Classic British Flight Sim

Today I attended our 'Boeing 737 Familiarization Training Class'...an all day class! Huge fun!! Part of the class included a tour of our MX facility here in Dallas. As luck would have it a couple of our lovely 700's had arrived recently for their C Check. I took a few pics and thought I'd share them. If only Ben could have been here in Dallas today.

Brian

Ben thinks they're abhorred

Thanks Brian,
Looks like a C check is quite thorough.
Is that section for free bags the first to be jettisoned, or is there just a chute out the other side into a rubbish skip?

At Southwest your first two checked bags fly for free...no fees. Of course these bags also cannot be the size of a VW and weigh 750 lbs.

Brian

... oh btw you did get me my SW t-shirt - righht?

Traveler's mini toothbrush with SW logo?

I'll see if I can snag a t-shirt. Once a year SWA opens the mighty company vaults allowing us loyal employees access to all sorts of SWA goodies. When that happy day arrives I'll see what I can lay my hands on. Last year I walked away with a Boeing 737 model w/stand, a t-shirt, a deck of SWA playing cards, and a rubber chicken. Go ahead...ask me about the rubber chicken.

Brian

FlyTexas wrote: Go ahead...ask me about the rubber chicken. Brian

Graham

The rubber chicken is what i'd rather fly on over the 737

Actually a rubber chicken is what you'll find hanging beneath each of SWA's simulators. Legend has it that back in the day our simulators spent a fair amount of down time due to technical issues. At some point one of our pilot's (on a visit to New Orleans, Louisiana) was told that a dead chicken will ward off evil spirits. This pilot then took it upon himself to hang a rubber chicken beneath each of the simulators to increase the reliability of the simulators. And the rest, as they say, is history. At the bottom of this page is an actual pic of one of our rubber chickens at work. http://haunani-stuffilove.blogspot.com/ ... lines.html

Brian