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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2010 21:25:49 GMT -5
I am not a big fan of modern heavy iron. The smell of jet fuel turns my stomach! But, I have to admit i do enjoy flying the wonderful first generation of passenger jets. Yes, they changed our world, our lives, and they way the airlines do business. These changes have generally been for the worst, but the first generation are fantastic machines. You still had to fly em, like our beloved prop planes. here is the first of many screens of the early jets i hope to have here. The jets i use are from HJG, I am not a big fan of Captain Sim's 707, but I love HJG's B707-120s A TWA Boeing 707-120 (N735TW) flying west near Fresno, California at 15,000 feet at a speed of 320 knots IAS. She is wearing the 1959 livery for jets. The B707-120 was the Transcontinental model introduced in 1959. (Sorry, to our pilots, but i put this in for the benefit of the ones looking to educate themselves on our beloved aircraft.)
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2010 7:55:49 GMT -5
The Intercontinental model of 1959 was the Boeing 707-320 A TWA Boeing 707-320 (N761TW) flying at 15,000 feet off the coast of Southern California at a speed of 330 knots IAS
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2010 9:15:05 GMT -5
As you can tell I love the Boeing 707 line of planes. Here is the prototype of the line. I recreated one of the test flights that took place from Boeing Field. The scene is 1954, and the future is preparing to take off. Boeing 367-80 prototype (N70700) in house colors on a test flight from Boeing Field, located in Seattle, Washington
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Post by Tom/CalClassic on Apr 18, 2010 9:50:58 GMT -5
Classic planes for sure, if not classic propliners. Thanks,
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Post by louross on Apr 18, 2010 10:17:00 GMT -5
Question: Would it be possible to use either the word "beloved" (very appropriate, btw) or the word "sacred" in this case?
But, it's a personal thing, (not really tho), I prefer the DC8. However, the programming of the Boeings in HJG is better than that of the 8's.
Not free, but the Dreamfleet 727 is definitely worth the money.
lr.
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Post by Pixel Pilot on Apr 18, 2010 10:18:41 GMT -5
The future took a little longer in the fifties as well because Gen. Curtiss Lemay, commander of SAC bought the initial production of 707s as tankers. The airlines had to wait until 1959 to get them into service. Thanks for the screen shots and the memories. I used to see the occasional TWA 707 coming and going from Lambert International in St. Louis. Ed
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2010 11:22:38 GMT -5
Ed, the future did have to wait for US Air Force contract to be completed, but if it wasn't for that USAF contract I wonder if we would have had the Boeing 707? Boeing used the program that developed the C-135 and KC-135 to finance the prototype jet liner. In the end it was probably a fair trade considering the USAF payed most of the development cost for the airlines.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2010 12:15:02 GMT -5
Some more 707 memories!!! When I was growing up I remember watching Boeing 707s from American Airlines flying into Tulsa International. They used the scheme they pretty much use today, but I have always loved the Jet Flagship scheme and the Astrojet scheme of the 1960's Unlike TWA and Pan American, in 1959, American didn't really come up with a new scheme to throw on their jets. they pretty much used what was already seen to their brand. They modified the Flagship scheme to give us this wonderful bird. American Airlines flew the wonderful Boeing 707-120 Jet Flagship Missouri (N7515A).
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Post by brn1976 on Apr 18, 2010 16:36:31 GMT -5
as beautiful the 707 is, I prefer the DC-8 and even more the VC-10 when flying jet.
In my AI-universe of 1963 BOAC actually never acquired the 707 but took delivery of the VC-10 instead already 1 year earlier ;D
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Post by Tom/CalClassic on Apr 18, 2010 20:13:44 GMT -5
Two other airlines that didn't use a new livery on their jets were Braniff and Trans-Canada.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2010 20:54:41 GMT -5
Yes I will fly the DC-8, but I just don't have the same attraction to her as i do the B707 United Airlines DC-8-10 (N8004U) as she appeared in 1959 livery
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2010 22:47:00 GMT -5
The beginning for Douglas jet travel Douglas DC-8 "Ship One" (N8008D) Study her size compared to the Lockheed Constellation parked beside her
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2010 0:53:35 GMT -5
To our British friends go the honor of the first revenuer jet service in the form of the de Havilland Comet BOAC de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1 (G-ALYP) on a flight over Southern England
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Post by Piston Paul on Apr 20, 2010 15:07:18 GMT -5
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Post by okami on Apr 20, 2010 16:05:30 GMT -5
Don't forget the other classic jetliners of the time - the "baby" 720, the Comet 4 series, the Caravelle, the VC-10, the (then still) de Havilland DH-121, and of course the Tupolev 104 and 124!
(I'd love to post some pics of them, but I'm not current on any of them right now... even though all of them are in my hangar! ;D )
I guess that only leaves out the Avro Canada C102 Jetliner - anybody ever made a model of that one for FS9/FSX?
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