@MrAviator96 Many dozens of the DC-10s built were converted to cargo for one company or another, mostly for FedEx, who appreciated the -10 model for domestic U.S. freight. There may not have been enough -15s built to bother with the sub-type in maintenance, etc., but I wasn't referring to doing this now so much as 10, 15 years ago when the freighter conversions were happening in large quantities. The -15s were broken up many years ago already, yet some much older ones live on.
@MrAviator96 I know. They were also produced for Mexicana as well. Most seem to have ended up with Sun Country, but from what I can tell most all of them were scrapped. I don't know why this would be on such late build aircraft. Seems they would have made great cargo haulers?
@XXXGhostGrenadeXXX This is not a DC-10-15 but a DC-10-10. The series 30s were not newer, in fact they were offered to airlines almost from the beginning. They don't carry more passengers either, in fact the extra gear leg was to compensate for added weight of the -30 intercontinental version. The -15 was newer, with higher rated engines, but sold in very small numbers to Mexican airlines. The engines on a -10 are CF6-6Ds, not 50Cs, or 50C2s, etc.
You guys think hes watching the radar alt and the VSI or just using visual cues to keep it that level?May sound like a dumb question but i'm a wannabe pilot.
@motokid032 Well it's a radio altimeter not a radar altimeter, at that level he'd be watching the Rad Alt. There'd be no point in watching the VSI at that level. I would guess he's using instinct for 75% of the manoeuvre and his Rad Alt and EADI for the other 25%
@motokid032 Your welcome, oh and it is either a stand alone analogue instrument or it's readout is integrated in the EADI, either way it only reads altitudes below 2,500ft on commercial aircraft (military Rad Alts tend to read alts below 5,000ft). The system basically works on the doppler effect.
The DC-10 is not a very reliable aircraft. It has a horrible crash record. Boeing has had crashes but not near as many as Douglas has. The 747 is a much better aircraft than this!!!
@12345Critic It's a Hawker Siddeley Gnat in the colours of the Royal Air Force 'Red Arrows' display team. The Gnat was a trainer, originally designed and built by Folland before they were bought by Hawker Siddeley, and the type served with the Royal Air Force, Finnish Air Force and Indian Air Force.
Went Caribbean Airways Gatwick / Barbados 1987 on a hired Air Ghana DC10. Air turbulance? You bet. The damn thing was flapping its wings. One of the best flights I ever did.
You have no idea what you are talking about. The DC-10 was very safe, it was the stupid idiots who took short cuts in the maintainance of them that caused the problems.
Freddy Laker told the US/FAA what the problem was but they wanted to put him out of business, and they did. I flew Laker Airways from Toronto to Manchester and return and felt much safer in those than the POS 747 I flew in from London to NYC.
YOU, have NO idea on what your talking about the dc-10 had faulty wiring cousing many in flight fires like the swiss airways accident thats why they made the MD-11
@johnmunoz18 The faulty wiring fire happened in an MD11 and was due to the installation of untested inflight entertainment system with no cooling system installed by Swissair. There haven't been any incidents of this happening to dc10s and it only happened to the MD11 only once(ie. the Swissair incident). This incident could probably have happened to any plane because most of them had the metalised PET insulate which was later proven flammable.
Here's a cool story for the DC-10 aircraft appreciators. In October of 1990 my college room mate's father flew me to Dallas to drive a car from Fort Worth, TX, to Swansea, MA. At the time I was very overweight and was around 350lbs., being too embarrassed to ask for an extension, I just hid the seat belt between both hands in-front of me. When this Northwest Airlines' DC-10 took off, the gravity force pushed me back in my seat with such force I had plenty of room to buckle my seatbelt.
we see again the constant myth that the 10 was unsafe , the majority of accidents was due to poor maintainance techniques and miss handling ,yes the cargo door had a design fault but was repaired early on , this aircraft is now the mainstay of the USAF tanker fleet .
It might have had some design flaws, but once they were worked out, it is a very safe aircraft and a work horse. I like it's younger brother better though, the Md-11. Md-11 is my favorite.
It's actually not. L1011's had Engine 2 molded into the tail of the plane. Easiest to tell the difference by the Engine under the tail. Furthermore, the diff between the DC10 and MD11 is easiest told by whether or not there are winglets.
