I flew on one of these just last week, well kinda; it was a B717 (Qantas, Sydney to Hobart return). Flying the B717 on one of the few carriers in the US & Australia who still have them in their fleet is probably the nearest you'll probably get to experience a commercial passenger flight on a DC-9 in 2023.
@geminian7846
Жыл бұрын
I flew on a genuine DC9 on an internal flight in Venezuela in 1999. Looking at the 'boiler plate' on the door post as I boarded, I saw that it was already 31 years old. As they started up, the engines sounded as if they hadn't ever been serviced. But it got me there, and back.
@carolinarailproductions1001
Жыл бұрын
Delta also uses the 717, and some airlines use the MD-90 and -80, which are the Brothers to the DC9
@Steph-pn2kq
10 ай бұрын
I love working on the Qantas 717s. They have some quirks, but they're nice to load and push
@marcleslac2413
10 ай бұрын
Flew on a 717 with hawaiian, between honolulu and maui. And return.
@burntnougat5341
Жыл бұрын
Used to see many Northwest Airlines DC9 at Memphis. That red and gray color scheme was still one of the best and most iconic
@ingvarhallstrom2306
Жыл бұрын
The DC9 and the MD80 are probably the type of plane I've had the most air time with as a passenger, seeing my parents lived in different parts of the country and it was more or less the default jet for regional domestic flights in Sweden during the eighties and nineties. An incredibly lovely and beautiful plane.
@9HighFlyer9
Жыл бұрын
Same situation and timeframe for me in the western US it was initially 727's then 737's.
@JTA1961
Жыл бұрын
Up to level & then down again
@Milkmans_Son
Жыл бұрын
@@9HighFlyer9 Every other weekend!
@9HighFlyer9
Жыл бұрын
@@Milkmans_Son that would've been nice. Plane tickets were still pretty expensive in the mid 80s. Mostly just summer break and sometimes Christmas break.
@ConradNeill
Жыл бұрын
Wish you had Patreon or KZitem memberships. I feel guilty consuming your high-quality content at zero cost. I'm 100% sure I'm not alone in that respect. Also, the sound quality was so much better. Great work, as always.
@ConradNeill
8 ай бұрын
@@newdefsys That's an embarrassing mistake to make. In my defense, Saturdays are my wake-and-bake day. 🤫
@persjofors2586
Жыл бұрын
DC-9-20 was called "The Race Car" by SAS pilots as it had the short fuselage of the -10 variant and the wings and engines of the -40 variant. It was specified by SAS specifically for short take-off and landing performance on mountainous runways in Norway. It surely accelerated very quickly.
@terryboyer1342
Жыл бұрын
Per Sjöfors That acceleration carried over to the 717. Loved the feeling on takeoff.
@persjofors2586
Жыл бұрын
@@terryboyer1342 Absolutely.
@JM-dv1zq
Жыл бұрын
" It was specified by SAS specifically ..." is redundant, Per Sjofors !!! I sincerely hope you do not have a license to operate a motor vehicle !!
@terryboyer1342
Жыл бұрын
@@JM-dv1zq Geez, who pooped on your corn flakes this morning? No kids to yell "get off my grass!" today?
@persjofors2586
Жыл бұрын
@@JM-dv1zq I never argue with idiots.
@lcprivatepilot1969
Жыл бұрын
The MD80 is one of the smoothest commercial jets I’ve ever flown on while in turbulent air. Also, one of the quietest and that was in the 90’s! My favorite seat, just forward the jet engine’s intake, which also offers a good view of the wing surfaces.
@geminian7846
Жыл бұрын
Certainly a better place to sit than abreast of the engine itself, in case a rotating part disintegrates in flight!
