by FlexibleFlier » Thu Sep 25, 2014 8:10 am
I was hired in late 1966 and missed flying some great airplanes because they put me directly on the 727. I had really wanted to fly the Connie and the Electra, although by then they were both on Shuttle standby which was very, very boring with very little flying. Can't really complain, though, since I had some fun years flying the 727, DC-8 and DC-9. Of the three, the 727 was my favorite by far: better design, stronger, easier to fly, simpler systems (for me, at least), more flexible in what it could do, etc., etc. First loves tend to linger in the mind even after they are long gone...
Later I switched to helicopters which are so much more challenging in many ways. I never looked back and had another 24 great years of flying.