Hello My name is Ron I started out helping building the ninth DC-9 and the Customer was Bonanza Airline such a beautiful paint job white background with black and Bronze stripes. I started working for Douglas Aircraft June 1965. My very first job was working in the aft cargo with the hardshell fiberglass . I also worked on the Horizonal stablizer which is the whole tail. I helped out on the Playboy Bunny Airplane all black and white Bunny on the Tail bet that plane was hot in the summer time hope it had a strong airconditioner on it. I worked on the center over wing floors and cockpit floors later on when it was named the MD Super 80. It was a very good on jet fuel and comfortable being a passenger .

The forward leading edges had holes in them to defrost the wings in cold weather so lots of MD Awesome80s were used in places where it snowed a lot and deiced the wings very effectly. I worked at Douglas Aircraft in Long Beach for 33 years I guess the DC 9 was an important Jet Liner in my life that I use DCNINER02 as my email address.

Aircraft building was a good job for me and he DC 9 has been very good for lots of Airlines and has been built for many years 39 years as of 2004. Now it goes by the name of the Boeing 717 now but still a very good Jet plane in our skies today. Lots of other good Aircraft Mechanics has helped build the DC 9 and very proud to have helped build them. Hawaiian Air really had a beautiful paint job with the Hawaiian Flower on the tail. DC 9 was also called the twin jet and some how I had twin boys in the Awesome80s too bad I did not get a picture of them in Pilot and co pilot uniforms next to a DC 9 twin jet might have made for a good advertisement. Twin Jet for twin boys . I hope Boeing builds more of the twin Jets.
Later

--Ron the riveter (now retired)