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United is quietly starting to phase out one of the most iconic long haul aircraft in modern aviation. They are cutting Boeing 757 long haul flights by 16% this summer, with several international routes seeing major reductions and some disappearing entirely.

For decades The Boeing 757 built a cult following thanks to unusual ability to fly surprisingly long routes across the Atlantic despite being a narrow body jet. Now the aircraft is slowly losing ground as airlines shift toward newer, more fuel-efficient planes like the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and Airbus A321XLR.

This was the world’s last operational Boeing 727-100 which made its final flight late last year, ending nearly 58 years of service for the rare short-body version of Boeing’s classic trijet. The aircraft, registered VP-BAP, was a Boeing 727-21 first delivered to Pan Am in 1967 before later being converted into a VIP-configured private jet. At the controls of VP-BAP was Captain David Morrison. A pilot who had spent more than four decades flying the iconic tri-jet.

Its final journey took it from Van Nuys, California, to Kingman, Arizona, where the aircraft is expected to be preserved rather than immediately scrapped. The twist is that while most 727-100s vanished from airline service decades ago, this one remained airworthy long enough to outlive nearly every other example of its kind.

Rising maintenance demands, parts scarcity, and stricter regulatory requirements reportedly helped bring its flying career to an end. The retirement turns a once common jetliner into a museum era survivor, marking the quiet farewell of a design that helped define short and medium haul air travel for generations.

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The Koenig Sphere, the only mostly intact art piece to survive the collapse of the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001, has become a symbol of resilience and a memorial to the fallen. Soon after the attacks The Sphere was dismantled and stored near a hangar at JFK airport then was on display in Battery Park from 2002-2017. It now sits at Liberty Park overlooking the 9/11 memorial. It's still considered a very valuable art piece despite its damage and its one of the largest bronze sculptures in the world.