | 10:09 AM
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I never flew the -100 enough to do anything more than annoy people with my proficiency with pneumatic pressurization. But, for some reason, I still know that the stall warning test discs spun counter clockwise at 720rpm.

All I remember from 787 ground school is "the system is highly automated and no pilot input is required".

It's a new era in aviation.
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Old 03-04-2016 | 08:54 AM
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The -100 was way more a pilot's airplane than the -200, the big ol' ox horn yokes, the angle slide seats, ahhhh, those were the days.... What?
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