Boeing 757 Facts:

* The 757 has carried more than 1.3 billion passengers, more than four times the population of the United States and Canada combined.
   
* In 18 years of operation, the 757 fleet has flown the equivalent of nearly 25,000 roundtrips between the Earth and the Moon.

* The 757 fleet has produced over 24 million hours of service for its operators, equivalent to about 2,750 years of continuous service.

* The 757 Freighter can hold over 6 million golf balls.

* At 255,000 pounds (115,660 kilograms), the 757 weighs as much as a diesel train locomotive.

* The surface area of a pair of 757 wings is 1,951 square feet (181 square meters), about the same as the floor space of a three-bedroom house in the U.S.

* There are about 626,000 parts in a 757. About 600,000 bolts and rivets fasten those parts together. The length of all wires in the twinjet is about 60 miles (100 kilometers).

* Airlines fly the versatile 757 on a wide variety of routes. The twinjet is used to serve city pairs as far as 4,281 statute miles (6,890 kilometers) and as close as 65 statute miles (105 kilometers).

* The common 757/767 cockpit type-rating permits flight crews trained on the 757 to also fly the 767.

* Of the company's (year-end 2000) unfilled announced orders for 1,612 commercial jets , 4.9 percent (79) are for 757 twinjets.

Source: http://www.boeing.com/commercial/757family/pf/pf_facts.html

In my opinion The Boeing Company should actualize some data above. The last update was in 2000 and the planes are still flying.

Well, I don't think much of the data will have changed (other than the passenger and hour amounts). 

The 757 is a much nicer narrowbody than anything else Boeing made with that body. In my opinion, the 737NG is an inferior design. Just the fact that the 757 sits so high, thus not having squished nacelles, makes its design superior. I think that an 757NG could have been developed,with a shorter version, instead of the 737-900. American wants to replace their 757s with A321s, thats ubsurd

one thing is missing from Pinatubo post,

The 757 is the best modern commercial jet liner, it beats the 737ng any day although CS has my money for the retro 737 as i know they will produce and capture a flying icon in great detail

CoolP wrote on Jul 18^th, 2011 at 8:26pm:


Airbus probably stole them. 

I guess sports figures are easy to relate to (just like with length--measured in football fields). And a measurement in golf balls sounds a heckuva lot more impressive than basketballs.

The 757 is the best all around airliner available today - IMHO !  

Comfortable, flexible, sips fuel, multi tasking - it can make money flying short legs or across the ocean. Great short field plane both landing and takeoff. Full CAT-IIIB autoland.

We used to fly from KJFK to KSNA with full load of pax - no problem.



KSNA is a very short runway for big jets, but the 757 never broke a sweat.

Lou

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CoolP wrote on Jul 18^th, 2011 at 8:26pm:

I know I never got them!