[LDO4CNO]

The 37 is a great plane, but with 4000 hrs in P-3's, mostly in the vast western pacific, I say give me 4 engines baby! Get 1500 miles out in westpac in a 737 and lose an engine and you're gonna have a looooong flight home!

[ghostrider]

Yup! I still got very interested when we lost 1 of 4 way out there.

[Paleo Conservative]

Why not buy updated versions of the P-3? I can't see any advantage in using jets to patrol for submarines.

[Long Cut]

2,500 P-3 hours here...all of them at the JEZ station. Still flyin' on 'em.

We need new birds, soonest. Put plainly, if we don't get them soon, a crew or two is gonna die.

Few if any flights take off nowadays and come back with NOTHING broken or malfunctioning.