Threshold Aviation Airliner Adventures

With 8,725 aircraft built as of September 2015, the Boeing 737 is the most popular commercial airliner globally. It is estimated that every three to five seconds, somewhere in the world, a 737 takes off or lands.nThe 737-700 is Boeing’s mid-sized option of the 737NG, seating roughly 130 passengers. At it’s maximum takeoff-weight of 70,000 kilograms, the pilots will use up to the maximum 117 kilonewtons (26,000 lbf) of thrust per engine. Barreling down the runway, the aircraft takes to the sky at upwards of 230 km/h (125 knots), and will climb skyward toward it’s cruising altitude as high as 12,500 meters (41,000 feet). The average cruise speed is almost 0.78 times the speed of sound (830 km/h)! That’s fast enough to get from Toronto to Vancouver in four hours!