Delta Celebrates 25 Years of MD88
05-01-2012, 07:15 PM
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05-02-2012, 10:09 AM
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This is the MD88. Watch it sit still waiting for a gate in slow motion.
It's pretty badass. Look. It runs all over the place. "Whoa! Watch out!" says that 767.
Eew, it's got a JT8D! Oh! It's chasing a gate that's occupied with an RON! Oh my gosh!
Oh, the MD88 is just crazy!
The MD88 has been referred to by the Guinness Book of World Records as the most fearless airliner in the airline kingdom. It really doesn't give a ****. If it's late, it's late.
Eew! What's that smell from the forward lav? Oh, it leaks in the rain? Oh it can taxi backwards?
Now watch this: look a D0 just went D+1... MD88 don't care. It just goes when it wants. Whenever it's ready it just -- Eew, look at the back of that tail…. Watch it fly! Look at that ####.
The MD88 is really pretty badass. It has no regard for any other airplane whatsoever. Look at him, he's just grunting, and #######. Eew!
What's that? A split elevator on taxi? Aileron’s just flapping in the wind? Oh that's nasty. They're so nasty. Oh look it's chasing things and scaring them!
The MD88s have a fairly long body, but a distinctly thickset broad pneumatically heated strakes unless it’s a 90 then they’re electric, and, you know, their controls are on cables to tabs, allowing them to move about freely, and they twist around.
Now look: Here's the end of the runway. Do you think the MD88 cares? It doesn't give a ****, it goes right to the end to get some pavement. Flaps 5 takeoff? Flaps 28 landing plus 15 knots? How disgusting is that? Now the brakes will squeal. Eew, that's so nasty.
But look! The MD88 doesn't care! It's at the gate getting dinged like a thousand times. It doesn't give a ****. It's just hungry. It doesn't care about being dinged. Nothing can stop the MD88 when it's hungry. What a crazy ####!
It's sitting in slow-motion again. Still waiting for the gate.
Now, what's interesting is that other airplanes just wait around until the MD88 is done flying, and then it swoops in to pick up the scraps. It says, "You do all the work for us, MD88, and we'll just take whatever you earned, how's that? What'daya say, stupid?"
Look at this 320: "Thanks for the Song Flying and the shuttle, stupid!"
Look at this EMB-175 talking to the 320: "Thanks for the shuttle flying, stupid!"
"Hey, come back here," says the MD88.
Airbuses don't care, and you know what? The Boeings do it too. Oh, look at these little RJs. They're like "Thanks stupid! Thanks for the flying! See you later." The MD88 does all the work and all these other planes just pick up the scraps.
At nightime the MD88 goes hunting for gates, because it's IROPs on a clear day in Atlanta and it’s on time but there is no room on ramp 2... so it's late.
Oh, look, now it’s 149 passengers instead of 142! Look at that ####, no more aft galley? Long line waiting to get on? Little does the MD88 sitting at the gate know, FYI: it's been stung! It's been bitten by the early ground power pull from the rampers who didn’t ask to pull power and air -- eew, that's disgusting -- all the poisonous venom is seeping through the MD88's electrical body, and it passes out.
Now the MD88 is going to pass out for a minute, and then it's going to get right back up and it’s ready to go, and on the way in ATTILA sends a message, slow to cross RMG 5 minutes later than the 300 cost index calculated, but that message is erased before anyone knew it was sent, because it's a tyrannical bastard. 500 cost index now!
Look at this! Like nothing happened! The MD88 gets right back in there and makes A-35 but no gate!
How disgusting. There goes the last DFW! There’s screaming in that cockpit. That DFW wasn’t due out until 15 minutes prior to the original arrival time.
And of course, what does the dejected MD88 sleep-in-the-lounge pilots have to eat for the night?
Chinese food in terminal B with that guy who is out to set the speed record for yanking your change out of the drawer, you cash wielding bastard. That guy is fast.
The MD88.
It's pretty badass. Look. It runs all over the place. "Whoa! Watch out!" says that 767.
Eew, it's got a JT8D! Oh! It's chasing a gate that's occupied with an RON! Oh my gosh!
Oh, the MD88 is just crazy!
The MD88 has been referred to by the Guinness Book of World Records as the most fearless airliner in the airline kingdom. It really doesn't give a ****. If it's late, it's late.
Eew! What's that smell from the forward lav? Oh, it leaks in the rain? Oh it can taxi backwards?
Now watch this: look a D0 just went D+1... MD88 don't care. It just goes when it wants. Whenever it's ready it just -- Eew, look at the back of that tail…. Watch it fly! Look at that ####.
The MD88 is really pretty badass. It has no regard for any other airplane whatsoever. Look at him, he's just grunting, and #######. Eew!
What's that? A split elevator on taxi? Aileron’s just flapping in the wind? Oh that's nasty. They're so nasty. Oh look it's chasing things and scaring them!
The MD88s have a fairly long body, but a distinctly thickset broad pneumatically heated strakes unless it’s a 90 then they’re electric, and, you know, their controls are on cables to tabs, allowing them to move about freely, and they twist around.
Now look: Here's the end of the runway. Do you think the MD88 cares? It doesn't give a ****, it goes right to the end to get some pavement. Flaps 5 takeoff? Flaps 28 landing plus 15 knots? How disgusting is that? Now the brakes will squeal. Eew, that's so nasty.
But look! The MD88 doesn't care! It's at the gate getting dinged like a thousand times. It doesn't give a ****. It's just hungry. It doesn't care about being dinged. Nothing can stop the MD88 when it's hungry. What a crazy ####!
It's sitting in slow-motion again. Still waiting for the gate.
Now, what's interesting is that other airplanes just wait around until the MD88 is done flying, and then it swoops in to pick up the scraps. It says, "You do all the work for us, MD88, and we'll just take whatever you earned, how's that? What'daya say, stupid?"
