I remember flying from YOW to YVR in the tail of a CP Air DC8-63. By the time the tail was 50 ft off the ground the crew were already listening to the YVR ATIS :-) Mike Gammon ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Mueller" <dmueller7@lycos.com> To: <AIRLINE@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU> Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 3:40 PM Subject: Re: Need a Flying Limousine? Climb Aboard a Boeing 717 > On Friday, January 24, 2003, at 08:08 AM, Matthew Sheren wrote: > > > And besides, haven't we learned > > > > that shrunken planes (A318, A342, 737-600) just don't work? > > But the 717 does, because the -200 is actually a stretch! > > The 717-100 would go back to about the size of the original design, the > DC-9-10. > > DC engineers were such masters of the stretched airplane (DC-8, > DC-9/MD-80, and even DC-10/MD-11) that we forget just how small they > started out as. > > -- > David Mueller / HNL > dmueller7@lycos.com > http://www.quanterium.com > > *** Read the Airline List FAQ at http://airlinefaq.tripod.com *** >