OK..... I have a question about TWA planes that has bothered me for a long long time. We had an ex TWA-100 in our fleet. Why in Gods name did TWA order their aircraft with all the overhead and engineer panel switchs the revers of normal? Every time I got into that airplane it took me about 5 days to get used to it. When cleared for TO I would always try to throw the landing light switches foward and they wouldn't move and then I realized I was in the TWA plane. Same above 10,000 I would go to turn them off and then realize I have to move them the other way. I hated TWA for a long time!  :)

Yeah the 727 was not a stellar climber. Even worse we had a -200's with -7 engines. We called it the 150. It was quite horrible.