Long Body is Best Body

"Jcarr" (jcarr) 11/09/2015 at 15:28 • Filed to: Planelopnik

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I used to not like the way the 757 looked, but it’s really grown on me. Particularly in -300 guise.

Bonus Northwest Orient -200 because look at that livery.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Jcarr 11/09/2015 at 15:31

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The 300 looks like a flying pencil.

Ash78, voting early and often > Jcarr 11/09/2015 at 15:32

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I always thought they looked pretty cool, sort of like a Great Dane puppy that hasn’t grown into his body yet (the 767 is the mommy).

ttyymmnn > Jcarr 11/09/2015 at 16:01

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Ah, the eternal question: What’s better, length or width?

Jcarr > ttyymmnn 11/09/2015 at 16:04

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Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > Jcarr 11/09/2015 at 16:06

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It kind of looks like it’s bent in Delta livery.

Interesting trivia tidbit you probably know but I still have to show off with: the 707, 720, 727, 737 and 757 all share the same fuselage.

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > ttyymmnn 11/09/2015 at 16:07

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In this case, stretch a 707 as far as possible is best.

ttyymmnn > Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer 11/09/2015 at 16:09

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That would be the DC-8-63F.

Jcarr > Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer 11/09/2015 at 16:09

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I thought the same thing.

Didn’t know that about the fuselage. More than just the same diameter?

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > ttyymmnn 11/09/2015 at 16:12

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Well, technically it would be an Intercontinental 707, but seeing as the 707, 720, 727, 737 and 757 all share a fuselage I figured I could get away with it.

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > Jcarr 11/09/2015 at 16:17

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Yeah, they were all the same fuselage design.

707 - Baseline

720 - Shortened 707

707 Intercontinental - Lengthened 707

727 used the same fuselage again to keep tooling costs (and maintenance costs for the airlines) down

737 - same idea. That’s why early models look so stubby

757 - Interim measure (that stuck, funny how often that happens) to replace the 727. Same fuselage, just modernized systems and new wings/tail

brjklein > Jcarr 11/09/2015 at 16:26

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For me, it’s all about the wide-bodies. A380s, 787s in particular. Multiple pass overhead at about 7,000ft every day en route to SFO.

Jcarr > brjklein 11/09/2015 at 16:28

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I love me some widebodies. The 777 (in -300ER, or the soon to be -9 form) is my favorite commercial craft.

DarkCreamyBeer > Jcarr 11/09/2015 at 17:17

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I see your DL 757-300, and raise you a Delta DC-8-61.

DarkCreamyBeer > ttyymmnn 11/09/2015 at 17:18

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Dang, beat me to it.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Jcarr 11/11/2015 at 15:56

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I’m partial to the look of the original length. Between the big engines, tall gear and lower cockpit (same assembly as the 767, just mounted differently, hence the step down into the cockpit), the -200 is amongst the best looking airliners out there IMHO.

They did propose shorter -100 versions of the 757/767, but nobody was interested, so it was the -200 versions that got built first.

Now there’s talk of a replacement for the 757 (and upper end of the 737 range) that will most likely be a small twin aisle aircraft, very similar in size and seating to this unsold 767-100 concept from 30+ years ago. What goes around comes around...