A plane can fly and land with no engines lol...Without an engine the plane is a glider. Obviously you need to make an emergency landing, but a plane can fly with no engines.
In the DC-10 and MD-11 you could keep the middle gear up if you had less gross weight than required. Most pilot do it to keep the upkeep on the middle gear low.
The pilot has no choice in the matter. it's either gear up or gear down. The center gear can, however, be dispatched in the up and locked postion per the MEL. You suffer a weight penalty for doing so.
Looks like a former FedEX freighter. And to the poster about this being a "hybrid" without the extra set of landing gear, only the DC10-30, and (I think) the MD11 have the extra set of aft landing gear, all other models only had 2 back there.
This is indeed a DC10, it's just a Hybrid model without the center main landing gear. Do you have any idea the difference between the DC-10 and the DC-9?. It is huge!!
@32574 Please refer to your local airplane encyclopedia. You will understand that this is NOT a DC-9.. They're worlds apart. I don't know where you get your information from but you are sadly mistaken. Do a search on Airliners . Net, scroll down the long list and you will see that the DC-9 is TOTALLY different.
I saw this plane at Kemble, there was also another identical one with it.They were stored on the airfield for nearly 2 years until a south african airline brought both for £1.5 million . they were made in 1976
DC-10 definatly has a bad rap, when they were first introduced, a problem with the lock on the cargo door almost caused a crash, and the NTSB advised Douglas to make the lock better, but they didn't to save costs, and another on crashed, killing around 200 people.
This plane got a bad rap by the FAA. it was a ploy to put Freddy Laker out of business. I flew on a Laker Airways (SkyTrain) DC-10 back in 1978 and it was a much smoother ride than the 747 we flew on in '79.
GhostMjr, I believe it is either a Dash 10 or perhaps a Dash 15.
No center gear so definitely not a Dash 30.
On my monitor the video is not clear enough to determine if there is a pallet door for the foward cargo.
Special off subject note to my Russian aircraft supporter "friends" out there....even an old airliner like this puts out LESS smoke than a MiG 29 fly-by !!!! Lol!
Man! I miss those planes! Back in 1998, I flew on a BA DC-10 from Abidjan to London Gatwick. At the time, I had no idea that was the last opportunity I would have to fly on the wonderful tri-jet from Longbeach. The DC-10 was and is a fantastic airplane!
the dc10, definitely one of my favorite planes, im no aviation enthusiast, im a car enthusiast, but i still have that love for all sorts of vehicles... except trains..
FPVsean OMG ! You dont love trains ? How come ? I spent my entire life in the cab running freight trains. They have a flavor of their own and music too.
trains were never a field i specified in, sure, the french tgv and high speed trains are cool, but i never took the biggest interest in them, it isnt that i hate them, its just i never bothered
Actually, it was only continental airline's fault in the concorde crash. the dc-10 that belonged to continental had a titanium alloy fall off the thrust reverse of the plane, that they had added on.
its such a beautiful airliner, i remember hearing those engines miles away, i live in the path of most airplane routes and remember knowing as a kid that it was a DC-10 just from the sound of it, thanks for posting that vid.
The DC-10 is a decent plane, but it is lacking two things, the beautiful growl of the rolls royce rb-211's and it has very little of the grace that the L-1011 is famous for.
True that, I can remember back in high school, our library had a book about the DC-10 that had a picture of a coffin with wings and the straight through tail of a DC-10. It was amusing lol
Yeah, planes that have doors blow off for no reason should not be airworthy. If a car had it's doors randomly fall off driving down the road, it would be recalled immediately. But noooooope apparently the FAA in the 1970's had no qualms about the DC-10 falling apart in mid-air. It should have been called the Douglass Comet.
You apparently do not know the facts behind the cargo door failures. It was not for no reason. The idiot that closed the doors in the Turkish crash didn't follow procedures that were passed to the airline in question. In the American crash, again procedures not followed, this time mechanics were changing engines using a fork lift.
Yeah the DC10 had one problem but then it was fixed and now the DC10 is a reliable trustworthy plane. The DC10 has a good safety record now. The DC10 is love by all maintenance workers because its very rare that one has to be fixed and when theres a problem, its always easy to fix.
