[Normy]

Here's my new toy....!

Too bad it will be three years before my seniority [currently....one floor below the septic tank~] can hold it.

WOW that plane has nice lines! And you'll note that N901FD has ROLLS-ROYCE engines. I'm dancing in front of my computer!

757's with the Pratt engines are NOTHING BUT TROUBLE. UPS actually converted all their Pratt-motored 757's over to RR's, which are basically trouble-free and use slightly less fuel. This conversion wasn't cheap: That company did it for a reason.

The 757 is a favorite among pilots because it has engines from large, wide-body aircraft....yet it is nothing more than a 727 fuselage mated with a 767 tail. 767 cockpit windows, and the same Honeywell EFIS system was installed. Basically, this plane is the 727-300 that United tried to order in 1973. The long and short is that you are mounting a pair of huge engines on a very small airplane. Hello? Who wouldn't like that? The 757 is well known for its ability to take a FULL load of people, a FULL load of bags, and transport them from a SHORT runway to a runway a LONG way away.

-Airlines don't "loose" bags anymore. They all have bar-codes, and they are all scanned 25 times between when you check them and when you pick them back up. The long and short: Airlines know where your bags are 24/7. If they don't have them at your destination, it is because they have deliberately left them behind.

Why?

Because the MD-80 or 737 [both pathethic piles of excrement, in my opinion] couldn't haul it, that's why. A more correct expression would be that they "couldn't haul all the bags with all the passengers". You see, the airlines? They try to take all the human bodies that they can. If it is a hot day, and/or you are at high altitude...such as Denver...then the silly MD-80 starts losing the ability to carry weight and they throw your bags off first. AGAIN...they know EXACTLY where your bags are!

Prime example: San Diego. American Airlines uses mostly MD-80's on their flights out of this city, and you are LUCKY if you can non-rev out of there!

The 757: It has NONE of these problems! This airplane is under-rated performance wise, and it never has a performance-hit on takeoff. I remember watching American Airlines 757's take off out of St. Thomas in the Caribbean....and this 220,000 pound airplane used less runway than the ATR-72's that also flew from there.

N!ew toy for Normy!