Boeing 757 Asia Pacific

Boeing 757-200 Asia Pacific Airlines airplane model. After a slow sales start, the medium range single aisle 757 has become yet another sales success story for Boeing. Boeing considered a number of proposals for a successor to the 727 tri-jet during the 1970s, with many of these designs featuring the nose and T-tail of the earlier jet. It was not until later in that decade however that Boeing settled on a more conventional design featuring the same cross section as the 727 (not to mention the 737, 707 and 720) but with the fuselage considerably longer in length, an all new wing, nose and flightdeck and fuel efficient high bypass turbofan engines. Boeing launched development of the 757 in March 1979 following orders from British Airways and Eastern. Developed in tandem with the larger widebody 767 the two types share a number of systems and technologies, including a common early generation EFIS flightdeck. First flight was on February 19 1982 and the 757 entered service in January the following year. Scale 1/100. Wingspan 15 inches, Length 19 inches.