Look at this 320: "Thanks for the Song Flying and the shuttle, stupid!"
Look at this EMB-175 talking to the 320: "Thanks for the shuttle flying, stupid!"
"Hey, come back here," says the MD88.
Airbuses don't care, and you know what? The Boeings do it too. Oh, look at these little RJs. They're like "Thanks stupid! Thanks for the flying! See you later." The MD88 does all the work and all these other planes just pick up the scraps.
At nightime the MD88 goes hunting for gates, because it's IROPs on a clear day in Atlanta and it’s on time but there is no room on ramp 2... so it's late.
Oh, look, now it’s 149 passengers instead of 142! Look at that ####, no more aft galley? Long line waiting to get on? Little does the MD88 sitting at the gate know, FYI: it's been stung! It's been bitten by the early ground power pull from the rampers who didn’t ask to pull power and air -- eew, that's disgusting -- all the poisonous venom is seeping through the MD88's electrical body, and it passes out.
Now the MD88 is going to pass out for a minute, and then it's going to get right back up and it’s ready to go, and on the way in ATTILA sends a message, slow to cross RMG 5 minutes later than the 300 cost index calculated, but that message is erased before anyone knew it was sent, because it's a tyrannical bastard. 500 cost index now!
Look at this! Like nothing happened! The MD88 gets right back in there and makes A-35 but no gate!
How disgusting. There goes the last DFW! There’s screaming in that cockpit. That DFW wasn’t due out until 15 minutes prior to the original arrival time.
And of course, what does the dejected MD88 sleep-in-the-lounge pilots have to eat for the night?
Chinese food in terminal B with that guy who is out to set the speed record for yanking your change out of the drawer, you cash wielding bastard. That guy is fast.
The MD88.
05-02-2012, 11:19 AM
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05-03-2012, 07:36 AM
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April 20th 2012
A new freighter type is about to take its first flight: At the Cargo Facts Asia event, Robert Convey, VP Sales and Marketing at AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERS Inc (AEI), reported that flight testing of the prototype AEI MD-80 converted freighter will begin in early May. He also disclosed that Alaska-based Everts Air Cargo will acquire the prototype unit (49470, ex-American Airlines) following completion of certification [FAT 000232]. In addition to Everts, AEI has firm orders for fifteen MD-80SFs from four undisclosed customers. Everts currently operates a thirteen unit freighter fleet, made up of two C-46s, eight DC-6s, one DC-9, and two EMB 120s.
Cargofacts.net
A new freighter type is about to take its first flight: At the Cargo Facts Asia event, Robert Convey, VP Sales and Marketing at AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERS Inc (AEI), reported that flight testing of the prototype AEI MD-80 converted freighter will begin in early May. He also disclosed that Alaska-based Everts Air Cargo will acquire the prototype unit (49470, ex-American Airlines) following completion of certification [FAT 000232]. In addition to Everts, AEI has firm orders for fifteen MD-80SFs from four undisclosed customers. Everts currently operates a thirteen unit freighter fleet, made up of two C-46s, eight DC-6s, one DC-9, and two EMB 120s.
Cargofacts.net
05-03-2012, 07:55 AM
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April 20th 2012
A new freighter type is about to take its first flight: At the Cargo Facts Asia event, Robert Convey, VP Sales and Marketing at AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERS Inc (AEI), reported that flight testing of the prototype AEI MD-80 converted freighter will begin in early May. He also disclosed that Alaska-based Everts Air Cargo will acquire the prototype unit (49470, ex-American Airlines) following completion of certification [FAT 000232]. In addition to Everts, AEI has firm orders for fifteen MD-80SFs from four undisclosed customers. Everts currently operates a thirteen unit freighter fleet, made up of two C-46s, eight DC-6s, one DC-9, and two EMB 120s.
Cargofacts.net
A new freighter type is about to take its first flight: At the Cargo Facts Asia event, Robert Convey, VP Sales and Marketing at AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERS Inc (AEI), reported that flight testing of the prototype AEI MD-80 converted freighter will begin in early May. He also disclosed that Alaska-based Everts Air Cargo will acquire the prototype unit (49470, ex-American Airlines) following completion of certification [FAT 000232]. In addition to Everts, AEI has firm orders for fifteen MD-80SFs from four undisclosed customers. Everts currently operates a thirteen unit freighter fleet, made up of two C-46s, eight DC-6s, one DC-9, and two EMB 120s.
Cargofacts.net
There is no money in cargo.
Although there are a lot of DC-9 freighters. I'm just surprised they never converted to big cargo doors and just used the L1?
I saw also CRJ-200s converted to cargo. Seems to me Delta has a fleet of nearly 500 cargo airplanes waiting to go. Of course with American's DFW hub, if they turned their S80s into cargo liners they could have a pretty good overnight freight operation.
05-04-2012, 10:57 AM
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Fools.
There is no money in cargo.
Although there are a lot of DC-9 freighters. I'm just surprised they never converted to big cargo doors and just used the L1?
I saw also CRJ-200s converted to cargo. Seems to me Delta has a fleet of nearly 500 cargo airplanes waiting to go. Of course with American's DFW hub, if they turned their S80s into cargo liners they could have a pretty good overnight freight operation.
There is no money in cargo.
Although there are a lot of DC-9 freighters. I'm just surprised they never converted to big cargo doors and just used the L1?
I saw also CRJ-200s converted to cargo. Seems to me Delta has a fleet of nearly 500 cargo airplanes waiting to go. Of course with American's DFW hub, if they turned their S80s into cargo liners they could have a pretty good overnight freight operation.
05-05-2012, 04:16 AM
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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.
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.
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