Date: 28 Aug 97 02:30:40
From: Jack Raithel <jraithel@netten.net>
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I've seen several questions in regards to the DC-9 and it's various
configurations. I've been flying the DC-9 for the last 20 years (Hughes
Airwest, Republic and Northwest) and thought I could clear up a couple
of things.
First of all, the -10 and -15 are both considered series 10 aircraft.
Therefore, they have the same fuselage, wings and gross weights. The
only difference was the "original" powerplants. On the original
aircraft, the -10 was powered by JT8D-5 engines and the -15 was powered
by either -1's or -7's. Airwest and Republic had both -10's and
-15F's. All of our -10 and -15 aircraft had been re-engined with -7
engines. The F series (freighter) had a large cargo door located on the
left side of the fuselage.
The series 20 aircraft was a -10 fuselage with -30 wings (leading edge
slats) and had -9 powerplants. I believe someone said it had the -50
series engines (-17 powerplants), but that's not true. The pylons on
the -10 fuselage couldn't handle that much power. There were
approximately 20 series 20 aircraft built and all of them were sold to
SAS.
Jack
