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Airplane Art – Delta Air Lines Boeing 717

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It’s Easter Sunday, which means firstly – Happy Easter – and secondly, time for some more airplane art.

Many thanks to the readers who have put my spotting skill to shame as usual. But then again, you try playing spotting the different between an MD-80, MD-90 or a Boeing 717 (MD-95).

On final approach to Chicago O’Hare International airport on a warming spring day (to the point I didn’t need to wear a coat to go onto the hotel balcony) is a Delta Air Lines McDonnell Douglas MD-88. Boeing 717

Delta Air Lines McDonnell Douglas MD-88, Image - Economy Class and Beyond

Delta operate 116 of this venerable aircraft in its US Domestic fleet, operating across the Delta mainline network

Delta operate over 60 of the last iteration of the DC-9 design (in it’s Boeing 717 form), making them the largest worldwide operator of the Boeing 717. Delta is also the largest operator ofof the MD-88 including the McDonnell Douglas MD-88 and Boeing 717 (originally the McDonnell Douglas MD-95).

Additional thanks to http://www.thirtythousand.us/2012/07/09/dc-9-md-80-b717-whats-the-difference/ in helping to play “guess the difference” with which version of the DC-9 family the aircraft in the image is.

More Airplane art next week!

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Comments

    • Kevincm says

      Tailcone and engines is the key thing to look for here – the tailcone is a classic MD tapered tail (like the 777 tail) and the engines are elongated too.

      So.. I still think it’s a MD-88.

  2. Mark cassidy says

    The is a 717 fri the AirTran fleet which a re now seen quite often in Chicago. . They have the md90 engines with the beaver tail with a short body? Only 24 windows to the first wing exit. The 88 has many more rows before the first wing exit.