Boeing 737 500 - heavenly long-liver

2024 Author: Howard Calhoun | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 10:16

Boeing-737 aircraft of all modifications produced more than any other jet passenger airliners in the world - over five thousand copies. They started building them back in 1967.

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

The design of the airframe turned out to be generally so successful that over the decades it has undergone only minor changes.

Thus, the fuselage of the modification of the Boeing 737 400 was extended by three meters, which was caused by the requirement of charter companies, this change also led to the reworking of the air conditioning system.

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

Salon schemeis as follows: in the economy class - six in a row, in the suite - four each with a larger seat width. The layout of the airframe has become classic for medium- and later long-haul transcontinental passenger aircraft. Two engines consume less fuel, and by 1967 saving on kerosene had become one of the main goals of aircraft manufacturers around the world. Such a scheme was subsequently applied both in the design of Airbuses and in the construction of Russian airliners, and became the general line for the development of passenger aviation throughout the world. To some extent, almost all modern civil aircraft are similar to the Boeing 737 500. The cabin layout has also become a role model for decades, at least when creating the interiors of medium-haul airliners.

The engine nacelles are slightly flattened at the bottom to compensate for the low fuselage.

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

The Boeing 737 500 is not very large in size, its length is about 30 meters, it is 2 meters shorter than the previous modification 737 300, while its non-stop flight range is longer (it reaches 3,400 km), fuel consumption is less, and it takes passengers on board up to 130 people (with a single-cabin layout). This modification was carried out for nine years. From 1990 to 1999, a little less than four hundredmachines.

The developers of the Boeing 737 500 paid much attention 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 the pilots call analogue pointer devices, has become colored. If necessary, a GPS navigation system is installed on the control panel.

As for the convenience for passengers, despite the fact that the duration of flights on medium routes usually does not exceed two or three hours, the conditions in the cabin of the Boeing 737 500 are no worse than for long-haul flights. Using the capabilities of modern entertainment complexes built into the seatbacks, some airlines, such as Turkish Airlines, broadcast the entire process of landing an airliner as it is visible from the pilot's cabin. This is very interesting.