Reply #62: I liked Lockheed best.

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The L-1011, from a pilot's standpoint, was my favorite. Years ahead of it's time. By losing what was basically a political battle (complicated) Lockheed was forced out of the airliner business.
Except for an early stint on Convair 880s (and my time in the 1011) all my experience was on Boeings. 727, 707, and 747. Never flew Macdonald-Douglass, or Airbus. Don't like much of what I've heard and seen of the Airbus fly-by-wire and autoflight system. Maybe they have the bugs worked out by now.

More important than the airframe (to me) was the engines. Flew Pratt & Whitneys and Rolls Royce until my last 10 years. Then GE.
GE was the absolute best, based purely on personal experience, hands down. They could apparently eat all manner of crap and keep right on chuggin'.