Ups does not have dc10s or now md10s
md11pilot11 1 month ago
Thank you very much for sharing! When was this video made?? And is this plane still in operation?? Thank you!
5012810 3 months ago
Thats is class.
ClareAer 4 months ago
Awesome.
Wonder how many feet that was.
shivan1999jaguarz236 5 months ago
@MrAviator96 Many dozens of the DC-10s built were converted to cargo for one company or another, mostly for FedEx, who appreciated the -10 model for domestic U.S. freight. There may not have been enough -15s built to bother with the sub-type in maintenance, etc., but I wasn't referring to doing this now so much as 10, 15 years ago when the freighter conversions were happening in large quantities. The -15s were broken up many years ago already, yet some much older ones live on.
MustangFanNC 6 months ago
@MustangFanNC UPS uses them too. I have seen them fly out of DFW
bricub72 2 months ago
I take it this was the aircraft's retirement flight? Or was this the lucky one that found a new owner?
bmused55 6 months ago
@bmused55 Found a new home in South Africa. Not sure if they are still flying though!
GRIMMBLINGIBBON 5 months ago
@MrAviator96 I know. They were also produced for Mexicana as well. Most seem to have ended up with Sun Country, but from what I can tell most all of them were scrapped. I don't know why this would be on such late build aircraft. Seems they would have made great cargo haulers?
MustangFanNC 6 months ago
That was sweet.
pradzee123 6 months ago
to low pull up ! to low pull up !
marcoroad 6 months ago
Very cool ! Thanks for posting this.
pabsan07 6 months ago
@XXXGhostGrenadeXXX This is not a DC-10-15 but a DC-10-10. The series 30s were not newer, in fact they were offered to airlines almost from the beginning. They don't carry more passengers either, in fact the extra gear leg was to compensate for added weight of the -30 intercontinental version. The -15 was newer, with higher rated engines, but sold in very small numbers to Mexican airlines. The engines on a -10 are CF6-6Ds, not 50Cs, or 50C2s, etc.
MustangFanNC 6 months ago
DC 10 beautiful aircraft but bad track record!
Kennyboy1 8 months ago
First flight after storage and subsequent restoration?! You'd think a guy would play it safer than a gear-up flyby at 50 feet!
iwannaplaycs 10 months ago
no music next time, please :)
britoca 11 months ago
You guys think hes watching the radar alt and the VSI or just using visual cues to keep it that level?May sound like a dumb question but i'm a wannabe pilot.
motokid032 11 months ago
@motokid032 Well it's a radio altimeter not a radar altimeter, at that level he'd be watching the Rad Alt. There'd be no point in watching the VSI at that level. I would guess he's using instinct for 75% of the manoeuvre and his Rad Alt and EADI for the other 25%
TalkToTheBody 7 months ago
@TalkToTheBody
I see, I have always seen it referred to as "Radar Altitude"..Thanks for the reply.
motokid032 7 months ago
@motokid032 Your welcome, oh and it is either a stand alone analogue instrument or it's readout is integrated in the EADI, either way it only reads altitudes below 2,500ft on commercial aircraft (military Rad Alts tend to read alts below 5,000ft). The system basically works on the doppler effect.
TalkToTheBody 7 months ago
Dc-10 is old we all know that. I will Fly the newest one the A-380 now that something to wow about.
volure1 11 months ago
The DC-10 is not a very reliable aircraft. It has a horrible crash record. Boeing has had crashes but not near as many as Douglas has. The 747 is a much better aircraft than this!!!
brendon1998 1 year ago
@leguandennis No winglets no center gear.
Believe me its a DC10-10.
GRIMMBLINGIBBON 1 year ago
@GRIMMBLINGIBBON ah yeah you are right. Sorry :-)
leguandennis 1 year ago
@plasticspastic201 listen you little bitch, go spam someone else's channel. you obvious don't have anything better to do. you crack head.
doushiyou12 1 year ago 6
the dc-10 is not a bad aircraft guys, most of the crashes were human error
iAirsoft69 1 year ago 3
Most of us would ride on top of this airplane just to get the hell home.
