Attn: Aviation Division

[Fred W. Schneider III]

Am I to assume that an air frame cycle is one take-off and landing?  

"Edward H. Lybarger" wrote:
> 
> Noted in passing:  U S Airways (AKA various unkind monikers) recently
> retired its very first DC-9-30, which had arrived on the property June 2,
> 1967 to replace a short-term leased Series 10 aircraft.  N970VJ, the 118th
> DC-9, was retired January 6 after a flight from Binghamton, with 99,824
> cycles on the airframe.
> 
> Incredibly, that first leased airplane (line number 42) continues in service
> with Northwest Airlines as N948L.  They seem to think that the airframes are
> forever.
> 
> Prognostication:  We will very much miss the much-maligned Used Air if it is
> allowed to be absorbed by Untied Airlines.
> 
> Error Correction:  Some time back, in a discussion of the Mohawk Airlines ad
> car (1664), I had said that Mohawk began service to Pittsburgh in mid-summer
> 1961.  The correct date was May 15, 1961.
> 
> Ed