Newsgroups: sci.aeronautics.airliners Path: news From: kls@ohare.Chicago.COM (Karl Swartz) Subject: Re: Aha! The three-man 767 rears its ugly head... X-Submission-Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 06:51:50 GMT References: Message-ID: Approved: kls@ohare.Chicago.COM Organization: Chicago Software Works X-Submission-Message-ID: <1992Dec30.065150.13652@ohare.Chicago.COM> Sender: kls@ohare.Chicago.COM Date: 29 Dec 92 22:53:52 PST In article rdd@cactus.org (Robert Dorsett) writes: >I have no recollection of a picture of one of these critters, though. Can >someone clear up this matter? Yesterday I flew back from Chicago on a 757, and since United takes advantage of the common rating for flight crews on 757s and 767s I figured the guys up front might be able to answer this question. They agreed that none of the United 767s have a three-person flight deck, including the second 767 built (N601UA; the first is still with Boeing) which one of the guys had been on recently. As far as either could recall these aircraft were delivered without the third position though they pointed out that the luxuriously roomy cockpit was because the original design did have the third position, and one mentioned that the first simulators had the FE panel. Note that the first 767 actually delivered (to United) was the ninth built. The second one (again, Boeing kept the first) was delivered to United six months later, time which could well have been spent removing the FE panel as well as restoring the aircraft after the flight tests. -- Karl Swartz |INet kls@ditka.chicago.com 1-415/854-3409 |UUCP uunet!decwrl!ditka!kls |Snail 2144 Sand Hill Rd., Menlo Park CA 94025, USA Send sci.aeronautics.airliners submissions to airliners@chicago.com