From kls Thu Aug 28 02:30:41 1997 Newsgroups: sci.aeronautics.airliners Path: bounce-back Date: 28 Aug 97 02:30:41 From: kls@ohare.Chicago.COM (Karl Swartz) Subject: Re: DC-9 series 10 and 15 References: Message-ID: Approved: kls@ohare.Chicago.COM Sender: kls@ohare.Chicago.COM Organization: Chicago Software Works, Menlo Park, California >First of all, the -10 and -15 are both considered series 10 aircraft. >Therefore, they have the same fuselage, wings and gross weights. The DC-8-61, -62, and -63 are all series 60 DC-8s, but that does not imply they share the same fuselage, wings, or gross weights. They do not! >From what I can tell, the difference between the DC-9-14 and -15 is that the latter has uprated engines, allowing a higher gross weight. It's entirely possible that -14s have been upgraded to -15s, and it appears that Northwest has done so with their fleet, but that does not imply that *all* series 10 DC-9s have the same gross weight. -- Karl Swartz |Home kls@chicago.com |Work kls@netapp.com |WWW http://www.chicago.com/~kls/ Moderator of sci.aeronautics.airliners -- Unix/network work pays the bills