Northwest's Orphan Mad Dogs

[YesterAirlines]

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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[ghqv2988]

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'

www.yesterdaysairlines.com

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Incredible model and informative review. I may just scoop this one up in the near future!

 

[JJ Skippy]

Hopefully Phoenix has some Republic MD-80s in the works soon. Was hoping these releases would’ve been that but this Northwest is a nice one still.

 

[squatchys_diecast_hangar]

Hopefully Phoenix has some Republic MD-80s in the works soon. Was hoping these releases would’ve been that but this Northwest is a nice one still.

We just uploaded 2 Phoenix NW MD-80's yesterday, they are quite nice. AK actually took one home along with a Swissair MD-80

 

[bakejobb_23]

We just uploaded 2 Phoenix NW MD-80's yesterday, they are quite nice. AK actually took one home along with a Swissair MD-80

Are the antenna in the correct position or are they misplaced?

 

[squatchys_diecast_hangar]

Are the antenna in the correct position or are they misplaced?

We didn't get a tape measure out but looked correct to me, and AK had no issues either when he inspected them at the store yesterday