From: wmkerschner88@gmail.com
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Sent: 2/2/2019 1:00:42 PM Central Standard Time
Subject: Re: Boeing's 727 makes last commercial passenger flight | CNN Travel
To:
Sent: 2/2/2019 1:00:42 PM Central Standard Time
Subject: Re: Boeing's 727 makes last commercial passenger flight | CNN Travel
I still love the B-727. Unlike the
CV-880 where even the worst below average pilots got an excellent landing
occasionally, and then they thought they were really good pilots, the
B-727 required skill for consistent excellent landings.
A
running joke, because the 727 had a noisy cockpit {air noise on a high speed
descent, and the cup holders were too small and pilots put their beverages on
the cockpit floor next to their seats,} was that in a bar {tavern in the
Midwest} one could always pick out the 727 pilots, because they put their
beverage glasses on the floor and they talked very loudly.
On Sat, Feb 2, 2019 at 11:31 AM Fred Koerschner <fkoerschner@aol.com>
wrote:
Boeing's
famous trijet 727 makes last commercial flight
Jack Guy, CNN • Updated 22nd
January 2019
(CNN) — Air travelers will no
longer be able to enjoy the Boeing 727's distinctive design after the jet made
its last commercial passenger flight.
Flying a domestic Iranian route, a 38-year-old
Boeing 727-200 owned by Iran Aseman Airlines entered the history books in
mid-January after a journey documented by journalist Babak Taghvaee on Twitter.
With
a raked T-shaped tail and three engines, the 727 drew plenty of attention when
it launched in 1962.
The
design also served a practical purpose, with the mid-size plane aimed at
smaller cities where airports had smaller runways that couldn't handle the
larger 707 jet.
"Its
three, rear-mounted engines made it versatile for operators able to take off
and land on short runways but still have the range for transoceanic
routes," Murdo Morrison, head of strategic content at aviation
intelligence specialist FlightGlobal, told CNN via email.
Runaway
sales
The 727 brought air travel to smaller cities
that couldn't handle the larger 707 jet
Elaine Thompson/AP
Boeing had initially planned to build 250 of the
aircraft, according to the company website.
However,
after a slow start, orders for the 727 went through the roof.
Before
long the 727 became the first commercial jet design to sell over a thousand
airplanes, and 1,832 were eventually built and sold, according to Boeing.
After
starting life as a commercial airliner, the 727 has seen its role evolve over
time.
"From
the mid-1980s, when production ended, the 727 was seen as increasingly noisy
and inefficient compared with some of its newer rivals, and many major airlines
began phasing the type out from the 1990s," said Morrison.
"However,
it has enjoyed a long second life, with around 60 still operating as
freighters, VIP transports or as research aircraft more than half a century
after the type entered service."
One 727 still in service is operated by a
UK-based outfit called Oil Spill Response, which disperses oil slicks
by dispensing petroleum-eating detergent while flying as low as 150 feet above
the water.
Oil Spill Response still operates a 727 to
tackle oil slicks.
Thom Patterson/CNN
Known
as three-holers, airplanes with a triple engine configuration have a huge
following among aviation enthusiasts. Another, the McDonnell Douglas MD-11 is
still serving in cargo fleets operated by FedEx and Lufthansa.
While
the 727 eventually proved to be a huge success for Boeing, it has also been
involved in some interesting incidents.
In
1971, a man known as D.B. Cooper hijacked a 727 in the northwest United States
before parachuting to the ground with $200,000 (worth $1.2million today) in
stolen cash strapped to his body.
One
of the most famous aviation crimes in the United States remains unsolved, and
in 2016 the FBI closed its investigation.
The
daring escape was only made possible thanks to another design quirk of the 727:
a built-in staircase in the aft.
Boeing
changed the design as a result of the intriguing episode, part of the
fascinating history of a plane that was also used by US President Donald Trump
as his private jet until he upgraded to a Boeing 757 in 2009.
