a300boy
Well-Known Member
How can you say that Mr Aviador it was the queen of the skies !I was never a big fan of the 727 if I'm honest. They always liked they were under powered on take off.
The under powered bit was mostly because of the Pratt and Whitney JT8 engines being noisy so we had to reduce to a 1.65 Epr power setting at 1000 ft to meet the noise limits around airports we used which was like going up Garrowby Hill in 3rd gear.
We also carried 189 passengers plus bags on the 200 series and regularly took off at Max take of weight to the Canaries from Manchester which was about the max range of the aircraft with reserves.
When I joined DHL and we were flying parcels around at much lighter take off weights I could not believe the performance of this beautiful aircraft.