LOL - the good old "diesel-9". I've been a Northwest (sadly now
Delta) frequent flyer for many years and have flown countless miles
on them. That writer had it wrong - most of those birds were born in
the early-mid 60s, so quite likely older than the pilot's car (older
than the pilot quite possibly). Reliable like my Spitfire - not as
much to break!
Kevin Rhodes
Westbrook, Maine
Freddy the mongrel Spitfire (owned 15 years in July - good grief, how
old does that make ME!?)
At 08:17 AM 5/3/2010, Doug Mitchell wrote:
>From the Detroit Free Press, Sunday 05-02-2010
in a travel section article:
Planes: All except two were your basic crowded
Boeing 737s or Airbus A319s.
The smallest was
a surprisingly comfortable 60-seat Embraer RJ145
from Houston
to Mexico City. The oldest was a
1970s B-era DC-9 on a Delta route between
Detroit
and Hartford, Conn. When things got bumpy, that
DC-9 bounced around
like a dog on a trampoline.
bWhen are you going to get rid of this old
plane?bI
asked the pilot as we were exiting. He grinned and
said he loved
flyB-ing it because it was reliable and
like driving his old TriB-umph sports
car.
B
B
Doug Mitchell
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