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[ardibee]

I began flying the Boeing 377 Stratocruiser

 

I ended up switching all my 377 flights into DC7 flights and selling off all my 377's.

 

Reasons

 

The two aircraft types each carry the same number of passengers 

DC7 burns half the fuel as the 377

DC7 earns 25% more profit than the 377

 

Want to waste money? Fly the Boeing 377 Stratocruiser

[hayhaa]

yeah and the dc-7 is faster. boeing isn't good till later

[Hake.]

I proudly fly the Syratocruiser in R0. Profitability iisn't great but I like to be realistic.

[ardibee]

It was an amazing bird back in its day

 

The original double Decker

[ardibee]

http://youtu.be/v92U2F9gbUo

[hayhaa]

i would fly it for pride, but R0 just started an i am focusing on growing

[Amtran]

I'm going to be the odd one out and say neither: the Lockheed Starliner is better than the DC-7 (and it's earlier, too). Better range than both the DC-7 and the B377, and pretty decent fuel flow.

[Airboss777]

The DC-7 has better range & economics over the Stratocruiser. But in an era when there weren't many planes to chose from, the airlines of the day (& the players of AE today) needed both to grow their airlines. Beggars can't be choosers. Respect the fact that these planes, with around 100 seats, including the Starliner as well, were the biggest planes of the day. Today, a Q400 is almost in the same category. Respect the times for what they were. I use all three of these "heavies" & will continue to do so until I can replace them with 707's & 727's. And then I'll replace them with 747's & 737's. And then I'll replace them with A380's & A320's. And so it goes on.

[Emiel Airlines Group]

I fly the Dc-7's just because it generates better profit i bought one stratocruiser and compared it with one of my dc-7's and tried the stratocruiser on several routes i was flying on with DC-7's and in all the routes the operational profit of the DC-7 was higher. So I would suggest the DC-7.

[tsbond]

DC7 is slow off the line there is no way just to buy it. Yes it makes lots of money but is slow to be procured.