Post by aerofoto - HJG Admin on Apr 10, 2017 7:30:54 GMT
Consider this week "B737 WEEK" 
This week 50 years ago .... on April 9th 1967 to be precise .... the B737 flew for the very first time and some 2 years after its launching by BOEING.
Departing from Boeing Field, Seattle, Washington, in the USA, the maiden flight on the B737 was commanded by BOEING's Director Of flight Operations and Chief Test Pilot Brien WYGLE, and with Lew WALLICK acting as copilot for this historic flight.
On it's first ever flight the aircraft .... B737-100, N73700, L/N # 1, C/N # 19437 .... remained airborne over some 2 hours and 30 minutes prior to landing at Paine Field, Washington, and from where all future flight testing later proceeded in advance of the B737-100's FAA certification on December 15th 1967.
"Beautiful Handling .... Very Nimble" .... and "Very Responsive" .... were the test crews enthusiastic acclamations of this smallest member among the BOEING family of civil jetliners .... sentiments which are still echoed today, 50 years later, by B737 pilots all around the world.
Marketed first as the B737-100 (a slightly smaller aircraft than the later -200 .... and its succeeding and progressively larger and more advanced B737-300/-400/-500 .... and more recent hi-tech NG and MAX B737-600/-700/-800/and -900 NG family member developments) .... the B737, in company with both the B727 and B707, enabled BOEING to offer a complete line of civil jetliners tailored for short, medium, and long range airline requirements.
To a say the B737's debut represented the birth of a legend or star would probably be the aviation understatement of the century. Well in excess of 9,400 B737 airframes have been produced by BOEING since 1967. More than 1,200 of the type are airborne around the world at any moment of the day. And the type still remains in production today having evolved to become the greatest success in the history of US civil aircraft production .... if not the worlds best selling twin-jet airliner.
The B737 has been instrumental in the success of airlines around the world .... be it in freight or PAX configuration .... there's little this versatile little aircraft can't accomplish impressively, efficiently, and economically.
Few of the worlds major carriers haven't flown the B737 at some stage of their operational history and since these aircraft first entered service during 1968.
Since 1967 the B737 has played a major role in ensuring BOEING's success and dominance within the world civil aviation market and its internationally respected reputation for quality aerospace products as a "leading plane maker to the world".
"BOEING 737 WEEK"
Since this's "B737 WEEK" .... the following presentation is a pictorial tribute to the classic members of the B737 family (B737-200 through -500 .... the B737-100 being unavailable at the moment unfortunately) among this capable and versatile jetliner family.
PLEASE NOTE: Despite its similarity of introductory text .... this presentation (it's subject matter) has "no relationship" with HJG's B737 product announcement on the "NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS" forum page
B737-200
B737-300
B737-400
B737-500
Add your own imagery to this thread .... if you wish to .... in celebration of "B737 WEEK" .... B737's "ONLY" though please.
Any other aircraft imagery "will be" shot down immediately upon sight
Mark C
AKL/NZ
This week 50 years ago .... on April 9th 1967 to be precise .... the B737 flew for the very first time and some 2 years after its launching by BOEING.
Departing from Boeing Field, Seattle, Washington, in the USA, the maiden flight on the B737 was commanded by BOEING's Director Of flight Operations and Chief Test Pilot Brien WYGLE, and with Lew WALLICK acting as copilot for this historic flight.
On it's first ever flight the aircraft .... B737-100, N73700, L/N # 1, C/N # 19437 .... remained airborne over some 2 hours and 30 minutes prior to landing at Paine Field, Washington, and from where all future flight testing later proceeded in advance of the B737-100's FAA certification on December 15th 1967.
"Beautiful Handling .... Very Nimble" .... and "Very Responsive" .... were the test crews enthusiastic acclamations of this smallest member among the BOEING family of civil jetliners .... sentiments which are still echoed today, 50 years later, by B737 pilots all around the world.
Marketed first as the B737-100 (a slightly smaller aircraft than the later -200 .... and its succeeding and progressively larger and more advanced B737-300/-400/-500 .... and more recent hi-tech NG and MAX B737-600/-700/-800/and -900 NG family member developments) .... the B737, in company with both the B727 and B707, enabled BOEING to offer a complete line of civil jetliners tailored for short, medium, and long range airline requirements.
To a say the B737's debut represented the birth of a legend or star would probably be the aviation understatement of the century. Well in excess of 9,400 B737 airframes have been produced by BOEING since 1967. More than 1,200 of the type are airborne around the world at any moment of the day. And the type still remains in production today having evolved to become the greatest success in the history of US civil aircraft production .... if not the worlds best selling twin-jet airliner.
The B737 has been instrumental in the success of airlines around the world .... be it in freight or PAX configuration .... there's little this versatile little aircraft can't accomplish impressively, efficiently, and economically.
Few of the worlds major carriers haven't flown the B737 at some stage of their operational history and since these aircraft first entered service during 1968.
Since 1967 the B737 has played a major role in ensuring BOEING's success and dominance within the world civil aviation market and its internationally respected reputation for quality aerospace products as a "leading plane maker to the world".
"BOEING 737 WEEK"
Since this's "B737 WEEK" .... the following presentation is a pictorial tribute to the classic members of the B737 family (B737-200 through -500 .... the B737-100 being unavailable at the moment unfortunately) among this capable and versatile jetliner family.
PLEASE NOTE: Despite its similarity of introductory text .... this presentation (it's subject matter) has "no relationship" with HJG's B737 product announcement on the "NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS" forum page
B737-200
B737-300
B737-400
B737-500
Add your own imagery to this thread .... if you wish to .... in celebration of "B737 WEEK" .... B737's "ONLY" though please.
Any other aircraft imagery "will be" shot down immediately upon sight
Mark C
AKL/NZ
