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| Quoting PlymSpotter (Thread starter): Having tried many times to fly a SAS MD-81, I was disappointed again recently to get another MD-82 instead. |
| Quoting Viscount724 (Reply 1): What's the difference? I doubt you'd know that were on an MD-81 or an MD-82 unless you looked at the registration plate. |
| Quoting PlymSpotter (Reply 2): Quoting Viscount724 (Reply 1): What's the difference? I doubt you'd know that were on an MD-81 or an MD-82 unless you looked at the registration plate. Same goes for much of the DC/MD narrow body range. |
| Quoting Viscount724 (Reply 3): Actually, the DC/MD narrow body range is fairly easily-identifiable except the MD-81/82/83, and if you really go back, the DC-8-10/20/30. |
| Quoting PlymSpotter (Thread starter): What is the process involved in converting MD-80 aircraft like this? Is it just a case of changing the engines to the JT8D-219s and increasing MTOW on paper, or are there any physical alterations to the aircraft's structure and appearance? |
| Quoting PlymSpotter (Reply 4): Quoting Viscount724 (Reply 3): Actually, the DC/MD narrow body range is fairly easily-identifiable except the MD-81/82/83, and if you really go back, the DC-8-10/20/30. I was forgetting the DC-8 actually, but it still counts that almost half the types looks very similar. |
| Quoting Viscount724 (Reply 6): The CFM56 re-engining program that converted 110 -61/62/63s to -71/72/73s complicated DC-8 identification. It was easy to tell the stretched -61 and -63 models apart due to the different engine nacelles and pylons, but after re-engining it wasn't easy to tell them apart unless your eyes were sharp enough to spot the 6 ft. difference in wingspan |
| Quoting Fly2HMO (Reply 5): Not a mad-dog driver but just looking at specs from both variants I'm guessing they merely just uprated the engines, possibly without even having to swap them. The increased thrust of course allowed for an increase in MTOW. Other than that I don't see why the conversion would be any more involved. |
| Quoting Starlionblue (Reply 8): - More tankage for increased range? |
| Quoting FBU 4EVER! (Reply 11): You take the data plate on the engine, turned it around and there were the -219 numbers! A twist on a screw increased the fuel flow and, hey presto! you've got a -219 engine. |
| Quoting Starlionblue (Reply 8): AFAIK going 81-82-83. - Uprated engines, as you say possibly without swap. - Beefed up landing gear to handle the increased MTOW. - More tankage for increased range? |
| Quoting MDShady (Reply 14): You could go from an -81/82 to an -83? I thought you could only do an -81 to -82, or maybe -88? The -83 was extended range to begin with? |