on 30/3/02 0:37, Scott Kinniburgh at SKinniburg@aol.com wrote: > Flew NW 35/34 a few times SFO-BOS-GLA (direct service... and with a plane > change) 2 out of the 4 times we made a fuel stop in YYR (Goose Bay) on the > inbound crossing... Thought the range on a DC10-30/40 made it across the > atlantic (gla-bos). In 1991 the bos-gla flight was under 5 hrs...love those > tailwinds..... > > Scott-SFO > Fan of No Gander No Goose (thanks AC) > Jim- will email you when I arrive in GLA (April 9th) to see if i can find > time for some spotting.. Scott, wow, you stopped at Goose! I flew the route mostly between March and October, about twelve roundtrips, and never went anything but direct. I know that NW here in Scotland would have considered a 747 on the route, and they could have used the underbelly cargo capacity, but two problems prevented them using them : 1 - Glasgow's runway with a cargo heavy DC10 is marginal at 8900ft, and 2 - Much of the traffic was coach, there just weren't enough suckers at the rip off end. Jim Fan of a 5 hour transatlantic journey.... (If you get the time, send me an e-mail when you are over, though I'm in Portugal from 8-13th. )