What's your avorite airliner?

I'm old-school: Either a 727-200 or an Elton Eleven.

The old Delta widget scheme made any plane look like it was moving even when
it was standing still.
The up-until-1982 Braniff scheme--no matter what color--was the shiznit,
too.

--
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Damon Scott Hynes wrote:
I'm old-school: Either a 727-200 or an Elton Eleven.

The old Delta widget scheme made any plane look like it was moving even when
it was standing still.
The up-until-1982 Braniff scheme--no matter what color--was the shiznit,
too.


I have always liked the 737 (any variant)--of course that would be my
choice for a modern one. Of all time, it would probably have to be the
Super Constelation.
--
Jonathan,
www.virtual-hangar.com

Shorts 360 over Great Barrier Reef.

What's your favorite airliner?

777, 747

"james_anatidae" wrote in message
...
In an effort to get some on-topic messages in RTA, I ask "What is your
favorite airliner"? I remember a UA A320 I flew on a couple years ago to
be
quite pleasant.

I guess it depends what your criteria are...

Long haul economy - B767 (because of seating)
Long haul business - B747 upstairs (quiet and only 12 seats in the few
remaining small bubbles)
Long haul first - A340-500 Emirates
Short haul economy - A320/A319 (seem slightly more spacious the 737)
Short haul business/first - Delta B767 (a very few transcontinental US
routes using business elite cabins provide very generous seating)

Regards, Howard

"james_anatidae" wrote ...
In an effort to get some on-topic messages in RTA, I ask "What is your
favorite airliner"?


My last few flights were with an MD-11 (of KLM). I sat rather in the back
and the sound of the engines (and evern more of the tail engine) is great.
Hearing an engine spool up and give all power is magnificent.
Greetz,

*last flights were in 2002 :-(*

In article , "james_anatidae" wrote:
In an effort to get some on-topic messages in RTA, I ask "What is your
favorite airliner"? I remember a UA A320 I flew on a couple years ago to be
quite pleasant.

(And I ask if any of the many local trolls answer this message, you others
please don't encourage them.)

RJ-85 as flown by NW Airlink (Mesaba). Very cool looking plane, has GREAT
first class seats and the best coach seats of any plane I have ever been on.
Mesaba has them configured 3-2 instead of the 3-3 common in Europe, so nice
wide seats and plent of legroom. And they makes some seriously wierd noises as
the flaps go in and out! :-) Only downside is they are slooooow. Westbound
into the winter wind PWM-DTW it would almost be faster to get out and walk....


Kevin Rhodes
Westbrook, Maine

In article ,
Kevin Rhodes wrote:

RJ-85 as flown by NW Airlink (Mesaba). Very cool looking plane, has GREAT
first class seats

What he said. Best domestic first class seats, IMHO, and more
comfortable than some international business class seats I've seen.

Kevin Rhodes wrote:

RJ-85 as flown by NW Airlink (Mesaba). Very cool looking
plane, has GREAT first class seats


So how does the RJ-85 differ from the BAe 146 of the 1980s?

My personal nominaton: DC-8-62. I flew on one from SJC to
HNL in 1982 (United; probably one of their last narrowbody
flights between the Mainland and Hawaii), and I remember
that it was so quiet, I didn't even realize that the
engines had been started until we started taxiing. All
I could hear was the gentle hiss of the air conditioning.

I was dissappointed that the plane didn't have those cool
1960s-era DC-8 seats with the reading lights in the upper
corners of the seatbacks, thugh.



Geoff

--
"At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child -- miserable,
as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-
disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a
philosophy of sniveling brats." -- P.J. O'Rourke

I agree about the DC-8s. I flew on a re-engined United DC-8 from Oakland to
HNL around 1990....best coach seats I ever had, wide and with great legroom.




"Geoff Miller" wrote in message
...


Kevin Rhodes wrote:

RJ-85 as flown by NW Airlink (Mesaba). Very cool looking
plane, has GREAT first class seats


So how does the RJ-85 differ from the BAe 146 of the 1980s?

My personal nominaton: DC-8-62. I flew on one from SJC to
HNL in 1982 (United; probably one of their last narrowbody
flights between the Mainland and Hawaii), and I remember
that it was so quiet, I didn't even realize that the
engines had been started until we started taxiing. All
I could hear was the gentle hiss of the air conditioning.

I was dissappointed that the plane didn't have those cool
1960s-era DC-8 seats with the reading lights in the upper
corners of the seatbacks, thugh.



Geoff

--
"At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child -- miserable,
as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-
disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a
philosophy of sniveling brats." -- P.J. O'Rourke