XB-70 Guy said:Could the M-plane be from Martin?
Boeing looked at making a rear engined 737.
Triton said:Boeing 717 as in the re-branded McDonnell Douglas MD-95? Or are you referring to another Boeing 717?
To help speed things up, Stirling Dynamics has contracted with WheelTug to design a new nose wheel for Boeing's 737NG jet airliner. The new wheel will contain electric motors powered by the aircraft's Auxiliary Power Unit (APU)
The oldest passenger planes still in the sky
How would you feel about flying in a plane built 50 years ago? We go in search of aviation’s most venerable birdswww.telegraph.co.uk
Would you feel uneasy flying on a plane built in 1974? Harold Wilson was enjoying his second stint in Number 10, the band Queen was in its pomp, man’s first small step on the surface of the moon was still relatively fresh in the memory. And 1974 was also the year that a Boeing 737-200, with the serial number 20836, made its maiden flight for Transavia Airlines, based in the Netherlands.
Forty-eight years on, Harold Wilson has shuffled off this mortal coil, as has Freddie, while Nasa is hoping to start a colony on Mars. But 20836 is still going strong in the services of Nolinor Aviation, a Canadian charter airline, under the registration C-GNLK.
Its journey from Holland to Quebec has been a circuitous one, covering five continents. After leaving the low-cost Dutch airline in 1977 it went to Saudia, then Aerolineas Argentinas. Next up was the now-defunct Australian Airlines, followed by Air Florida, another former carrier. MarkAir, based in Alaska (also deceased), came next, before a stint as a cargo plane. In 2004, it went to Peru. In 2006, it was bought by the short-lived Italian airline Voliamo. In 2008, CityLine Hungary – which ceased trading in 2015 – snapped up the well travelled 737.
Since 2014, however, it has been in the services of little Nolinor Aviation, based in Mirabel, a suburb of Montreal, which serves a handful of domestic destinations using a fleet of 18 aircraft. At 48 years, it is, according to the database of Airfleets.net, the world’s oldest passenger plane still in service.
Apples and oranges. DC-3s are not pressurized. B-52s are not utilized anywhere near as intensively as airliners, particularly short-haul airliners. A 737 goes through many more take-offs and landings and many more pressurization, depressurization cycles. So metal fatigue is more of a worry.You might also ask those flying on DC-3s or B-52s. As long as they have been properly maintained and upgraded, it is not an unmanageable problem.
This 737 side view image is amazing .Here's a brochure produced fairly late in the development of theworld's most successful jetliner737-100 showing a different aft fuselage profile. Since the 707, all Boeing jetliners (the 727 doesn't count) have had a similar upswept rear fuselage, but this drawing shows that this wasn't always a given. It seems kind of dumpy-looking in this configuration and I think that the final shape is an aesthetic improvement. I wonder if this was a purely engineering-driven change or if someone insisted on more of a family resemblance for marketing reasons.
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Sorry, I've recently moved and the brochure is not immediately available to me. I'll post a non-angled photo once I can, but it probably won't be soon. The photo was angled to eliminate reflections. I think Photoshop or similar software can correct for the angle.This 737 side view image is amazing .
May I ask you to take photo from this side view more vertically in such a way that the outline of the 737 can be corrected ? It seems that you have taken a photo by some angle and the side view is not exactly same one in the original document .
If you scan the original document I think the right view will be obtained .
I am a scale modeller and I need the three view of this 737 100 conceptual model which is even different than the original 737 100 originally developed and flew by the Boeing company ..the angles of the aircraft in this masterpiece are very important and thats why I am asking your help to assist me to obtain the threeview
I would appreciate it should you help me .