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Delta to retire last commercial service Douglas DC-9 aircraft
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| Dec. 24, 2013
Posted on 12/24/2013 12:12:05 PM PST by Olog-hai
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posted on
12/24/2013 12:12:05 PM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
Recall Northwest Airlines bought a gaggle of Swiss Air DC-9s. The repaint was a snap...
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posted on
12/24/2013 12:20:38 PM PST
by
Eric in the Ozarks
("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
To: Olog-hai
Probably a leftover from the Northwest Airlines merger. Braniff used to have a bunch of DC-9’s in their fleet back in the day.
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posted on
12/24/2013 12:22:48 PM PST
by
tflabo
(Truth or Tyranny)
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posted on
12/24/2013 12:30:32 PM PST
by
mcmuffin
(Freedom's On The March - Wave Goodbye!)
To: mcmuffin
I remember getting on one of these in the 90s and seeing on the serial number plate it was almost as old as I was LOL.
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posted on
12/24/2013 12:34:14 PM PST
by
nascarnation
(Wish everyone see a "Gay Kwanzaa")
To: tflabo
North Central had DC-9s when they were bought by NWA.
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posted on
12/24/2013 12:42:36 PM PST
by
Eric in the Ozarks
("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
To: Olog-hai
They’ve been called MD-80’s for a long time. It was really nice when Alaska retired the last one. I hated flying in the things.
To: Olog-hai
So what happens to them?
Are scrapped or sold to 3rd world airlines?
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posted on
12/24/2013 12:44:27 PM PST
by
rhinohunter
(Freepers aren't booing -- they're shouting "Cruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuz")
To: rhinohunter
Some will be sold to foreign or smaller carriers while others will likely be converted to cargo use.
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posted on
12/24/2013 12:46:16 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: Olog-hai
Very nice quiet ride if you sat near the front. Back near the engines was another matter.
To: cuban leaf
The older DC-9s are still called DC-9. The “MD-80” started with the DC-9-80 airframe.
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posted on
12/24/2013 12:48:17 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
North Central had merged with Southern by the time the NW merger happened and was Republic Airlines.
To: nascarnation
Good afternoon. Flown on a DC9 from MSP to ATL a number of times.
I remember getting on one of these in the 90s and seeing on the serial number plate it was almost as old as I was LOL.
I believe there are two sons of BUFF pilots flying the same aircraft their fathers did. Well, the H model anyway.
Amazing.
5.56mm
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posted on
12/24/2013 12:53:41 PM PST
by
M Kehoe
To: AnAmericanInEngland
You’re right.
I’d lost track of Republic but don’t remember “Southern.”
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posted on
12/24/2013 1:00:24 PM PST
by
Eric in the Ozarks
("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
To: Olog-hai
A new day is dawning, Boeing 797, 1000 passenger, mach .88 (654 mph):
There are several big advantages in the "Blended Wing & Fuselage" design, the most important being the Lift to Drag ratio which is expected to increase by an amazing 50%, resulting in an overall weight reduction of the aircraft by 25%, making it an estimated 33% more fuel efficient than the A380, and thus making the Airbus's $13 Billion Dollar investment look pretty shaky.
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posted on
12/24/2013 1:09:16 PM PST
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: gorush
To: TapsBrowning
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posted on
12/24/2013 1:15:39 PM PST
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: M Kehoe
Capt. David Welsh is flying a buff his grandpa flew
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posted on
12/24/2013 1:17:53 PM PST
by
NonValueAdded
(It's not the penalty, it's the lack of coverage on 1 Jan. Think about it.)
To: NonValueAdded
His dad flew it too. David “Swoop” Welsh. Searchable, several articles.
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posted on
12/24/2013 1:19:55 PM PST
by
NonValueAdded
(It's not the penalty, it's the lack of coverage on 1 Jan. Think about it.)
To: M Kehoe
I remember when the skies were filled with DC-9s back in the 1970s. Hard to believe that airplanes can last that long considering the daily abuse they take. I have a car for four or five years and it's ready for the scrap heap.
On July 31, 1973, one of these DC-9s (Delta) flew several hundred feet over my East Boston childhood home before crashing into a seawall killing all 89 aboard (though one surviver lasted several months). My father, who worked at the airport at the time, was on the scene.
Pilot error. He came into the fog too low.
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