Outside of our circle where it does have a specific meaning, the term "small jet" is just relative: a few years ago when waiting to board a 737 that was parked next to a couple of heavies my wife had a minor panic attack about going on another "small airplane" - we'd had a particularly bumpy ride on a Dornier a few months previously which she had definitely not enjoyed.
I'll leave the last word to my two year old daughter, who I take to both PHL and PNE sometimes to watch the airplanes: last week at PHL after a couple of the bigger 'busses departed in a row, the MD-80 that was next was "a baby one"... later the same day at PNE after watching a handful of Pipers and Cessnas in the pattern an arriving King-Air was "a big big one, too noisy"
I'll leave the last word to my two year old daughter, who I take to both PHL and PNE sometimes to watch the airplanes: last week at PHL after a couple of the bigger 'busses departed in a row, the MD-80 that was next was "a baby one"... later the same day at PNE after watching a handful of Pipers and Cessnas in the pattern an arriving King-Air was "a big big one, too noisy"
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