Keep Oppo Piedmont

"For Sweden" (rallybeetle) 08/06/2015 at 10:44 • Filed to: Piedmont Airlines, Piedmont, Boeing 737, Boeing, 737, Planelopnik

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Roundbadge > For Sweden 08/06/2015 at 10:48

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Dat -200...

Jcarr > For Sweden 08/06/2015 at 10:49

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Polished aluminum cigars. Beautiful.

ttyymmnn > For Sweden 08/06/2015 at 10:50

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We flew Piedmont regularly when I was a kid. Love the retro livery.

f86sabre > For Sweden 08/06/2015 at 10:57

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Skin cracks on the 737-200/-300 pretty much paid off my college loans. Lap splices, scribe lines, door corners and the skin aft of the wings.

Ash78, voting early and often > For Sweden 08/06/2015 at 11:00

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Wow, this brings back a lot memories of flying from FL to MN as a kid in the late 80s. You might as well post some pics of Kirby Puckett and a bunch of dead fish to make the memory complete :D

Slant6 > For Sweden 08/06/2015 at 11:08

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Never seen one in real life though.

For Sweden > f86sabre 08/06/2015 at 11:12

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Do you know how people in the paint shop feel about retro liveries? I thought of this when I saw a picture of American’s retro Piedmont livery.

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > For Sweden 08/06/2015 at 11:16

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Keep Oppo blue goose.

Margin Of Error > For Sweden 08/06/2015 at 11:32

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Keep Oppo Trident

f86sabre > For Sweden 08/06/2015 at 12:05

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They love them. We did up our 757 for our museum in retro paint. When the company turned 75 they painted 102 in the same colors as our DC-3. They then painted it back into the old school widget prior to it going to the museum.

Our paint guys have a wall of fame with some of the cooler paint jobs we’ve done. We painted the King of Jordan’s L1011, a 727 for some rich dude with gold leaf on the vertical stab, Chilean Air Force, a 747 for United (yes!) and a bunch of others.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > For Sweden 08/06/2015 at 12:08

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This was local, but I don’t recall having read about it before. The “new investigation” stuff, though - the fuck? How do you “spend several years” studying an accident and base one of your claims on “if the 727 crew hadn’t been distracted, they could have dodged a Cessna Like Unto A Kind Of Wizard”? Also, “the transcript doesn’t note something that people *listening to the tapes* bothered to mention”? GMAFB. It’s like trying to relitigate a train/car accident.

For Sweden > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/06/2015 at 12:17

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I don’t mind re-opening investigations if there is new evidence; there was no new evidence in that case.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > For Sweden 08/06/2015 at 12:20

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“A Bored Insane Person Decided That Piedmont and the FAA Were an Evil Conspiracy for No Damn Reason” should be the subhed in the Wikipedia article.

For Sweden > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/06/2015 at 12:21

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Just like the guy who still thinks TWA 800 was shot down.

Jetstreamer > f86sabre 08/06/2015 at 12:24

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Did someone not close that rear door on the 757 completely or did one of you guys mess up the alignment?

j/k

blackchair > f86sabre 08/06/2015 at 13:20

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Awesome! I’ve been wanting to visit the museum. I hope one day they send me down for training.

f86sabre > blackchair 08/06/2015 at 14:24

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It’s pretty cool. There are some good displays and they’ve done a good job with the inside of 102.

Jonee > For Sweden 08/06/2015 at 14:26

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I still wear this t-shirt I got many years ago.

The Transporter > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/06/2015 at 18:33

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I’m just amazed that Piedmont used a 727 for a milk run between AVL and ROA.