This Northwest MD-82 has sat in its box for a little while now, but today has finally escaped and is honoured with a look at the history of NW's MD-82s. For an aircraft that Northwest clearly had very little interest in the Super 80 served a creditable number of years with the airline, although obviously it was outlasted by its smaller and older DC-9 brethren:
Northwest's Orphan Mad Dogs
Deregulation brought incredible turbulence to the previously rather placid US airline system and this was only mad worse by the PATCO strike of 1981 and economic downturns. This led to many airline failures and consolidation, which in turn led to airline'
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