2008 Blue Angels Homecoming - KC-10 Extender Arrival

[gumbykevbo]

Since Boeing bought MacAir/Douglass, the airframe is basically and orphan. Boeing would rather sell the AF 7x7 based air frames than support the legacy of one of it's acquisitions.

[fsxdave24]

at :59 you can hear them blaring music in the plane :P

[robertito514]

@fsxdave24 yaaa its called an airshowww

[rampking1]

A historical fact: It was a KC-10 and a group of F-15's that were the first responders to Saudi Arabia when Iraq oocupied Kuwait.

[yoyoyoyoshua]

nice I was at the McCord AFB airexpo and I got into one and it was pretty cool like I went into the cockpit the the refuel cockpit place

[rampking1]

Dollar for dollar, One of the BEST investments the USAF has ever made.

DC10-30F  > KC10

Anyone know why they haven't done the FedEx style "glass-cockpit" conversion on all of them?

[Meandroid]

@rampking1 Cause they had to make too many changes during fitting for the mod. It might get upgrades in the future but the cost:benefit ratio isn't quite there yet.

[RainbowManification]

@rampking1 Idk, the USAF is old school, they should though.

[rampking1]

@RainbowManification I've loaded, serviced and towed the aircraft but I am out of the loop on this.

Just figured that the unit cost might be lower if the USAF would have joined in when FedEx was doing the modification.

Talked to a crew member and he was a bit embarrasssed that I brought this up and was aware of it.

Then again he wasn't the flight engineer!

[pntman8990]

And carries up to 75 people

[pntman8990]

its a DC-10-300 with mods and holds 359,000 POUNDS of fuel, not gallons. It's max weights is only 590,000 lbs or so but stll takes the place of three KC 135 stratotankers.

[TheFighterpilot93]

Its the dc-10 just with a little upgrades

[kemosabe62]

goin to see one of these babys where the vids taken place in 2 weeks,,so ready to walk inside it

[sixxgunxquota]

Nice video. The KC-10's from McGuire come to my airport a lot to do some pattern work and other exercises. They are fun to watch, especially when nothing even close to size ( with the exception of a Fedex A300) comes to my airport (Ksyr)

[5diddo]

i've flown on one of these all the way from japan to north carolina before. It was probably nothing for a stratotanker though, considering the kc-10 holds over 300,00 gallons of fuel. :)

[slh950]

this must be the military version of the DC-10?

[AccountNotFound]

yes it is, but it is also a mid air refueler

[Meandroid]

@slh950 Converted DC-10-30 for refueling missions. Very different internally than the commercial version.

[SoccerBoy77]

@slh950 yep

[bl00De]

@slh950 it is. they were converted

[RainbowManification]

@slh950 correct.

[aurora85]

great video of my baby!