From The Parking Deck

"f86sabre" (f86sabre) 09/09/2016 at 15:14 • Filed to: Planelopnik

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Not a bad view in the morning.

Viggen > f86sabre 09/09/2016 at 15:23

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A 757 never makes a bad view.

Ash78, voting early and often > Viggen 09/09/2016 at 15:34

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In person, a 757 always looks like a Weimaraner puppy with that body-to-engine ratio, plus dat ground clearance!

jimz > f86sabre 09/09/2016 at 15:54

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when did the 757 get winglets?

Jcarr > jimz 09/09/2016 at 15:59

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2005

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_75…

ttyymmnn > Viggen 09/09/2016 at 16:30

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It looks particularly nice wearing Raymond Loewy.

ttyymmnn > Ash78, voting early and often 09/09/2016 at 16:30

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Ash78, voting early and often > ttyymmnn 09/09/2016 at 16:32

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That's the shot. WHAT A CUTE WITTLE DOGGIE! The most precious and adorable of all the widebodies!

Thomas Donohue > f86sabre 09/09/2016 at 16:46

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United (aka Continental) still flies these from Newark to Shannon, Dublin and Heathrow. Great plane, but not much fun to do the overnight/overseas flight in a narrowbody. They’ve been announcing the ‘end’ of the 757-200 for years now, but it just keeps on flying.

Thomas Donohue > Ash78, voting early and often 09/09/2016 at 16:47

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Widebody? I wish. Only one aisle in that narrow bird.

ttyymmnn > Ash78, voting early and often 09/09/2016 at 16:48

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And quite the hotrod. From my Aviation History post about the 757:

And, in 1991, in a display of the 757's short field prowess, and as a testament to the power of modern jet engines, a 757 took off from the Gonggar Airport in Tibet at an elevation of 11,621 feet, circled and landed safely all on a single engine.

Ash78, voting early and often > Thomas Donohue 09/09/2016 at 16:57

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Really? I could swear it was 2/3/2, but it looks like it's just 3/3. I've had so few chances to fly on them, everything I do is either Regional Jet, 737 or 767. This is sort of in between the latter two.

Ash78, voting early and often > ttyymmnn 09/09/2016 at 16:58

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I remember those days — a lot of people doubted the power on twin-engine jets, but were pretty quickly convinced.

ttyymmnn > Ash78, voting early and often 09/09/2016 at 17:03

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The 757 is classified as a narrow-body.

Thomas Donohue > Ash78, voting early and often 09/09/2016 at 17:16

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The 767 is a widebody. I believe it was developed in conjunction with the 757. The 757 has longer range and capacity than the 737 variants (larger wings and more fuel), but on the inside they are both pretty much identical in size.

ttyymmnn > f86sabre 09/09/2016 at 17:36

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The $64,000 question: What is Boeing going to do to replace the 757? Make bigger 737s?

f86sabre > Thomas Donohue 09/09/2016 at 17:56

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I've made that flight on DL. The new seats help a lot.

f86sabre > ttyymmnn 09/09/2016 at 17:57

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Rumor is they are starting to ponder that.

ttyymmnn > f86sabre 09/09/2016 at 18:15

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Ponder want? Making bigger 73s? Aren't they about as big as they can get?

WilliamsSW > ttyymmnn 09/09/2016 at 22:12

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I’m not sure, but I thought that the 737-900s that UAL and others are flying now were pretty close to a 757-200 in seating capacity. I think the -900 is the de facto replacement. Those things are REALLY long- like the A321, it’s easy to imagine over rotating and dragging the tail on takeoff.

f86sabre > ttyymmnn 09/09/2016 at 22:59

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The -900 is pretty much as long as it can get without redesign of the wing box and the landing gear. The tires are pretty much maxed out as well. Boeing put as much tire in there as the structure could take due to burst tests.

Boeing is looking at a replacement for the 757 that would fall between the 737-Max and 787.