Originally Posted by
forgot to bid
At least with the new scheme the chances of the mix and match white airframes and black noses from the early 2000s decreases significantly. I used to think maybe maintenance had a grudge and was doing that on purpose.
LOL. Yeah, I remember one combination (I forget which was which) where the airplane had a mix and match with a red nose and it looked like a clown nose.
At least now we have all the airplanes painted in the same paint scheme. Now if we could just get them to keep the DC-9 tails as clean as they do with the MD-88 tails. This is an ongoing problem with the DC-9/MD-80 series aircraft. If I'm remembering correctly, a few years ago the 88 tails were getting really dirty and Delta implemented some kind of special cleaning schedule to specifically address this. I wonder if they're using the same schedule on the -9's. I've just always thought it looks bad to have an airplane with black soot all over the tail.