It's a bittersweet day as an American Airlines icon bids farewell. 36 years of greatness has now come to an end as the McDonald Douglas MD-80 better known as the "Mad Dog" and "Super 80" officially enters retirement today. It's final flight with American Airlines Flight# 80 from Dallas (DFW) to Chicago (ORD) this morning is now a story in the aviation history books. It's final resting place will be the boneyard in Roswell, New Mexico. What a marvelous aircraft and definitely one of my favorites. I had the opportunity to fly on an MD-80 from Charlotte to Dallas in the summer of 2012 before finally calling Texas my new home. Now I have to find a nice scale model just like the one in the picture.
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