Yes, but Guppies are vastly more modern than they were in 1967. We now have automatic pressurization, and a real autopilot. And it only took 50 years to get here.

Boeing is still trying to figure out how to make 767 tankers, after they sold 767 tankers to Japan 20 years ago.

Write your congressman(person) now and recommend Boeing get the development contract for the first unpiloted commercial aircraft. It will be airline pilot job security for the next 3 generations of pilots.

Just wanted to share my final 4 bracket from last week. Pleasantly surprised with Uruguay!

Sweden, Belgium, Croatia, and.........longshot Uruguay

Its cute you think that. A320 future sales pitch, “what Boeing could’ve built... but didn’t.”


Same flying car they’ve been promising in “Tomorrowland” since the first guppy rolled off the line. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Give me a VNAV that does the programmed descent at least 15% of the time and I might start to get worried.

Go fly the 777. VNAV works great.

Cough, cough....uhhhh…..no it doesn't. :confused: It's very easily confused. I'd say worse than the 757.

Maybe it's me that gets confused. I'm confused though.

BOTLS at 280 to me means, BOTLS-2 /280.

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VNAV - Trust, but verify. Or, don't trust and take preemptive measures to prevent filling out an FSAP.

I still don’t get all of the 737 bashing. I’ve only flown Boeing and can’t compare it to an Airbus, but what we may prefer to fly is irrelevant. It doesn’t really matter if we operate a manual transmission pickup or a fully loaded automatic SUV. We’re just hourly paid labor and the bean counters get to pick what they want. The Airbus might be a more comfortable pilot friendly machine, but a 737 isn’t that bad, it gets the job done, and it makes money. It is still a pressurized and air conditioned work place with autopilot. I guess since this is just a dollar per day job for me I have a different perspective.

I still wish we would bring back the 727. No more debate the ol' Three Holer was a winner that beat the Guppy and Airbus HANDS DOWN!
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So you haven’t flown it....
Would you rather be stuck in a 6 hour traffic jam in IAH in the Summer in a ‘74 Super Beetle with a manual, or a 2009 Cadillac Escalade?