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Plane Spotting

While coming in to land around 70 minutes ago, I found myself pondering on the MD-81 aircraft (second plane of the evening, the first one was a Boeing 737). It’s an odd beastie, the MD-81 (or really I should say the MD-80/90 range, as it applies to all of them); long and thin, with oddly foreshortened and rear-positioned wings, and engines at the rear under the tailplane. Because of all this, you can be quite a long way back, and on a smooth approach (because of the lack of wing visibility and cabin engine noise) once you’re at a low enough altitude, looking out of the window gives you the odd feeling that you’re on a train.