Newsgroups: sci.aeronautics.airliners Path: news From: ncole@nyx.cs.du.edu (Noah Cole) Subject: Re: The Sporty Game -- Boeing 757 X-Submission-Date: Tue, 1 Dec 92 18:10:57 GMT References: Message-ID: Approved: kls@ohare.Chicago.COM Organization: Macalester College, St. Paul Minnesota USA Sender: kls@ohare.Chicago.COM X-Submission-Message-Id: <1992Dec1.181057.11073@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> Date: 01 Dec 92 23:15:21 PST gregory@bcstec.ca.boeing.com (Greg Wright) writes: > I think that you will find that every attempt at a shortened version >of one of our planes has had limited success. Take the 747SP for example. >Airlines tend not to like the sorted versions very much. In $/seat or $/mile >these versions are too expensive to run. There is a real problem having >too much engine or wing with them. We find it is better to stretch if >anything.... >Greg How many airlines use 747SP's today? I have a poster from Popular Mechanics that was around the arrival of the 747-400 with a drawing of a United 747SP and it said that the 747SP set a record flying from Payne Field, Washington to South Africa. Was that SAA? Who flies the 747SP Today and on what routes? -Noah Cole -- Noah Cole "Outside is America, NCOLE@MACALSTR.EDU Macalester College and also the car park" ncole@nyx.cs.du.edu St. Paul, MN 55105 - Bono, 27 December 1989 cncole@coos.dartmouth.edu 612-696-7388 Dublin aj909@cleveland.freenet.edu