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 ...

The rivalry between the Boeing 737 and Airbus A320 is among the fiercest and most famous in aviation history. However, the 737, which is roughly 20 years older than the A320, originally competed with ...

The MD-88 and MD-90 jets will disappear from U.S. fleets when Delta completes their final flights. Weak travel demand because of the coronavirus pandemic prompted Delta to retire the planes early.

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 marked the end of an era on 2 June when it retired its final McDonnell Douglas MD-88 and MD-90 aircraft, closing 34 years during which the types served as workhorses in the fleets of ...

The Boeing-NASA X-66A will be developed from an MD-90-30 variant originally delivered to China Northern in 1999. Credit: Boeing/NASA A lot is riding on the success of the X-66A—NASA’s Sustainable ...

A set of hard-working airplanes with a colorful nickname, “Mad Dogs,” have earned a long afterlife for the name McDonnell Douglas, an aircraft maker that disappeared in a 1997 merger. But on Tuesday, ...

Delta has finalized a deal to acquire nine MD-90 aircraft from China Eastern, which will give Delta the second-largest MD-90 fleet in the world and leave China Eastern with none. Delta disclosed the ...