I've been pleased to get back into the avhistory side of 400 scale collecting recently and today's post looks at a type that came secondhand and flew with Delta for only 5 years but cemented their choice to belatedly acquire the Boeing 727-200:
Delta's Short-lived Short 727-95s
By 1972, the year that Delta acquired Northeast Airlines, it had risen to the mid-rank of the US Trunk majors, but whereas its fellows together operated 412 Boeing 727-100s and 256 Boeing 727-200s (a staggering 35% of the entire fleet of the 12 Trunks and
www.yesterdaysairlines.com
