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I'm positive the day I retire the MadDog is still chugging along in DL colors, eating up RJ (or whatever we'll call it in 30 years) for breakfast.

I can't believe Delta got them only 2 months after I was born. :eek:

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Originally Posted by EMBFlyer (Post 1179459)

The MD-80 (with another carrier who thinks their's are Super) got me into flying. I still love the thing (even though I've never flown it). It's the only thing that could make Rube Goldberg go, "Man that's complicated!"

Hahahaha you have never seen the MD90 :eek:

Can you say "pylon flaps"

Rube would be \sooo proud .

Time well spent! Bravo on the honey badger remake.

Check this site out. DC-9/maddog stuff...

AIRLINERCAFE.COM - Ultimate DC-9/MD-80/MD-90/MD-95 Guide

Some MD88 trivia for you "newbies". Why is it called an MD88, not 85 or 86? Because Delta was the carrier that partnered with M/D for the all class/EFIS cockpit and it was to be delivered.....1988.

Why did Delta choose the MD88 and not the modern 737-400/500 at the time? During the mid 1980s the UDF (unducted fan) was at the forefront being developed. If it had become a reality, it would have been easy to reengine rear mounted engines vs the underwing engines. A gamble that seems to have paid off, even without the UDFs.

Was in the first MD82 class in Long Beach. The capts were DC9 drivers and were somewhat awed at the glass (the ones who had not flown the 75/76). The 88 was my first capt's job there and loved it.

Would love to go back and do some real "flying" again. But not the 4 to 6 legs a day and 9 hour layovers. Enjoy.......

Started a collection of artwork from the executive offices of various aircraft manufacturers. My first item was from Boeing:

http://www.betterphoto.com/uploads/p...s_of_eagle.jpg

... and just picked up my Douglas print:

http://pics.blameitonthevoices.com/0...pside-down.jpg

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Originally Posted by Skyone (Post 1179568)

Was in the first MD82 class in Long Beach. The capts were DC9 drivers and were somewhat awed at the glass (the ones who had not flown the 75/76). The 88 was my first capt's job there and loved it.

Thank you for your work, doing the dangerous and thankless job of flight test, while in revenue service. Thanks to your generation of MD drivers and ours, and thousands of service difficulty reports, airworthiness directives, mod programs, work arounds and re writes of performance manuals phase one is nearly complete. The challenges of doing this work while maintaining a schedule can not be over stated.

Our jet now has fences, kinks, chord extensions, fairings, changes in angle of incidence, tail anhedral, vents, dozens of strakes, vortilons, root extensions, tabs, three different stabilizer extensions, anti float tabs, fins, four different pylon fairings, five separate tip extensions, pylon elevators and hinge modifications ... and as long as we manually add 10 knots to the FMC hold speed, it won't stall and fall into a spin by hitting execute.

True story - Talking to an FAA Certification Program Manager ... "yeah, it is a horrid design, but very few have crashed." Tip of the hat to you and those who continue your work, even past the demise of the morons, I mean, manufacturer, who built the thing.