What was this aricraft?

[Mac1337]

The other day I flew on US Air on one of their North East route. The aircraft had just two seats on each side and was really long. I don't remember the last time I was in an aircraft like that. Wasn't 707 like this?

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Embraer 190?

[Panopticon]

If you mean US Airways, it could be an Embraer E-Jet. Maybe a E-190 or E-195. Made in Brazil and equipped with twin GE jet engines.

Boeing 707 was more like a bomber with seats ()

EDIT: timg was quicker!

[Mac1337]

Now I remember that designation. Funny, the full name was never mentioned anywhere. Now seriosuly, who would buy an Embraer? Kind of reminded me of early jet aviation. BTW, 707 was the first jet plane I flew on.

ps

US Air web site makes no mention of that aircraft.

[Ken Sp.]

seatguru.com lists what aircraft the company uses

http://www.seatguru.com/airlines/US_Airw...mation.php

If not there--Look under the other partner America West

[Carnos Jax]

The 707 had nice wide seats, 2 on each side. But sometimes they had 3 on each side of the aisle I think. The 707, 727 and 737 essentially use the same passenger cabin (or upper fuselage), with the 707 having a bigger cargo hold (despite appearances, none of these models had a circular body). The 757 I think uses the same body as the 727 and 737 as well.

Embraer's line of regional jets (known as ERJ's) that have the engines mounted near the rear of the body, were derived from their twin-propellor line of regional aircraft, a.k.a. the Brasilia (or EMB-120). Embraer was pretty clever, all they did was lengthen the fuselage, keep the same tail, replace the straight wing with a swept wing and put jet engines on it.

Similarly, Bombardier/Canadair took their line of Challenger business jets and at first just lengthened their bodies, and later lengthened their body even more and paired them with bigger wings. These were known as CRJ's, and have 3 seats on one side of the aisle and two on the other.

Because of this (much lower developmental costs), both companies were able to take advantage of the regional jet boom and pretty much squeeze all other potential players (even Boeing) out of the game.

Same reason Boeing was able to do so well with their 727 and 737 lines.

[Mac1337]

What I liked about it was its plainness. No video, no airphone, no headphones. Just a seat and a tray. I was almost tempted to call the 'stewardes" for a drink, especially after they stood in the aisle and started demoing, silently I might add, how to use the oxygen mask while pointing to various parts of the cabin. A real throwback.

[Thrift Store Scott]

[quote Carnos Jax]Bombardier/Canadair took their line of Challenger business jets and at first just lengthened their bodies, and later lengthened their body even more and paired them with bigger wings. These were known as CRJ's, and have 3 seats on one side of the aisle and two on the other. CRJs have two seats on either side of the aisle.

The larger (but visually very similar) McDonnell-Douglas DC-9/MD-80/MD-90/Boeing 717 (all essentially the same aircraft) have three seats on one side of the aisle and two seats on the other side.

[Carnos Jax]

Oh yeah, you're right. I got confused. The Brasilia derivatives then only have 2 seats on one side of the aisle and 1 seat on the other (I knew the CRJ's have one more seat in each row).

BTW, now both Embraer and Bombardier are making regional jets that have a conventional layout, i.e. engines on the wings (all new clean sheet designs I think, or perhaps the Bombardier has a body drived from their earlier CRJ's).