Warbird Information Exchange

727-300

very funny

b29flteng wrote:727-300

What? With a 757 cockpit section grafted on? What are you smoking?

The original 757 concept was known as the 727-300. The fuselage has a lot of the same parts as a 727.

At least that's what I was told back in the Eastern Airline days. Eastern had the first 757 built.

wait.., the first photo in this thread is a 'FAKE' isn't it?

the330thbg wrote:wait.., the first photo in this thread is a 'FAKE' isn't it?

Yep it's a fake, but it is a well done one! Notice that it's had winglets installed, too........

Scott

Somewhere in a box of stuff I've got a couple toolbox stickers that Boeing issued when the 757 was announced. They are the jet cartoon type and clearly show the TEE tail and wing mounted engines on a grinning airplane in white and brown. I believe it was kanked because of airflow stab blanking issues, and we all know what a vortex farm a 57 is, that's why following intervals are so much greater behind one.
The original 727-300 idea, and I have a station profile print of that, the original offering idea was a stretched 727-200 with 3 CFM 56 engines all aft mounted, the center inlet was going to be a real design/airflow nightmare.
Boeing REALLY wanted to install the 757 style flight deck glass on the nextgen 737 to get rid of the 707 era mailslot glass but our 'friends' in the big blue house of 'NO' said if they did, it would require a whole new ATC because of all the other design changes they had allowed to update the Renton football, and that would exceed their limits of 'refined' design elements (!!??!!)

ahhhh, politics in large corporations!! good grief.., I like the nod to 60's and 70's design in the 737's nose. I do like the 'retro' look of them. Takes me back to the days as a small child when all the Braniff jets had those amazing colors.

The denial of revamping the flight deck glazing on the NG 737's wasn't made in a Boeing office, it WAS made down Renton Ave, @ the Seattle FSDO, the home of schadenfreude where they aren't happy unless you aren't.

262crew wrote:

There it is: Well over half my flying career in one photo (apart from the livery.)

Airplanejunkie wrote:There it is: Well over half my flying career in one photo (apart from the livery.)

So half of your flying career was in a made-up photoshopped bird?