Just to let you know, the DC-9 is, was a Regional Jet

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Yeah, but someone had to know the memory items for the engine starts and figure out how to feed fuel to those thirsty JT3's.

FWIW the "Spirit of Delta" the 767-200 in their ATL museum has a FE spot and there is much less to do on a 767 than there is a DC-9.

Makes for a nice, roomy, cockpit. Looks like my wife's aerobics classroom, with a few more lights and a few less hotties.

 

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You are correct. I was one of them. Started in DC-3's and Convairs in 1959 at North Central and retired as a B-747-400 capt on international pay.

It was later that things fell apart. I do believe a great part of it was because of APA and AA getting Eagle into the tent. That and the AA "B" scale. Now APA wants to get everything back since 1992. Fat chance IMHO.

Standing by for incoming....

DC

Thank you for posting. People are forgetting what a union is supposed to be working towards and it seems like ALPA is just marketing itself as a "legal services plan." My Dad went from a 747 driver to a gas station attendant (his station) and thought he might be out of the business when his airline got bought out. Thank's to what ALPA was, he retired from Fed Ex.

 

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Thank you for posting. People are forgetting what a union is supposed to be working towards and it seems like ALPA is just marketing itself as a "legal services plan." My Dad went from a 747 driver to a gas station attendant (his station) and thought he might be out of the business when his airline got bought out. Thank's to what ALPA was, he retired from Fed Ex.

Was he a Flying Tiger?

 

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Back in the early 1980's:

PIA-ORD 113nm United 727
PIA-STL 119nm Ozark DC-9

There were smoking sections, too.

United still runs two 757 a day from November through april from ORD TO GRR
Total distance 118.6NM.