On Friday, January 24, 2003, at 08:08 AM, Matthew Sheren wrote: > And besides, haven't we learned > > that shrunken planes (A318, A342, 737-600) just don't work? But the 717 does, because the -200 is actually a stretch! The 717-100 would go back to about the size of the original design, the DC-9-10. DC engineers were such masters of the stretched airplane (DC-8, DC-9/MD-80, and even DC-10/MD-11) that we forget just how small they started out as. -- David Mueller / HNL dmueller7@lycos.com http://www.quanterium.com *** Read the Airline List FAQ at http://airlinefaq.tripod.com ***