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Apr 18, 2023 | 9:46 pm

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Tanic

Join Date: May 2002

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Originally Posted by born sleepy

I swear some of those old beaters were the same Hughes Airwest planes (via the Republic merger) I flew on when I was a kid.

Some of the DC9s from (maybe it was North Central), and RW and RC were model 10s. The seals around the emergency exits would leak so badly that you needed a heavy coat in the exit row.

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