@kurtpena5462
Жыл бұрын
I've made so many flights on MD80's and DC9's. It's a shame that COVID accelerated their retirement. I mostly rode on AA MD80's. Many of these were taken over from TWA. I distinctly remember flying on a Spirit Air DC9 that was configured single class. It reminded me of a bus or a train! I hear the pilots considered it a fairly hot plane. It has high wing loading compared to the 737, so I guess it feels more like a fighter jet when you turn and climb. These were fun planes to ride on too.
@psa722
Жыл бұрын
Coincidentally, my very last TWA flight was on the very last MD-83 made, N984TW dubbed the Spirit of Long Beach. What a great plane.
@kurtpena5462
Жыл бұрын
@@psa722 I once was a passenger on The Spirit of Tulsa. The flight crew had no idea that their plane had a name and didn't notice the logo right by the door. What a let down!
@psa722
Жыл бұрын
@@kurtpena5462 It is quite horrible when the crew don’t even know what plane they are on. An FA on one of my flights recently said that the plane was a Boeing A320!
@GSteel-rh9iu
Жыл бұрын
Another detailed piece; looking forward to Part 2. I watch your BAC 3-11 episode every couple of months; a magnificent post-empire history of early civilian jet aviation.
@davidwell686
Жыл бұрын
Great company and sad to see it gone.
@johnpitzer5500
Жыл бұрын
I worked for Northwest Airlines in Atlanta, I used to check maintenance on them, also worked the JT8 engine shop that powered both of our 727 and DC-9 .
@flllooofie
8 ай бұрын
I worked on the flightline also.
@JWUniverse
7 ай бұрын
@22:00 If that ain’t God telling you, your going to Live I don’t know what is… Bless this woman for surviving at your will Lord and I hope she became one with you afterwards! Great Doc.
As a kid, I lived near an airport that served Ozark Airlines. I really liked their DC-9's and F-27's and would take as many pictures as I could of them when I had the chance. My parents would get the rolls of film developed for me as part of my allowance payment, which was a fair trade. I would log 'N' numbers and little differences in each plane, and file the pics with an information card. Lord knows where those files are today. It's a treasure trove to an airplane historian, maybe?
@tomasjakovac7950
Жыл бұрын
You NEED to find those!
@sski
Жыл бұрын
@@tomasjakovac7950 Yeah, that was 1974-76 until the family moved to another state, my parents got divorced shortly thereafter, we moved around a lot, then I moved out on my own at 17 and lost a lot of stuff, including models my father built, to my first and only eviction which I still kick myself over to this day. I lost a huge record collection and MOST LIKELY, those pictures. They're hopefully in someone else's hands.
@wayback75
Жыл бұрын
Back in the 80s, Continental Airlines had a DC-9 -10 with a pair of JT8D-15 engines strapped to it. A CO pilot was telling me about it while it was parked at the gate and I was performing maintenance on it. He said every DC-9 pilot wanted to fly it as it flew like a rocket .
@Klp578
4 күн бұрын
What I love this aircraft is very quite in the cabin for passengers as the engines located behind on the tail.
@breathtakingblue
Жыл бұрын
Not even watched it yet as I’m out but I know this is going to be great! Thanks Ruairidh! 👍
@toomanyhobbies2011
Жыл бұрын
Awesome aircraft in which to ride. The acceleration and takeoff angle was great. It's why the MD-80 was nicknamed the "Mad Dog". My mom worked on the DC-9 interior finish crew for several years.
@johnosbourn4312
Жыл бұрын
By the way, KLM also has Boeing 747s in their fleet, as well as the various models of the DC-9, and DC-10, so their fleet wasn't entirely built around Douglas/McDonnell-Douglas types.
@B1970T
Жыл бұрын
What was not included and should have , was the first privately ordered and owned DC9, by Hugh Hefner(Playboy)N950PB. A gorgeous bird. Overall, a nice vid!
@rgarlinyc
Жыл бұрын
Very informative and enlightening - thank you!
