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Article #3Re: KIWI AIRLINES [MD-11 NOTE too]
From: Evan H. Ng
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 17:14
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 17:14
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In article <1992Sep1.233217.17818@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mperlman@nyx.cs.du.edu (Marshal "Airborne" Perlman) writes: >Lets see...who died lately? (well...a few years) > >PSA: Planes had a happy face on them. >AIRCAL: Cool paint job. Owned by American... >REPUBLIC: Ugly paint job. Merged with Northwest >JET AMERICA: Cool paint job too. >WESTERN: Can't belive it...they had a nice operation. >BRANIFF: Can believe it...PLAD AIRCRAFT? Yea Right! Had "designer" planes >EASTERN: Don't know if they ever were an airline. >PEOPLES EXPRESS: Hah...pay the $99 >ON< the plane! I remember that. >NY AIR (or something like that): Big apple on the TAIL, made me hungry. I think it merged w/ Continental >FRONTIER: Big 'F' for "Forgot to put the gear up" (personal story). >STATES WEST: Who the hell uses SHORT 360s? TOO LOUD! A lot of airlines do: AER LINGUS OLYMPIC AIRLINES USAIR, etc. >GOLDENWEST: Who names their airline after a COMMUNITY COLLEGE? > >Anyone got anything else (and/or a comment)? Don't forget the ever popular Pan Am... great paint job on the A Airbuses (A300 & A310) MIDWAY AIRLINES: Gone, nice paint job on the 737-200s PIEDMONT AIRLINES: Largest fleet of F28s, but merged with USAIR (Part of message deleted) >It was an Alitalia MD-11..they called it DEYGO <G>...anyhow..the guy >took of more or less..straight up...pretty neat...he flew out to Catalina and >BACK in the same time it took me to work 1/2 of the pattern! SHEESH! A outstanding display of modern technology. How were the GE CF6 engines? See any w/ PW4000s? Adios, Me. (Evan Ng)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!gatech!rutgers!njitgw.njit.edu!irss!evan From: evan@irss.uucp (Evan H. Ng) Newsgroups: fido.aviation,rec.aviation Subject: Re: KIWI AIRLINES [MD-11 NOTE too] Message-ID: <1992Sep3.171453.18749@njitgw.njit.edu> Date: 3 Sep 92 17:14:53 GMT References: <1992Sep1.233217.17818@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> Sender: evan@irss.njit.edu Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology Lines: 60 Nntp-Posting-Host: irss-gw.njit.edu