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PostPosted: Tue Sep 18, 2018 3:49 pm 
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I know it is not a warbird, but it is joining a bunch of them at Pima
https://www.abc15.com/news/region-centr ... ace-museum

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 18, 2018 4:52 pm 
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Cool!
I'd be curious to know what the total time and cycles are.
No better place to keep an aircraft in outdoor storage than the desert environment.
Pima has a fantastic record looking after a huge array of huge aircraft.
Congrats to them.

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 18, 2018 5:35 pm 
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DH82EH wrote:
Cool!
I'd be curious to know what the total time and cycles are.
No better place to keep an aircraft in outdoor storage than the desert environment.
Pima has a fantastic record looking after a huge array of huge aircraft.
Congrats to them.

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I'm really surprised the Seattle museum didn't make a grab for it as they have many first models of Boeing airliners.

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 18, 2018 10:24 pm 
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I'm really surprised the Seattle museum didn't make a grab for it as they have many first models of Boeing airliners.


My understanding is that they turned it down because they did not have room for it.


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The Seattle Flight Museum already has 777 prototype #3 on display.


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PostPosted: Wed Sep 19, 2018 1:08 am 
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The Seattle Flight Museum already has 777 prototype #3 on display.


They have 787 #3.


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PostPosted: Wed Sep 19, 2018 1:51 am 
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Pima has a 787 prototype as well. During my most recent visit, I spent some time underneath it looking at the composite fuselage. Now if they could find a way to fill the empty nacelles....

They also have a 727, a 737-300 from China, a C-9, a VC-137, and the ex-Orbis DC-10.
Add to that a bunch of vintage props: C-54, C-97, Convair T-29& C-131, VC-118, a DC-7, a L-10 Electra, a Lodestar, an early 049 Constallation, C-121 Super Connies, a Martin 404, Sikorsky S-43, a C-46 and 47, a Viscount and Caravelle...they're getting a nice airliner (or military types based on airlinets) collection.

Now if they could get a DC-8...
It would be nice if an operator could land one there instead of delivering it for storage/scrapping nearby.

Too bad they couldn't save an ex-airline 707 or 720 when they were parted out for KC-135Es and scrapped across the freeway at D-M.

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So is this the first 777 built or do they mean the first one off the production line?

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So is this the first 777 built or do they mean the first one off the production line?

The first-ever Boeing 777 airplane (line number WA001)

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"Boeing first flew the 777-200 airplane on June 12, 1994, and continued to use it as a test airplane for several years"


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JohnB wrote:
Puma has a 787 prototype as well. During my most recent visit, I spent some time underneath it looking at the composite fuselage. Now if they could find a way to fill the empty nacelles....



The 787 has engines. The 737 is the one that we haven't been able to get engines for.

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As I recall, something was missing from the nacelles...perhaps thrust reversers or some accessory?

I appreciate the difficulty in retaining parts that still are in service.

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 19, 2018 3:37 pm 
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JohnB wrote:
As I recall, something was missing from the nacelles...perhaps thrust reverses or some accessory?

I appreciate the difficulty in retaining parts that still are in service.


You may be right. I'd have to go look but it is possible they left something off when Boeing swapped the good engines for dead ones.


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Very cool and thanks, as always, to jamesintucson for his Pima updates. They're always insightful and interesting.


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jamesintucson wrote:
makin' boost wrote:
The Seattle Flight Museum already has 777 prototype #3 on display.


They have 787 #3.


My error, you are correct.


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