@saltyroe3179
Жыл бұрын
I liked the Boeing 727 because of the higher performance. The DC9 should have been the basis of Douglas financial recovery. The problem was mismanagement. I was very upset when McDonnell (in which I had as my 1st stock shares). This was because I knew Douglas engineers and knew designing and economical, reliable jet was not enough.
@toddrone
Жыл бұрын
DC9 one of the loudest engine ,.. grew up flying in it and Fokker F28. Fun times
@melvyncox3361
Жыл бұрын
Great video.Well informed and narrated.
@robbrie
4 ай бұрын
I remember being on the Northwest Airlines DC9-10s on short haul flights from Detroit in the 90s. Those planes were tiny, relatively speaking.
@philb0109
Жыл бұрын
In 1977 I flew on a DC-9 from DFW to Austin, TX. It was a Texas Iinternational (?) plane. We had 2 stops, one in Amarillo, the other in Lubbock. On approach to Amarillo the pilot went into a dust storm about 1k feet from the ground. The wind was wicked and I thought he was going into a flat spin and we would pancake into the ground, but we didn't. At the gate the plane rocked back and forth like I have never experienced before. I have another story when were in a DC-9 taking off in a dust storm in Chihuahua. It was screaming passengers holding onto their rosaries all the way to Juarez it was so rough. The pilot made an almost 90 degree turn as we lifted off the runway in Chihuahua. I was on the port side looking out the window. I thought the wing was going to scrape the ground. Oh, well; it was better than driving. :) We kissed the ground in Juarez. We all lived to fly another day in a DC-9, hooray!
@mrFalconlem
Жыл бұрын
Wow that flight attendant, one lucky girl, never heard about that.
@AdurianJ
Жыл бұрын
Talked to an old air stewardess that had worked at SAS and Linjeflyg. She mentioned that the Caravelle used at the old Stockholm Airport at bromma regularly needed to use the braking parashute and in some weather conditions could not land at all and had to land at Arlanda. Linjeflyg that operated from the airport with it's shorter runways up untill the 1980's used the Fokker F28 as it's mainstay aircraft. I remember SAS making a very sudden switchover to almost all MD80's in the early-mid 80's. Annecdotally.
@hepphepps8356
Жыл бұрын
SAS didn’t stop using the 9’s until quite a bit in to the 00’s. 2003/04ish, maybe? The -20 was wild!
@AdurianJ
Жыл бұрын
@@hepphepps8356 Maybe they never flew from Stockholm then. Transwede a competitor that arrived in the late 80's when the market deregulated had Caravelles which was pretty cool.
@evan.agumbs1887
Жыл бұрын
The DC 9 will always be special to me because that was the first jet aircraft that I flew on back in 1969 always liked Douglas airplanes.
@auntbarbara5576
Жыл бұрын
Thank you Rory!
@josefblasini5253
Жыл бұрын
I remember AUSTRIAN AIRLINES having an all DC-9 fleet for decades and once the best service in Europe. I didn't see any mention of this.
@martinda7446
Жыл бұрын
Outstanding.
@deantait8326
Жыл бұрын
I flew weekly from 86-94. Primarily out of Houston (IAH) lots of rides on the DC-9 and MD-80, but to be honest, right or wrong, I was always happy to see a 737 at my Gate. Just more comfortable IMO but the last 10 years I prefer an A-321 to the newer 737. Seat are better for my Ol body. And yes early on many fights on the Ol 727, gas guzzler
@philb0109
Жыл бұрын
I liked that there was no sardine seat one one side of the cabin.
@DKS225
Жыл бұрын
Vulovic's name is also in The Guinness World Records 2000 Year's Publication. That said a Charity by the name of Samaritans Purse i think still has a DC-9 still in operation.
@kenchorney2724
Жыл бұрын
loved the DC9! First planes i flew on were DC8 and DC9.
