Update – McDonnell Douglas MD-91/92

McDonnell Douglas MD-91 & MD-92

Creating commercial best sellers from drawing board designs is the ultimate goal of every airframe manufacturer. Some aircraft make It in the real world airliner marketplace while others, for a variety of reasons, either fail financially to break even or struggle to remain in production from year to year as if awaiting a spring that never arrives.

Ideally, the most successful commercial airframes are those which naturally lend themselves to updating, retrofit or significant re-engineering to vastly improved later generation versions. Boeing’s 737 and 747 have been classic studies of major success stories in this regard as has McDonnell Douglas’ DC-8 and DC-9 airliners. Towards the future, Airbus will no doubt be able to ring many long-term variants from its A320 while both Fokker and British Aerospace will in time be able to perhaps offer their existing small jets with propfan technology thereby giving them a significantly enhanced life cycle as commercial airframe programmes.

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