[Dottore]

For a couple of years in the mid 1980's, just after 757's came into service, I used to commute twice weekly from Singapore to Jakarta on Singapore Airlines 757's. A couple of the pilots were good mates, and they loved the 757. Referred to it as the sports car of airliners - I guess for the reasons you mention.

However when these planes first when into service they had some problems with cabin pressure. I know Singapore Airlines had to do several decompression dives (with passengers)! I was on one of those. It was the day my hair turned grey. You haven't quite lived until you've gone down nose first in one of these suckers.