Originally Posted by
enviroian
First off I don't know about anyone else here typing from the comfort of their office but if I was on that plane seeing that piece rumble inside that engine I would be scared s-less.
Secondly as I was watching NBC news this morning still half awake the anchor was telling this story. He said "they call this plane the mad dog due to the noise it makes screaming down the runway". I laughed so hard in bed it has already made my day.
Delta Promotes Pilots to Captain Faster If They Fly This Terrible Plane
The MD-88, nicknamed "Mad Dog," is old, noisy, cramped in the cockpit, and a young pilot's ticket to an early promotion.
The McDonnell Douglas MD-88, the final variant of the MD-80 twin-engine single-aisle jet, is the oldest plane in service with any major U.S. airline. Introduced in 1988, pilots call the jet "Mad Dog." It has "eyebrow windows" that were common when pilots navigated by the stars—but now they tend to let light glares hit pilots right in the eyes. The cockpit has been described as a "cage" with no room to stretch. The aircraft controls are antiquated and require pilots to relearn checklist procedures, and Mad Dog is so loud that U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York
applauded when Delta stopped flying it out of LaGuardia Airport.
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Read more here:
https://www.popularmechanics.com/fli...errible-plane/