@emmanuelpower2439
Жыл бұрын
Highly informative... wow😊
@Porschedude8
Жыл бұрын
Well done! 👍👍
@billdurham8477
Жыл бұрын
I am pretty sure it is a 9-10 that visits RWI here in North Carolina. My first commercial ride was back row of a -30, not happy looking at the fan blades that looked like 10% of the blade area was worn away. It was an old dog by late 80's. And loud on the inside. And Mohawk!!! Memories of Grammy walking down the stairs into the tail of something rear engined, 1970??? and the Convair turboprops firing up. To us she looked like a movie star with her hats....Mohawk was the only airline flying from Toronto to PVD
@sherwinsalvatori6997
Жыл бұрын
One of the most beautiful paint jobs I ever saw on a air line name bwia. Not sure if they still in existence.
@eucliduschaumeau8813
Жыл бұрын
I used to fly those in the 1960s and 1970s after the initial N.Y. to Miami or San Juan flight, then on to BWIA's DC-9s to Saint Lucia, Antigua and Barbados. Loved the air-stairs in the back. Beautiful livery on those.
@jonathanlander3631
Жыл бұрын
Great vid and imagery. I flew on many DC-9s. They were not a quiet ride.
@psa722
Жыл бұрын
I might be going hard of hearing from it, but the louder the better. Absolutely loved the back of the DC-9's and 727's.
@BobbyGeneric145
Жыл бұрын
Great as always Rory!
@torgeirbrandsnes1916
Жыл бұрын
Great vlog as always! Boeing started the 737-200 program in mid 1965. UA, WA, BY, BU and a few others wanting a lager version. Buy the book 737 written by a WN pilot. A must for nerds. SK got the -21 series tailor maid for Norway with 1600m rwys and lots of terrain all over. Two of those aircraft was ment for LF but the Swedish CAA did not approve the noise level at BMA, so SAS bought them and LF bought F-28. Why? No T/R on the Fokker. Keep up the good work!
@PAtravels_sweden
Жыл бұрын
Really interested and informativ video👍! One thing SAS is Scandinavia Airlines System 😉
@hepphepps8356
Жыл бұрын
Audio is totally fine and adequate! Great work! (Senior audio recording engineer)
@djpalindrome
25 күн бұрын
The DC-8 and DC-9 were outstanding aircraft. Unfortunately it was all downhill from there. Only the Douglas Ungineers could manage to make the DC-10 more unstable and call it the MD-11
@toomanyuserids
Жыл бұрын
The DC-8 was always a great ride, tho $24 first class Braniff SFO-LAX 707 first leg to LatAm was sweet. The DC-9/MD-80 was also generally nice. I loathe the 737. I avoid it when possible. The seat layout on most carriers best described as 'chunk light tuna'. And it's been stretched way beyond any sanity. Give me Airbus. Better still, Embraer.
@atatexan
Жыл бұрын
More excellent work, sir.
@pavelavietor1
Жыл бұрын
hello thanks for the memories. saludos
@danpatterson8009
Жыл бұрын
Memories as 12-year-old of watching Mohawk BAC-111s at the Albany airport.
@robertoperezaguirreeliasca7559
Жыл бұрын
Flew them DC 9 - 15/32 some with aft airstairs at tail cone ….. in Mexico for 20 years a fleet of 21 a/c with AEROCALIFORNIA scheduled air carrier! All over Mexico LAX, SAN, PHX, TUS! Smooth flying! 24/7/365 80-100 hrs per month Day/night Rain or Shine IMC VMC Down to minimums! In 20 years 3 landings on one engine Nice landings Nice turbines P&W JT8-D
@spergicide97
Жыл бұрын
You should do a video on the DC5 at some point.
@medic_gamnig_savetf2
5 ай бұрын
Information: DC 9 is Turkish Airlines' first jet plane.
@uncbadguy
Жыл бұрын
Douglas always built great airplanes. I regret never getting a ride on a C-47/DC-3.
@tbusman1
Жыл бұрын
Where is part two at?