michael0362 1 year ago
What kind of plane was that at 1:10? The red one
12345Critic 1 year ago
@12345Critic It's a Hawker Siddeley Gnat in the colours of the Royal Air Force 'Red Arrows' display team. The Gnat was a trainer, originally designed and built by Folland before they were bought by Hawker Siddeley, and the type served with the Royal Air Force, Finnish Air Force and Indian Air Force.
lioii 1 year ago
did it i never know that? i know that the dc 10 and 9 did crashed a few times
TheMattyboy20 1 year ago
i bet the GPWS was screaming ::whoop whoop terrain terrain pull pull ::
doushiyou12 1 year ago
@doushiyou12 I bet the the guy in shitter was saying the same thing
BoostedXR6T 1 year ago
Great footage of a fantastic aircraft.
akie64 1 year ago
now thats a LOW flyby.
PaganEgyptian 1 year ago
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shallowsouthernman 1 year ago
fantastic!!!!!!
zfreak90 1 year ago
CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
olmaBLN 1 year ago
Nice video!
CorsairPacific 1 year ago
is there a song name?
Great Video !!!
vwsambabus 1 year ago
I just would not fly on a DC-10 as they look scary!
hearts76100 1 year ago
@hearts76100 Well that's a logical reason.
jonathanknight89 1 year ago
To all those who dont like the music try the following version rather than adding offensive comments!
youtube.com/watch?v=V21GOC4Yvl8
GRIMMBLINGIBBON 1 year ago 17
@GRIMMBLINGIBBON
I love the music. Don't change a thing, and don't let the negative comments get you down!
concord977 1 year ago
@GRIMMBLINGIBBON Music is good!!!
shallowsouthernman 1 year ago
Nice vid
Buccaneers2b 1 year ago
flew on b-cal dc10 to crete in 1993
tetramoo 1 year ago
Went Caribbean Airways Gatwick / Barbados 1987 on a hired Air Ghana DC10. Air turbulance? You bet. The damn thing was flapping its wings. One of the best flights I ever did.
trainmanbob 1 year ago
wow, im amazed that it stayed in the air, it looked so slow :P
snelpiller 1 year ago
o.o
Curtiss 1 year ago
i just plain dont like this plane, #1 because the engine came off right after takeoff on an american air plane cuasing no survivors
johnmunoz18 1 year ago
@cool2040coasters it was a md-11
johnmunoz18 1 year ago
Cool! Thanks for sharing.
iloveyourstory 1 year ago
dc 9,HAHAHAHAH...Even my grandmother knows that is a DC 10....
opal8tor 1 year ago
The DC10 is one of my favorite jet aircraft because of the unique dihedral on the horizontal stabilizer.
PaperModelPlaneLover 1 year ago
DC-10 Rear nacelle made it look Star War-ish to me...love this air liner
erh7771 1 year ago
One of the nicest flights I was ever on was on a DC-10.
rpwVideoInstruction 1 year ago
So much for Balanced Field Length!
TOCOMPLICATED 1 year ago
I wonder how many CBs he had to pull so he didn't go deaf during that flyby.
billandersonful 1 year ago
Nice flyby
XCougar85X 1 year ago
Shit! Nice flying, that would be very "Low and Slow"
childsca 1 year ago
Red arrow :)
UncreatedCow 1 year ago
Largest and best plane I've ever been on.. Yeee haw!
AnalgesicBalm 1 year ago
safe, but it lacks fuel efficiency to keep up with modern airliners
Pilot853 1 year ago 2
DC-10 = very safe. A lot of its disasters were cause by the maintenance department. The MD-11 will always be my favorite though.
BusterBunker 1 year ago
as stated, poor cost cutting tactics were a major cause in accidents. The KC-10 has a very safe history, same aircraft, just better maintence.
smokingws6 1 year ago
kelowna flight craft uses them still here makes me so happy to see it land over me
bleedadream777 1 year ago
shame kemble dont use some of there stored aircraft like the 747's ect in the kemble airday :)
that'll be awesome
BIASpotter 1 year ago
You have no idea what you are talking about. The DC-10 was very safe, it was the stupid idiots who took short cuts in the maintainance of them that caused the problems.
