757 Facts
- Forty-seven airlines and other operators from 21 countries have ordered 830 Boeing 757s through June 30, 1996.
- The 757 had carried over 703 million passengers,
more than the population of the United States and Canada.
- In 13 years of operation, the 757 fleet had
flown the equivalent of nearly 12,800 roundtrips between the Earth
and the Moon.
- The 757 fleet had produced over 12.8 million
hours of revenue service for its operators -- equivalent to about
1,461 years of continuous service.
- The 757 Freighter can hold over 6 million golf balls.
- At 255,000 pounds (115,660 kg), the 757 weighs as much as a
diesel train locomotive, though it is considerably faster.
- 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 United States.
- 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 km).
- Airlines fly the versatile 757 on a wide variety of routes.
The twinjet is used to serve city pairs as far as 3,594 nautical
miles (6,656 km) apart and as close as 59 nautical miles (109 km).
- The common 757/767 cockpit type-rating permits flight crews
trained on the 757 to also fly the 767.
- Of the company's commercial jet unfilled announced orders, 10 percent are for 757 twinjets.
Martijn van Boxtel
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