@billakers6082
Жыл бұрын
I flew the -10, -30 and -50's and I always liked the -10 due to the the performance. The -10 had the same roll rate as a F-16. You had to be on top of a -10 engine failure on takeoff as you could walk the spoilers which would decrease climb out performance.
@californiadreamin8423
Жыл бұрын
I flew the -15 and -32 in the U.K. I’d forgotten about spoiler drag !! Some of our ex RAF pilots said the -15 performance was similar to the Hunter. We called it the Pocket Rocket 😊
@macjim
Жыл бұрын
That very last scene of the aircraft landing and breaking its tail… tell us more please!
@heidirabenau511
Жыл бұрын
It's a crash test for certification.
@macjim
Жыл бұрын
@@heidirabenau511 ah! Thank you for that information.
@TheUglyGnome
Жыл бұрын
@@heidirabenau511 Not a crash test. A landing distance test.May 2, 1980. MD-80. Excessive sink rate and pilot's inability to correct it resulted in very hard landing. One flight-test engineer injured.
@crazygood150
Жыл бұрын
Fun fact, it was actually rebuilt and flown after that!
@marcmcreynolds2827
Жыл бұрын
Sink rate at touchdown was about 16 fps, vs the MLG's design failure rate of 15 fps, so at least the gear went above and beyond (perhaps helped by the tail coming off for load relief : ) The test card called for no trajectory adjustments below 100 ft, but the (FAA?) pilot decided they could finesse things and save a go-around. In the original 16 mm film you could see the fuselage noticeably bend for a film frame or two, and the tail get dragged along on the runway by control cables for maybe a second or less until those broke as well.
@N330AA
Жыл бұрын
Wow, i've got a lot of respect of Vesna Vulović
@Kindle1234
Жыл бұрын
Have a question. on the very first DC9 models, 10 series, if I remember correctly there was not a rear stair exit, is that right? the 15 series had a rear stair exit with two over wing emergency exits where 10 series only had one over wing exit each side of fuselage.
@johnyoung1128
Жыл бұрын
I don’t know about model specifics but the rear airstair was not universal, some had it and some didn’t, I believe it was a customer option. I once worked for a airfreight company that had two series 33 aircraft one of which had the ventral stairs and the other did not.
@Kindle1234
Жыл бұрын
@@johnyoung1128 Thanks a bunch for the reply. I remember flying Southern and Delta airlines starting in 1970 and both use the DC9. Remember pilots calling them Baby 9's.
@peterbradshaw8018
Жыл бұрын
This is what book keeping aficionados watch for kicks.
@MichaelSeaBelA
7 ай бұрын
Today is 4 months since the 40th anniversary of the crash of Air Illinois Flight 710 near Pinckneyville, Illinois due to the flightcrew's mismanagement of electrical generator and distribution problems. All 10 passengers and crew were killed in the accident. Why couldn’t Air Illinois purchase a few DC-9-10 series?! Maybe access to spare parts would have been easier as well as better training for pilots and Air Illinois may stay in business longer than disappearing in 1984. If the airplane for Air Illinois Flight 710 was a DC-9-10 series, the accident may never have happened.
@johnthechoochooaddict796
Жыл бұрын
This plane looks very similar to the Space Shuttle.
@brycmtthw
Жыл бұрын
St. Louis is pronounced St. Lewis btw. And Louisville is pronounced Louuhvuhl
@nopenotme6369
Жыл бұрын
First flight 2/25. I see why you released I today.
@RoyxlPFX
Жыл бұрын
Anyone else laugh at the clip of the bouncing DC-9/MD-80 @24:51? 😂😅 💪('ω'💪)
@danmathers141
Жыл бұрын
I flew one on North Central Airlines.
@dorianplayerone
Жыл бұрын
a DC-9 flew over our house the other night
@Andrewjg_89
Жыл бұрын
Was the Douglas DC-9 aircraft as good and efficient. Or was it a aircraft that had lots of problems.
