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I don't care..I'm just telling you the SouthWorst Pilots won't be fired over that

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The airline I worked for, pilots were required to report all bird strikes and maintenance was required to do an inspection before the plane could go back into service.

Had more then one delay and cancelled flight because maintenance wasn't available in a reasonable time to keep the flight on the schedule. (I worked in a field station so we only had overnight maintenance, any issues during the day either resulted in a cancelled flight, or a very delayed flight while we waited for maintenance to come in from home as they only worked 6pm to 6am)

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Lucky you, so few 100's were made not many got to fly it.

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OMG...5 fire trucks where on the runway with us, the plane was towed into a hanger and probably out of service for a week- Everybody was notified- We jumped in another plane and left...

Forget about that guys- There are probably hundreds of bird strikes a day- You act like i'm making some kind of fantastical claims?

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There still flying...100's of them...With the old engines, it is one of the most popular aircraft of all times

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That's the -200.

The last -100 was retired in 1997.

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No. Get your facts straight, only 30 were made, of which the last was delivered in October 1969. See fourth paragraph, here.

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Retired from what? An Airline? They are everwhere-I saw one the other day..Furthermore I said that happened in 93.

Listen, don't believe me, I did'nt happen, its too far fetched to believe... You said some ridiculous things about the Southwest incident and I called you on it...

Lets move on

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If it has the old engines, I call it a 100...Miami air is flying one, I just saw it, but i'm not an airplane groupie, I could be wrong....i'm just a guy with over 8,000 hours of PIC time logged in 30 different aircraft types..

Whata want, pictures?

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NASA. The -100 wasn't in service with airlines at the time.


The -200 series was produced in great numbers and had the same old engines. That was in service well into the 2000s. Not sure if it still is anymore.

I'm less concerned about the validity of your sorry than I am with being pedantic about aircraft variants.

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You can call it a goose for all I care, but calling it a 737-100 doesn't make it a 737-100 if Boeing doesn't call it a 737-100. :rolleyes:

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Gotta love those old low-bypass turbofans. The CFMs on retrofitted DC-8s (most of UPSs fleet when it was still flying them) were my particular favourites.

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I love the sound of old engines in general. The sound of the VC-10s coming into RAF Aldergrove back home was quite a good one.

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Congratulations...You know more about some planes than the pilots that fly them..My father retired as a 777 captain and my brother flys A-340's (correct me if i'm wrong) for Sri Lanka Airlines- My eyes glaze over when he starts talking about it.. A-340 I think..4 engines, Columbo to London twice a week?

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Nobody who flew them loved them, they had no power...I remember taking off at Ohare fully bulked out with cargo, and I waited for the train to go by off the end of the runway because I was worried about hitting it..