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READER ALERT: The
following is decidedly Christian. Gene has contributed before and I admire him
but if you are offended by the religious content just skip Gene’s post.
From: Gene Hall
Date: 1/9/2019 5:54:38 PM
Subject: Blog
January 9, 2019
I Am Not Ashamed Of The
Gospel
Those of you have read my vents and
blogs are aware that I didn't come to Christ until I was 41 years old.
That was January 1977, and I had my 83rd birthday on June 18, 2018. If my math
is correct - after 14 brain surgeries- that is a little more than half my
life.
In the 1950's, when I came of age,
it seemed to me that nursing and the airlines were attracting more pretty girls
than any other profession. The "glass ceiling" hadn't been penetrated
yet, and there weren't as many opportunities for women as today. It's well
known that I had led a wild life before Christ came into my life. I've often
wondered whether if it was the love of flying, or the love of stewardesses that
attracted me to airline flying.
After I bowed my knee and
surrendered to Christ, friends couldn't believe what had happened to me
(especially my airline friends), and one guy said I would "get back to
normal soon." I walked into flight operations soon after, and there was a
group of pilots standing there. One asked me, “is true what I heard happened to
you,” and I answered “yes,” and quickly walked on by. I didn't want to talk
about it. I was a "baby Christian," and I didn't realize it then, but
I was "ashamed of the gospel."
I believe most of us went through a
teenage period when we would rather our friends not see our parents. One friend
told a story of dropping her age 14 daughter off at Westminster School in
Atlanta, and she said "give Momma a kiss." Her daughter had already
seen that there were a lot of her friends right outside the car, and she
quickly said, "I will shake your hand."
Matthew 10:32 Whosoever therefore
shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is
in heaven. 10:33 But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny
before my Father which is in heaven.
I am told that most teens grow out
of being ashamed of their parents, but many Christians don't grow out of being
ashamed of the Gospel. When we're ashamed of the Gospel, we are denying
Christ.
During the first 10 years of being
a Christian, I served on several nonprofit)5boards, and in 1986, Michael
Youssef shared his vision for a new church in Buckhead/Vinings with me. It grew
into the Church of the Apostles, a mega-church which on Mother’s Day will
celebrate its 32nd anniversary. I like to have “spiritual pride,” and say that
the Church started in my house, but we never worshiped there. We did, however,
plan the first service there. Michael had rented the Lovett School Chapel for a
fall start. In May, Gil Meridith, the late Andy Huber, Michael and I, were
going to lunch, and we met in my house. The 4 of us had a pre luncheon prayer
meeting, and it turned into a planning meeting for the first service on
Mother’s Day, instead of the Fall. We rented a room in the Waverley Hotel and
started with about 38 people in attendance. Ensuing events proved that if we
didn’t start immediately, we never would have started.
The Church has 3,000 seats now, and
Dr. Youssef, unlike many “so called” evangelical churches, is still being true
to the Gospel. John 14:6 "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one
comes to the Father except through me.” Many churches are teaching that
Jesus is a way, but not the only way.
We started as an Episcopal Church,
but most of the Founders suspected that we would have to eventually withdraw
from the Denomination. There were Episcopal Churches all ready fighting about
their property, and the national church was winning. In 2010 the National
Church refused to sell to a local congregation, and accepted a lower bid from a
mosque. Link below:
More recently, a North Carolina
Church has been converted, and that’s just the “tip of the iceberg.” Hundreds
of Churches in Post Christian Europe are being converted.
On December 21, 1995 - Joan and my
32nd anniversary - my late business partner and I were on I-185, going to
Columbus, Georgia. He was driving, and I was napping. He had the speed command
set on 72 MPH, when he took a nap. We hit a parked car. The EMT's took us to a
Columbus hospital. A friend called my Pastor, Michael. Michael was ready to go
to Columbus, but when my friend told him that the most serious injury was,
“that he almost bit his tongue into,” Michael said, “I don’t have to come, that
will be advantageous to him and all of us.”
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