In article , gatt wrote:

At the public terminal where I fly out of (Troutdale) there's a photo of a
United 707 that mistook Troutdale for Portland International. Imagine
landing a jet and realizing that the 11,000 feet of runway you expected is
only 5,000 feet long. They had to strip the plane of all excess weight and
bring it a special pilot to get the plane out.

Anyone know what the balanced field length for a minimum-fuel 707 would
have been? Considering how much of an airliner's weight is fuel and cargo,
it seems like it would have been fairly short.

I didn't find anything much on the web about it -- not suprising considering
how long it's been since they were first-line aircraft. I *did* find a 737 training
manual that was pretty interesting.

Mike Beede