@johnyoung1128
Жыл бұрын
I was a mechanic doing maintenance on this type for several years and I found it a reliable and well engineered aircraft. The pilots who worked for the same company as myself liked them too, they liked its handling and performance.
@icarus_falling
Жыл бұрын
What's the story behind the tail breaking off the aircraft at the 24:50 mark?
@Part_121
Жыл бұрын
Not sure about that one, but when I worked at Eastern Airlines, we had one crack in half on landing in Pensacola, FL, sometime in the late 80s. Luckily no one was killed, but 3 people were injured.
@johnyoung1128
Жыл бұрын
Its a MD80 that had an excessively high sink rate landing during flight testing by McDonnell Douglas.
@HenriqueCarneiroM
Жыл бұрын
So, none of the accidents are related to the aircraft project itself but more regarding to other factors...🤔
@moosifer3321
Жыл бұрын
Looks like Gromit!
@5milessep
5 ай бұрын
A great video, but I have one comment. The narrative around downing of the JAT flight in 1972 is highly questionable, and I believe it to be rather the work of the Yugoslav state spy agency UDBA to discredit Croatian emigre’s as terrorists. There had been similar UDBA operations conducted around the world aimed at achieving the same outcome with great success.
@vladilenkalatschev4915
Жыл бұрын
Still partly lives as the Chinese ARJ-21
@maxart3392
Жыл бұрын
Ironically with wings designed by Antonov
@BritishTrainspotting
Жыл бұрын
Microphone / audio issues recently?
@hepphepps8356
Жыл бұрын
Not hearing any problems. Whats wrong?
@rafaele.maduro3638
Жыл бұрын
Mad dogs the univers of most pilot real pilots.
@retepeyahaled2961
3 ай бұрын
What a rediculous use of language! All sentences are more than a minute long and consist of dozens of sentences glued together, tying dozens of topics together in one sentence. In the end, it becomes one big word salad. That being said, I am deeply impressed by the overall quality of your videos.
@T3ki1a_
Жыл бұрын
The dc-9 like a dc-10 but nothing alike
@FlatSix981
Жыл бұрын
Southern Airways 242
@billolsen4360
Жыл бұрын
I recall getting claustrophobic in DS-9's compared to 737's
@petervanstaden9764
Жыл бұрын
The commentary on this is spoken faaaar took fast to follow easily. Good info but it's like he's late for boarding.
@ScaledVideo
Жыл бұрын
The bit about the woman's heart potentially exploding, due to decompression, sounds very dodgy. Being unconcious would have little to do with her heart suviving the pressure change.
@MrWage
Жыл бұрын
Stop mispronouncing St. Louis. Americans pronounce it like Lewis, not Louie.
@nandolopes9897
Жыл бұрын
Get over it, there is no complete happiness in life.
@stefansoder6903
Жыл бұрын
Very good! Thank you! But why do you taint your good work with speculative bullshit? No, hearts do not explode from decompression. And all the accidents you refer to are due to other things than the aircraft.
@oliidp8066
Жыл бұрын
fix the sound but another very good video
@unclefart5527
Жыл бұрын
I endured these screamers that Air Canada worked to death (until the were finally illegal in civilized countries) climbing over my house every few minutes every morning for several years. Not a fan.
@greatwestern101
Жыл бұрын
I would say Boeing designed more attractive aircraft.
@e28forever30
Жыл бұрын
I see, I hear sped up computer voice, I stop watching.
@pavelavietor1
Жыл бұрын
hello you confuse America for the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, unless you are maliciously conditioning the people of the USA to forget their true identity. saludos Iberoamericanos
@masonaxenty4869
Жыл бұрын
Nice of you to release this video on the anniversary of the plane’s maiden flight!
@cellpat2686
Жыл бұрын
Regardless of what the government did to force sales of it to airlines, the DC9 turned out to be a well built product as well. So well designed that it still flies today, as the Boeing 717 jetliner.
