{"id":135046,"date":"2024-09-30T23:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/mcdonnell-douglas-md-90-propfan-engines\/"},"modified":"2024-09-30T23:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T13:00:12","slug":"did-you-know-mcdonnell-douglas-considered-powering-the-md-90-with-propfan-engines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=135046","title":{"rendered":"Did You Know: McDonnell Douglas Considered Powering The MD-90 With Propfan Engines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"256170\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/mcdonnell-douglas\/\"  >McDonnell Douglas<\/a><\/span> produced multiple versions of the MD-90, including the standard -30, -30ER, and -30IGW, the company proposed many more. According to the Los Angeles Times, they considered shorter variants, like the -10, which would hold around 114 passengers, and the -40, an extended option with up to 180 seats. However, there was one very peculiar design that the aircraft manufacturer poured research into: <strong>the MD-94X, featuring propfan engines<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The collaboration with General Electric almost made it to production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,13240,408,505,9979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-commercial-aviation","category-history","category-mcdonnell-douglas","category-mcdonnell-douglas-md-90"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135047,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135046\/revisions\/135047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}