Delta Air Lines’ MD-88 and MD-90 aircraft were noisy, aging and nearing the end of their usefulness before the coronavirus outbreak. But the pandemic sped up the retirement of the "Mad Dog" jets, ...

Delta Air Lines initially placed a large order for the McDonnell Douglas MD-90. However, the merger of McDonnell Douglas with Boeing in 1997 ended the program, with Delta only receiving 16 new ...

Boeing has partnered with NASA to ferry an MD-90 airplane from Victorville to Palmdale as part of an experimental aircraft project. Boeing's MD-90 will undergo modifications to test the Transonic ...

A Lion Air Boeing MD-90 has been identified as the aircraft that had a part fall off onto the taxiway prior to take-off but it was a section of the engine’s outer casing rather than a wing section as ...

Boeing has started dismantling and scanning an old MD-90 as part of a multi-year NASA-supported project to transform the former passenger jet into the X-66A truss-braced-wing demonstrator. Since the ...

A former Delta Air Lines MD-90 begins its transformation into the NASA X-66A at Boeing's Palmdale facility. Boeing Begins MD-90 Modification For NASA X-66A Program is published in Aerospace Daily & ...

NASA and Boeing have achieved a significant milestone in the Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project, marking progress toward a potential new era of aviation. Boeing flew an MD-90 aircraft from ...

When we think of McDonnell Douglas, we often picture robust airliners almost entirely lost to time today. But many of these historic aircraft come from before the Jet Age, when McDonnell Douglas was ...

Delta retired the last of its McDonnell Douglas aircraft Tuesday after carrying more than 750 million passengers on MD-88 and MD-90 aircraft. The last MD-88 flight, appropriately named Delta Flight 88 ...

Delta Air Lines has acquired seven more MD-90 aircraft from Japan Airlines (JAL), the carrier disclosed in an April 18 message to employees. The purchase follows the acquisition of nine MD-90s from ...