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The 757-300, the stretched and longest version of the Boeing 757 variants, entered service with Condor in 1999. [71] With a length of 178.7 ft (54.5 m), the type is the longest single-aisle twinjet ever built, [ 71 ] coming in just shorter than the 187.4 ft (57.1 m) quad-jet DC-8-61/63 .
Airlines commonly order aircraft with special features or options, but Boeing builds certain models specifically for a particular customer. The Boeing 707-138B was a shortened-fuselage, long-range model only sold to Qantas. The Boeing 757-200M was a single-example model built for Royal Nepal Airlines (now called Nepal Airlines). This plane ...
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Boeing 747X: 1996: 465.53 tons 747-400 stretch, Airbus A3XX competitor Boeing Pelican: 2002: 2657.36 tons Ground effect and medium altitude transport Airbus A380-900: 2006: 580.68 tons Airbus A380-800 stretch, postponed in May 2010 [6] TsAGI HCA-LB: current: 984.21 tons Ground effect aircraft powered by LNG: WindRunner: current
"The original 757-200 entered service in 1983 while the 757-200PF, a package freighter (PF) variant, and the 757-200M, a passenger-freighter combi model, debuted in the late 1980s.": The usual style guides recommend against "while" when it could easily mean either "whereas" or "at the same time", and recommend against any word when you have to ...
Boeing has been mired in crisis all year. The year began with a mid-air panel blowout on a new 737 MAX jet that exposed safety and quality problems; in March, then CEO Dave Calhoun decided to step ...
In a statement, the FAA said, “A privately owned Boeing 757 landed safely at West Palm Beach International Airport around 1:20 a.m. local time on Sunday, May 12.”
A C-32A dwarfed by a VC-25A at Paris-Orly Airport, 2009. The C-32A is the military designation for the Boeing 757-2G4, a variant of the Boeing 757-200, a mid-size, narrow-body twin-engine jet airliner—that has been modified for government VIP transport use, including a change to a 45-passenger interior and military avionics. [1]