Front Page Picture NYTimes 11/3/07

[heeshung]

I don't subscribe to the New York Times, but I was waiting for someone when I picked up a copy. The front page picture caught my eye. I look at soldiers coming home in a deeper perspective now, seeing right in front of me the relief that they experience. I think it's a fantastic picture, the way it expresses all their emotions and what it's really like to come back home.





Photo: Chang W. Lee/New York Times

Moreover, it's a North American 767!

The article: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/03/nyreg ... eturn.html

[cancidas]

there's no place like home!

[flyboy 28]

Moreover, it's a North American 767!

I'm going to be the complete aviation nut and say that looks like a 757. :P

[heeshung]

Hmm... I think it is.

[Smartass Flyboy]

Moreover, it's a North American 767!

I'm going to be the complete aviation nut and say that looks like a 757. :P

You are correct. The doors have the butterfly latch, the 76's have elecritcally operated doors similar to the DC-10 or L1011.

[Nonstop2AUH]

757 for sure, probably came from Leipzig, Budapest, Wroclaw or whatever place in the east of Europe they are routing the troop flights lately, seems like alot of them are stopping in BGR for customs before continuing on as well.

[stuart schechter]

The 75 also is higher off the ground in my perspective. The nose makes it appear that it is much higher off the ground than it actually is.

[Nonstop2AUH]

I agree with Stuart, I think the photographer must have squatted or something to get a close-up of the soldiers kissing the ground, and somehow this perspective distorted the aircraft in the background in fact it looks unnaturally long as well as high off the ground. Would have said it was a 753 but I know North American doesn't have them (although ATA does and they are sometimes used for troop flights).

[heeshung]

They don't have 753's but they do have 752's.

[PhilDernerJr]

That aircraft is 757-200 N750NA, the very aircraft that carried George W. Bush during his first campaign before he became President in 2000.