American Airlines Introduces the DC-10 - 1971- Chet Huntley Commercial

[guillemd11]

Love the Dc-10!

[SimHarrison]

Best plane ever built.

[LongLiveTheDC10]

@SimHarrison yeah DC-10 is the best looking plane

[LagunaZurfer]

I hate 2011 already.

[wildbrad]

Ironically, this lounge area proved to be an asset with the early cargo door failures that happened on the DC-10 for AA... mainly that no passengers were sitting in the area where the cabin floor collapsed when the cargo door blew out, which also prevented a total failure of the flight control cables that took place later in the Turkish Airlines crash...

[beernpizzalover]

@wildbrad I'm impressed - you know your airplane crashes pretty well. I first got interested in aviation after the 1979 American Airlines (Flight 191) crash in Chicago, which involved a maintenance problem on the engine pylon.

[Ramonwoerden]

Love the accent!

[bearpaw72]

I really like that last statement Mr. Huntley made, because in praising this product he acknowledged that future planes would inevitably become more advanced.

[OlegKostoglatov]

@bearpaw72 Yes, they would learn how to make cargo doors that wouldn't blow out and floors that wouldn't collapse from explosive decompression thanks to the DC-10

[albear972]

Damn! check out that kick ass living room there. That's effin' awesome.

[TomsFriendKake]

@albear972 At one time, Continental even had a "Pub" complete with real wood bar and bar stools on their DC-10's and would serve dagwood sandwiches.

[johneddy98033]

An improved version of the DC-10, the MD-11, would be introduced two decades later, and of course, American would use both versions.

[yoyoyoyoshua]

@johneddy98033 I heard that there isn't a whole lot of improvments, besides length and winglets on MD11's, I was talking to a KC-10 pilot and he said that they get the same problems as the MD-11, now I don't know if thats cause of it being a military plane but... yeah.

[WingsOTWorld]

Lol, I loved how "virtually smokeless" could be used as a way to advertise back then...how far we've come since then.

[bearpaw72]

@WingsOTWorld

I also liked "an inspiration for planes yet to be built" because it showed enough modesty to recognize that future planes would be more advanced.

[Oldbmwr100rs]

@WingsOTWorld I still remember the ling black contrails from jets coming out of SFO as a kid,watching the planes fly out, the long black contrails coming from the engines.I thought those were so cool though! I liked seeing the jets flying out of Alameda NAS as well.

[alartandy]

Goodnight, Chet.

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