@DC9Douglas
Жыл бұрын
Best documentary of the DC-9 that I've seen. Thank you 😊! I first flew one with my hometown's Midwest Express Airlines. Most of their fleet was DC-9, until mid-2000's when their 717-2BL order started being delivered.
@kenfrievalt7826
Жыл бұрын
Milwaukee 🍻
@peterj.cressman165
Жыл бұрын
The 737 did not modify its fuselage design from the 707 or 727…..it’s the exact same fuselage design….
@heidirabenau511
Жыл бұрын
Ooh, a two parter, how exciting! Just the audio is quite muffled.
@BobbyGeneric145
Жыл бұрын
I like it. Makes it sound like an old promo film.
@debbiegiles9144
Жыл бұрын
You found part two? Lol
@lcprivatepilot1969
Жыл бұрын
Audios alright, the speed at which he speaks reminds me of the ole Fed Ex commercials
@persjofors2586
Жыл бұрын
Always liked to fly the DC9, especially the later MD80 versions with its engines so far back (I always sit up front) no or very little engine noise entered the cabin. Once I was on the very first model (without the leading edge slats). A plane that, at the time, was around 40 years old.
@bishwatntl
Жыл бұрын
I had the good fortune to ride on a series of rear-engined airliners and I agree about the quiet cabin. My first flight was aboard an Air France Caravelle, and I then went on to multiple flights on BAC 1-!!, VC-10, DC-9 and MD-80 (most of the latter being flown by Swissair or SAS).
@persjofors2586
Жыл бұрын
@@bishwatntl I've done my fair share of BAC-1-11 and Boeing 717, but never Caravel and maybe one flight on a VC-10
@JTA1961
Жыл бұрын
I asked for a window seat... &... got "wonderful" view of engine, twice the sound & ALL the restroom smells. Will revise requests in the future
@tron.44
Жыл бұрын
I sat right next to the turbine several times. Window vibrated my jaw loose. A deep low humming sound accompanied by vibrations of varying intensity. I was drunk so it was fun.
@charlesmoss8119
Жыл бұрын
Gosh brilliant - I flew a lot on DC9 and MD80 as we travelled from London to Zurich a fair bit when I was a child - I always remember the take offs being seemingly more ‘assertive’ than on other aircraft though no idea of this was just perception and r a feature of the type. Many happy memories and I thank you for your brilliant efforts to bring these videos to us and I’m sure a lot of very hard work.
@JTA1961
Жыл бұрын
Nothing like their swift kick in the ass... when the pilot his the "gas"
@LMays-cu2hp
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing the DC-9.. They are really nice. Hawaiian Airlines still fly their DC-9 in the island hopping. Delta still fly their DC-9s as well.
@johnosbourn4312
Жыл бұрын
Delta doesn't have the basic DC-9, anymore, and they used to fly the Mad Dog, untill a few years, ago.
@DC9Douglas
Жыл бұрын
I believe that Hawaiian doesn't fly the DC-9 anymore...
@LMays-cu2hp
Жыл бұрын
@@DC9Douglas Thank you. They, Hawaiian Airlines, fly those 717s still. Theu look so close to the old DC-9s. Thank you again for sharing that memory in me. The last time I was in Hawaii was back in 2008.
@scpatl4now
Жыл бұрын
You missed the 1996 crash of a ValueJet DC-9 On May 11, 1996, ValuJet suffered its highest-profile accident when Flight 592, a DC-9 flying from Miami to Atlanta, crashed into the Florida Everglades, killing all 110 people on board. The crash was caused by an onboard fire triggered by full chemical oxygen generators that were illegally stowed in the cargo hold without their safety caps, by maintenance subcontractor SabreTech. The resulting investigation revealed numerous systemic flaws, and ultimately faulted both SabreTech for storing the generators on the plane along with ValuJet for not supervising them.
