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To: magellan

Thanks for the info. Learned something -- always wondered why it was a 720.

So, the 717 designation has been applied to two different planes -- the KC-135 and the MD-95 (or DC-9, as it used to be).

38 posted on 05/18/2011 8:31:29 PM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance On Parade)

To: okie01

So, the 717 designation has been applied to two different planes -- the KC-135 and the MD-95 (or DC-9, as it used to be).

Yes...as well as early designs of the 720s.

45 posted on 05/19/2011 12:20:37 AM PDT by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)

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