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| [ Northwest DC-9-10 ] Review by Mark Becker 7/14/02 Average Price: $32 USD Released: |
| [ History ] The Douglas Commercial DC-9 was developed as a short range airliner complementing the much larger DC-8, and filling a market sector that at the time Boeing had been neglecting. Development was launched on April 8, 1963, with a launch order from Delta Airlines following soon after. The DC-9 was an all new design, featuring rear fuselage mounted engines, a T-tail, moderately-swept wings and seats for 90 passengers. Construction of the prototype began in July 1963 and the firt flight occurred on February 25th, 1965. Certification and service entry occurred on November 23rd and December 8th, 1965 respectively. The DC-9 had been designed with stretched larger capacity developments in mind, and such versions of the basic DC-9-10 soon followed. The first stretch resulted in the highest-selling member of the family, the 4.54 (14ft 11in) longer, 105 seat DC-9-30, which entered service with Eastern Airlines on February 1st, 1967. Small numbers of developed versions of the DC-9-10 were also built. The DC-9-20 featured DC-9-10's fuselage with the -30's more powerful engines and longer wingspan, giving better hot and high performance. The DC-9-15 was basically a -10 but with greate fuel capacity and higher operating weights. |
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| They call it the Lone -15 because it is Northwest's only DC-9-15. Originally this aircraft was owned and operated by Hughes Airwest, who also has a large fleet of DC-9's. AeroClassics also has produced a Hughes DC-9-10. |
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| This heavy little aircraft needs much more detail on the wings and tail wings, such as flaps, and lights, and all. A big minus. Also, poor painting above the wings. There is a grey space in between the white belly and blue. The blue should cover up the grey. Not good. A big crack from the wings the end is also visible because the wings and engines are removable for some reason with a big screw on the bottom. The blue stripes along the plane at the end should go down a little bit farther also. Otherwise the rest of the plane looks wonderful. The windows are great. Like most miniature aircraft, when you rub your finger along the windows of the aircraft, you can feel the ridges of them. And nice to see the KLM/Northwest Logo. I also really think AeroClassics should include a belly logo. |
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| No detail at all on wings Poor paint job Screw on bottom, able to remove wings |
| Excellant window detail Good choice |
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| Gate18 Score Rating 71.0% |
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