Sonic Cruzer
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- Mar 13, 2002
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Patmack18 said:I seem to remember reading in Aviation Week that Boeing had come up with a 737 varient it was pitching at the Navy to take over the roll for the P-3 as far as the USW mission. Anyone else head of this?
That took place before I took mil leave from flight test. The company did a 2 week demonstration tour for the Navy with a
-700 variant (might have even been a BBJ1). The test pilots doing the demo had Navy backgrounds. Naval aviators at several locations got the opportunity to fly the airplane on simulated maritime missions. According to our pilots, the Navy evaluators who initially scoffed at the idea of an "airliner" perorming the mission were pleasantly surprised and impressed by the airplane's agility and low speed handling.