@jonathankleinow2073
Жыл бұрын
ValuJet, and later AirTran, really ran their DC-9 fleet ragged, and each had a few accidents without any fatalities. ValuJet was to be the launch customer for the Boeing 717 (or the MD-95 or even DC-9-95 if you're so inclined). A lot of people assume ValuJet shut down after the Everglades crash, but they actually bought and merged with AirTran in order to obtain a new identity, if you will. I will say that, by the time Southwest bought AirTran in 2011, they had a very modern fleet of 717s and 737s. Delta bought and refurbished their 717 fleet from Southwest and plans to fly them until 2025.
@Sacto1654
Жыл бұрын
@@jonathankleinow2073 The 717-200 fleet will be replaced by the A220-100, of which Delta already has a small fleet.
@TheHylianBatman
Жыл бұрын
The loss of McDonnell-Douglas continues to make me sad.
@yukooomi
Жыл бұрын
Its profit driven ideology has affected Boeing's safety standard, too. it's a loss for both ends, indeed.
@huwzebediahthomas9193
Жыл бұрын
McDonald Douglas should not have let Boeing in through their boardroom doors.
@Ayresii1995
Жыл бұрын
Could say the same to Boeing because as soon as the MD people made their way into the boardroom Boeing started caring more about profit than safety
@brycmtthw
Жыл бұрын
Why? The surviving company is just McDonnell Douglas with the name Boeing.
@johnoneill5661
Жыл бұрын
Such a shame that the Comet had so many problems as it was an absolutely beautiful looking aircraft unlike the other planes of that era.
@MrJimheeren
Жыл бұрын
It was horribly designed from the get-go. Internal engines way to close to the main body. The weird big main landing gear. And put in production way to fast just to beat the Americans to show them Britain still mattered (it didn’t). And look how fast that came back to them
@GSteel-rh9iu
Жыл бұрын
3 planes crashed this early in civilian jet history no airline would risk buying this and the world moved on ... There was no empire left to buy these kinds of massive f*))*)&*-ups.
@tomellingham8627
Жыл бұрын
The Comet was a trail blazer, and unfortunately, the manufacturer and the aircraft ended up paying the higher cost for being a leader, not a follower. All proposed jet engined windows were designed square before De Havilland worked out - after hugely expensive scientific investigation - that a square window design in a pressurised aircraft can lead to structural failure. An oval windowed design is the safer solution. The Comet makers re-engineered the Comet and shared all their lessons-learned with the entire airliner manufacturing industry for the benefit of everybody. It cost them dearly. Other manufacturers could learn from the experience of the world's first jetliner, saving a fortune in R+D, and reap the benefits in the order books, free from the stigma of negative publicity associated with the pioneering aircraft design. Nontheless, the redesigned classic Comets that flew proved in the end to be fantastically rugged and reliable aircraft that served operators well into the late 20th century. Considering it was the world's first jet airliner, it was a success. Whenever we make a routine flight aboard a comfortable, modern pressurised 320, 737, or 321, we fly in technology with roots in the pioneering Comet design. History can be however we like to tell it - but it's always best if history represents the truth. And the Comet was also, as you say, a beautiful aircraft.
@tomellingham8627
Жыл бұрын
My previous comment underestimated the longevity of the Comet somewhat. 😄 I forgot that the Nimrod - for a long time an integral part of NATO air defence, as well as an undisputedly valuable search and rescue tool - even surviving intact after a sea ditching in the late 90s. The Nimrod served daily missions every day into the 2010s. It's easy to forget - as I just did - the Nimrod was none other than a military versioned Comet.
@CosmicPanda855
Жыл бұрын
@@MrJimheeren and now, the UK is an integral - & vital - part of the Airbus Industrie program, which as you’ll be aware, is currently the worlds foremost commercial aviation provider…
@mcjdubpower
Жыл бұрын
I see, I click like, I watch.
@stanislavkavale4813
Жыл бұрын
...spot the error at 21.32, Czech Islands???? c'mon man! we don't even have a coastline.
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