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Old 28th August 2011 | 16:12
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barit1
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When they stretched the DC-9 to make the 80 series, they had to make the tail larger...
Earlier than that, the DC-9-50 introduced fixed chines (aspect ratio << 1.0) on the fwd fuselage at floor level.
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