Talk:McDonnell Douglas MD-80/MD-90

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[edit] Series

• I believe the MD-90 and MD-95 were the only ones in the MD90 series, so 'series' should be removed from the 'MD-90 series' and 'MD-95 series' section headers. Any arguement against this? Thanks.. -Fnlayson 23:11, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Further Split?

The rationale at Talk:McDonnell_Douglas_DC-9#Split was that because the MD-80 and MD-90 were different generation aircraft to the DC-9, they should be split from that article. Given the MD-90 could likewise be argued to be a different generation to the MD-80, albeit one which didn't meet the same success, I think we should split this article, and have one for the MD-80, and one for the MD-90 (and move all but the basic description of the MD-95 to the Boeing 717 article).--Nick Moss 00:31, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

• Don't think there's enough on the MD-90 to warrant it's own article. The MD-95 is part of the 90 series so it should be briefly covered. -Fnlayson 00:38, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
• I thought the same originally, but there is not enough information on the MD-90. Andros 1337 17:48, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
• I doubt there is enough to cover a second article.. I really think the MD-90 is just a sub type of the 80 series, and not differentiated enough to warrant its own article. --Cliffb 17:20, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
• These aircraft are in the same series. If you look at the Boeing 737 and Airbus 320, you will find all of their variants under the same heading which is how this aircraft should be represented as well. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.176.3.38 (talk • contribs) .
• Well there is a problem calling all of the aircraft in the same series, yes they share design elements, but the B707,B737, and B757 all share the same basic fuselage.. shouldn't they be in the same article? I think we need to generally follow the info that comes from the manufacturer when we have the content for it. I think we should keep the MD-90 info on this page because of the sparcity of information we have. Once we've got enough content to split the MD-90 into its own article I'm all for that, but right now, I think we need to stay with one article for the MD-80 and 90 --Cliffb 21:36, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Same basic fuselage for B707, B737 & B757? Maybe designed using similar methods but that's about it.. - Fnlayson 19:15, 28 July 2006 (UTC)