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From: john@gcc-milo.ARPA (John Allred)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Re: Commercial aircraft power-to-weight
Message-ID: <420@gcc-milo.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 3-Jan-86 10:13:12 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan  3 10:13:12 1986
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Reply-To: john@gcc-milo.UUCP (John Allred)
Organization: General Computer Company, Cambridge Ma
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In article <1724@cuae2.UUCP> djmolny@cuae2.UUCP (-DJ Molny) writes:
>
>While I was hanging around Salt Lake City this morning, I spotted a Western
>Airlines 737 with turbofan engines mounted under the wings on pylons.  They
>looked similar to the new turbofans on 757's and 767's, only smaller.
>I didn't see a manufacturer's label, but they looked a lot like GE's.
>
>Does anyone know if this is a factory-new 737 (seems unlikely), or a retrofit?
>I know the old P&W's are noisy gas hogs, while the 737 airframe is a real
>workhorse, making it a good candidate for a retrofit.

What you saw was a 737-300, a relatively new aircraft.  They come with turbo-
fans.
-- 
John Allred
General Computer Company 
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