Identifying make/model of AA planes from the outside
Jun 8, 2009, 8:31 am
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Thank you toall. To summarize:
MD80 - engines in back
737 - cigar end, engines in front of wings. Do these have winglets? What is the "ridge at the base"?
757 - cigar end, have winglets. Bigger then 737. Any other way to differentiate between 737,757,767?
777 - screwdriver end.
I guess I should spend more time looking at read ends
MD80 - engines in back
737 - cigar end, engines in front of wings. Do these have winglets? What is the "ridge at the base"?
757 - cigar end, have winglets. Bigger then 737. Any other way to differentiate between 737,757,767?
777 - screwdriver end.
I guess I should spend more time looking at read ends
Jun 12, 2009, 1:09 pm
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(And if you're into booking exit row seats, you probably know most of this already in the back of your head, you just have to turn it "inside out" to think how the exit row number differences on each plane would look from the outside.)
Jun 12, 2009, 2:40 pm
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Jun 12, 2009, 11:57 pm
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Level with the bottom of the A's in the AA on the tail in the picture, look to the right and you can see where the slope of the tail has a kink in it. Only the 737's in AA's fleet have these kinked tails. All of them have winglets.
Jun 14, 2009, 3:09 am
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Jun 14, 2009, 3:22 am
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I seem to recall that Boeing maybe had an anniversary about a year or so ago, and there was a very good picture of all their 7x7 series planes in a row (707, 717, 727, 737, 747, 757, 767, 777, prototype 787?)
I've spent some time searching for the thread here and at airliner.net without any luck yet.
Anyone else have a link to it?
Thanks,
Steve
I've spent some time searching for the thread here and at airliner.net without any luck yet.
Anyone else have a link to it?
Thanks,
Steve