...Yes, and the DC-9-10 is probably the most well-proportioned and attractive of the DC/MD series.... We won't discuss the noise factor when you are seated in the last row of a DC9-10, though :>} Bryant Petitt Cumming, GA --- David Mueller <dmueller7@lycos.com> wrote: > 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 *** __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com