Talk:McDonnell Douglas MD-80/MD-90

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Contents 1 Series 2 Further Split? 3 MD-85 4 Northwest As a Customer? 5 Representative photography?

[edit] Series

• I believe the MD-90 and MD-95 were the only ones in the MD-90 series, so 'series' should be removed from the 'MD-90 series' and 'MD-95 series' section headers. Any arguement against this? Thanks.. -Fnlayson 23:11, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Further Split?

The rationale at Talk:McDonnell_Douglas_DC-9#Split was that because the MD-80 and MD-90 were different generation aircraft to the DC-9, they should be split from that article. Given the MD-90 could likewise be argued to be a different generation to the MD-80, albeit one which didn't meet the same success, I think we should split this article, and have one for the MD-80, and one for the MD-90 (and move all but the basic description of the MD-95 to the Boeing 717 article).--Nick Moss 00:31, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

• Don't think there's enough on the MD-90 to warrant it's own article. The MD-95 is part of the 90 series so it should be briefly covered. -Fnlayson 00:38, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
• I thought the same originally, but there is not enough information on the MD-90. Andros 1337 17:48, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
• I doubt there is enough to cover a second article.. I really think the MD-90 is just a sub type of the 80 series, and not differentiated enough to warrant its own article. --Cliffb 17:20, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
• These aircraft are in the same series. If you look at the Boeing 737 and Airbus 320, you will find all of their variants under the same heading which is how this aircraft should be represented as well. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.176.3.38 (talk • contribs) .
• Well there is a problem calling all of the aircraft in the same series, yes they share design elements, but the B707,B737, and B757 all share the same basic fuselage.. shouldn't they be in the same article? I think we need to generally follow the info that comes from the manufacturer when we have the content for it. I think we should keep the MD-90 info on this page because of the sparcity of information we have. Once we've got enough content to split the MD-90 into its own article I'm all for that, but right now, I think we need to stay with one article for the MD-80 and 90 --Cliffb 21:36, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Same basic fuselage for B707, B737 & B757? Maybe designed using similar methods but that's about it.. - Fnlayson 19:15, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
    • Actually, they share almost identical barrel sections. The 707, 727, 737 (but not 757) share a common fuselage cross section and were initially stretches/shrinks of each other. Notice that the cockpits and nose structures are identical as well. ericg ✈ 06:14, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
      • Same basic fuselage sections for those, right. I knew the 757 was a newer design. -06:46, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] MD-85

Is there such a thing as a Douglas MD-85? I never heard of it before but there it is on my flight itinerary. Btyner 00:24, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

• Looks like they skipped that year (MD-83 to -87). I tried an internet search and can't find anything on it, except one that menat MD-95. Maybe the MD-85 was a typo by the airline or somebody (??). -Fnlayson 05:00, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Northwest As a Customer?

I thought that Northwest Airlines obtained all of its MD-80s from Republic Airlines. I believe now Northwest has retired its MD-80s and now operates DC-9s.

• Get rid of generally newer planes and keep older ones? Sounds odd. -Fnlayson 01:41, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
  • That's exactly what they did. As far as I know, the -80s were too large for the routes nwa was flying them on, and they wanted to unify maintenance. The -9s fit the bill better, and apparently the mx costs were about the same. ericg ✈ 03:07, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
    • Thanks. A bit unusual but makes plenty of sense. -Fnlayson 03:59, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Representative photography?

Shouldn't this page picture an MD-80 series aircraft in the AA livery? Since American operates a good chunk of the entire DC-9 series aircraft produced, it seems like a truly representative article ought to have a picture of this model aircraft in AA colors.