I bet that Rolls-Royce 757 is still flying. Those things just keep going and going.
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Yeah, they were a rocket ship too. Lots of glass broken in the galleys during takeoff the first few months we had them. Great for getting out of the islands though.
Oh, that just reminded me of something funny. When we first got them, EAL was a launch customer, and the front end crews were having a blast with their new hot rod. The cabin crews not so much. But one trip I flew, a male flight attendant had bought a big wooden train whistle on a layover in Portland. So there we were, full airplane, throttles firewalled, engines roaring as we blasted down the runway. He would pickup the P/A mic and stark blowing that train whistle. The airplane would pitch up to what felt like 40 degrees and damn whistle would be blowing. All of us, including the passengers, were laughing so hard, seriously in tears.
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Translated into 80s Eastern Airlines speak:
“Great for fleeing the scene of the crime(s)…”
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Yep, we have both the RR and PW. The PW is a pig by comparison. The PW is an overpowered stallion when compared to any other airliner that’s not a RR 757. (OK that’s really not true but I’ve become a bit of a snob about the fleet so I have no credibility.)
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Great shot. Eastern had QCs too, so that they could be switched overnight from PAX to air freight haulers. A big door on the fuselage would open upwards and they could roll sections of seats out on rails. This allowed some flexibility at stations like JFK, BOS, and DCA where we had shuttle operations.
I would assume those different engined airframes have different Vspeeds for things like Vmca and Vmcg based on the different thrusts? Or is that not a thing in the airliner world?
Its very much an airline thing. But in this case it just comes down to simple power. The RB211 produces 42700 lbs of thrust. The poor P2037 barely makes 37500.
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In 1995, I flew down to Martinique in a Navy C-9. We were just standing on the ramp waiting for the van to take us to the boat that would take us to the ship (CVN-65) that we would be riding for a couple of days. A 757 (sorry, couldn’t tell you if PW or RR) taxied out for take off, from the “beach end” of the runway, facing east. As I remember it, the C-9 pilots were watching to see how the 757 handled the mountainous terrain that the 757–and eventually themselves in the C-9–were taking off towards.
The 757 took off and I swear it looked like it was going straight up. It never came anywhere near those mountains, just went straight over them with what looked like a couple thousand feet to spare. I seem to recall the C-9 pilots mumbling something and then giving their mount a couple of disparaging glances. 
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Take a B727 fuselage and hang two L1011 engines on it and you get a B757 
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Quatam River Runway Obstructions
I had forgetten that the Propstrike plugin occasionally adds little surprises.
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And don’t forget that you can also have your engine de-rated to get some extra life out of it. For the cost-minded among us 
There was supposed to be a CF-6-32 variant to fit between the -80 and -50, and be a de-rated up to date engine for the 757, alas it was abandoned because lack of customer interest… Shame really, that engine would probably have kicked some serious butt.
Because @smokinhole raved so much about the Rolls Royce engines, I had to take em’ for a spin. I love the sound-set on this module when you pull back the power…that buzzsaw sound is really sweet…
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This is not the appropriate spot for this video but since it is apropos to the recent posts, I figured why not. You actually can’t hear those beautiful motors growl but that’s the fault of my ancient iPhone, the growl was there. Foreground is the tiller. It steers the nosewheel (of course) and also moves with rudder input during the takeoff roll. The flight was today, UAL 1593 to San Diego.
(Yes, I have spindly little arms. 
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I guess that we should address you as Capt from now on 
. Love it. I remember when they were brand new. Doesn’t seem that long ago really. What an airplane. Will be sad when they are all either relegated to air firefight or join the 3 holers in the desert.
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My FO today is a former Marine Harrier dude. He’s leaving the fleet in a couple of weeks for the 737. He figures, correctly, that he will probably never see the 7-5 again. He hates the thought of leaving it. Half the flight I had to explain the ways that the 7-3 isn’t so bad. He wasn’t buying it. He knew that it just can’t get any better. I then said, “Well this thing’s a bus. What about the Harrier?!”
“Yeah, the Harrier was cool but the job sucked.”
“Other Marines and RAF pilots I’ve flown with told me it was a deathtrap.”
“Yep. It was that. It’s the only airplane I ever flew where, after I parked it and started walking toward the hangar, I would look over my shoulder to make sure it wasn’t chasing after me.”
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Best quote ever. Love it.
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Ha! Have to write that one down. Did you ask him if he knew about the DCS AV-8B?