Boeing 737 500 is a heavenly long-liver

Aircraft Boeing-737 of all modifications produced more than any other jet passenger airliners in the world - over five thousand copies. They began to build them back in 1967.

Five thousand for aviation - a very large number, in fact this is the whole air fleet. Every five seconds, one of the Boeing 737 aircraft lands, and its place in the airspace is occupied by the same aircraft. At any moment of the day or night, the sky is plowed by more than a thousand two hundred such liners.

The design of the glider was on the whole so successful that for decades it underwent only minor changes.

So, the fuselage modification Boeing 737 400 was extended by three meters, which was caused by the requirement of charter companies, this change entailed and the processing of air conditioning.

At that time, the transverse size of the 737-series aircraft was unprecedentedly large, it allowed passengers to sit in three rows in two rows, this was a revolutionary achievement, applied in the modification of the Boeing 737 500.

The layout of the cabin is as follows: in the economy class - six in a row, in the suite - four with a larger seat width. The layout of the airframe became classical for medium- and later long-range transcontinental passenger aircraft. Two engines consume less fuel, and kerosene savings became, by 1967, one of the main goals of aircraft builders around the world. This scheme was later used in the design of Airbus, and in the construction of Russian airliners, and became the general line for the development of passenger aviation around the world. To some extent, almost all modern civilian aircraft are similar to the Boeing 737 500. The interior layout has also become a role model for decades, at least when creating interiors of medium-haul airliners.

Motor-gondolas have a slightly flattened bottom form in order to compensate for the low landing of the fuselage.

Sales of aircraft almost immediately went very actively. Alaska Airlines has purchased and uses four dozen Boeing 737 500 airliners, which demonstrates the wide climatic possibilities of operating this car.

In size, the Boeing 737 500 is not very large, its length is about 30 meters, it is 2 meters shorter than the previous modification of 737 300, while the range of non-stop flight is more (it reaches 3,400 km), fuel consumption is less, and the passengers take it Board up to 130 people (with single-seat layout). This modification was made for nine years. From 1990 to 1999, fewer than four hundred cars were manufactured.

Great attention to the developers of the Boeing 737 500 liner paid to the ergonomics of not only the passenger compartment, but also the pilot's cabin. The display, which took the place of "alarm clocks", as pilots call analog pointers, became color. If necessary, a GPS navigation system is installed on the control panel.

As for passenger convenience, although the average duration of flights on medium-sized roads does not usually exceed two to three hours, the conditions in the cabin of the Boeing 737 500 are not worse than for long-distance flights. Taking advantage of the possibilities of modern entertainment complexes built into the seat backs, some airlines, for example "Turkish Airlines", broadcast the whole process of landing the airliner as it is seen from the pilot's cabin. It is very interesting.