ac greatest % of life in the air

In article ,
(Mike Marron) wrote:

Ron Parsons wrote:

Back in the '60s, SAC was very proud of one of the Looking Glass
KC-135's that was the high time aircraft in the USAF at something
like
2700 hrs. That was about 75% of the time a 707 would get in one year.

Move forward to the 90's and the AA 767's going from DFW to Europe
and
back daily were averaging about 20 hours aloft out of each 24.

On a slightly different tack, I recall a 727 with about 27000 hrs
total
and one of the three engines was original and had never been off the
airframe.

At least it could still remain aloft on its other two engines if that
one old JT-8D engine happened to quit. Some of the Cessna 210's that
I've hauled bags of checks in had more than 14,000 hrs. logged on the
airframe
and engine failures at the most inopportune time were almost to be
expected.
I seriously considered purchasing NVG's so I could see where I was
going
when the engine quit at night and still have various dirt roads and
cow pastures programmed into my GPS that were to be used in the event
of
an engine failure.

Actually the other two were like 26,000 and 22,000 but had been moved
from one a/c to another at some point.

--
Ron

I recall reading in Av Week maybe 10 years ago that some 707s had over
90,000 hours - article stated that the airframe was designed for
75,000, and FAA was taking a good look at the high-time birds.
Walt BJ

" wrote:

Yeff wrote:

On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 17:56:26 GMT, Gord wrote:

Yes..always liked Lajes...great NCO's Club...honkin big rare
steak, bottle 'a Mateuse(sp)...then hit the bar...get
stinko...

Stinko - now there's a term I always thought was unique to Japan. Hadn't
thought of it in years.

-Jeff B.
yeff at erols dot com

No, common in Canada, not that I did it often. Matter of fact I
wasted one talent that I have in that regard. I *never* suffer
from hangovers, never. Doesn't matter what I do, I feel fine in
the morning...disgusting isn't it?...

Some friends hate me for it.
--

-Gord.

Stompin' Tom Connors had a famous song about thinking no more of Inco and
getting stinko on a Sudbury Saturday night.

Cheers,


--
Indrek Aavisto
Sudbury, Ontario

"Criticism is easy; achievement is difficult" W. S. Churchill

Indrek Aavisto wrote:



" wrote:

Yeff wrote:

On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 17:56:26 GMT, Gord wrote:

Yes..always liked Lajes...great NCO's Club...honkin big rare
steak, bottle 'a Mateuse(sp)...then hit the bar...get
stinko...

Stinko - now there's a term I always thought was unique to Japan. Hadn't
thought of it in years.

-Jeff B.
yeff at erols dot com

No, common in Canada, not that I did it often. Matter of fact I
wasted one talent that I have in that regard. I *never* suffer
from hangovers, never. Doesn't matter what I do, I feel fine in
the morning...disgusting isn't it?...

Some friends hate me for it.
--

-Gord.

Stompin' Tom Connors had a famous song about thinking no more of Inco and
getting stinko on a Sudbury Saturday night.

Cheers,

See?...our most prestigious and well respected people know the
'Language of our Forefathers'.


--

-Gord.

"patrick mitchel" wrote in message
...
What ac has spent the greatest % of it's life in the air- excluding the ac
that crashed on it's first flight. Thanks Pat

Probably the Rutan Voyager. I don't believe it flew much before or after the
around the world non-stop flight. That would mean it spent most of it's
operational in the air.


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"patrick mitchel" wrote in message
...
What ac has spent the greatest % of it's life in the air- excluding the ac
that crashed on it's first flight. Thanks Pat

Oh, if you meant "military" then whatever had the shortest single flight
that survived. That would make it very close to 100%.

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