Freddy Laker told the US/FAA what the problem was but they wanted to put him out of business, and they did. I flew Laker Airways from Toronto to Manchester and return and felt much safer in those than the POS 747 I flew in from London to NYC.
jconnor55 1 year ago 2
YOU, have NO idea on what your talking about the dc-10 had faulty wiring cousing many in flight fires like the swiss airways accident thats why they made the MD-11
johnmunoz18 1 year ago
The Swiss air jet that came down off Canada was an MD-11........wasnt it?
garyj79 1 year ago 3
it was an md-11 swiss that crashed because of the wiring. i believe it was becouse of these new in-flight entertainment screens
kyotoair 1 year ago
@kyotoair
I seem to remember extra wiring over heating , starting a fire...
00Billy 1 year ago
@00Billy just as i said. the extra wiring that came from the on-board entertainment screens.
kyotoair 1 year ago
@johnmunoz18 The faulty wiring fire happened in an MD11 and was due to the installation of untested inflight entertainment system with no cooling system installed by Swissair. There haven't been any incidents of this happening to dc10s and it only happened to the MD11 only once(ie. the Swissair incident). This incident could probably have happened to any plane because most of them had the metalised PET insulate which was later proven flammable.
mackat4ck 1 year ago
@mackat4ck thanks for the info
johnmunoz18 1 year ago
@johnmunoz18 You're welcome
mackat4ck 1 year ago
@mackat4ck Yeah. It's sad these faults are discovered, and fixed because of the deaths of people.
Guydabest 1 year ago
@Guydabest Aviation rules and regulations are written in blood...
mackat4ck 1 year ago
@mackat4ck So are the rules of the road my friend, so are the rules of the road
katana1150 1 year ago
@katana1150 true, very true!
mackat4ck 1 year ago
@katana1150 only difference is that everyone seems to ignore the rules of the road
mackat4ck 1 year ago
Here's a cool story for the DC-10 aircraft appreciators. In October of 1990 my college room mate's father flew me to Dallas to drive a car from Fort Worth, TX, to Swansea, MA. At the time I was very overweight and was around 350lbs., being too embarrassed to ask for an extension, I just hid the seat belt between both hands in-front of me. When this Northwest Airlines' DC-10 took off, the gravity force pushed me back in my seat with such force I had plenty of room to buckle my seatbelt.
theoldsmuggler1 2 years ago 2
niiiiiiceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.....
superfestiva 2 years ago
we see again the constant myth that the 10 was unsafe , the majority of accidents was due to poor maintainance techniques and miss handling ,yes the cargo door had a design fault but was repaired early on , this aircraft is now the mainstay of the USAF tanker fleet .
shoerd43 2 years ago 2
@shoerd43 Unsafe at any speed. Basically due to a fundamental flaw in the redundancy schematics.
sketchmeister 1 year ago
wooooooooooooooooow,nice.
TheFP1 2 years ago
went on one of the 3 mytravel dc10/10 back in 2001 gatwick to gran canaria
this is either
G-DPSP
G-TDTW
G-TAOS
SuperMole666 2 years ago
Love it. My father-in-law was an airline mechanic. Also, what is the name of the music?
59cadilover 2 years ago
damn that pilot showed some balls on that pass!! figuratively that is
nicklking 2 years ago
nice DC-10,... but an L-1011 Tristar is the winner (expecially if you wanna be alive) :D
IMediaCorp 2 years ago
heck yeah man! The Tristar is much more smooth of an aircraft
astronoman11 2 years ago 17
@astronoman11 Very bad service record though.
iscay666 1 year ago
imedia corp is right. dc10 is a dangerous aircraft when it came out
johngettershow 2 years ago 8
@johngettershow yes, you are right. Its dangerous aircraft due to error and flaw design.
strassj 1 year ago
It might have had some design flaws, but once they were worked out, it is a very safe aircraft and a work horse. I like it's younger brother better though, the Md-11. Md-11 is my favorite.
BusterBunker 2 years ago
that little red plane..
red arrows?
motox13 2 years ago
yes at 1.11 its a red arrow but the original Gnat aircraft not a hawk....
Jetstarboy 2 years ago
It's actually not. L1011's had Engine 2 molded into the tail of the plane. Easiest to tell the difference by the Engine under the tail. Furthermore, the diff between the DC10 and MD11 is easiest told by whether or not there are winglets.
foxtrot789 2 years ago 3
oh ok
Alejandro9394 2 years ago
DC10 looks sexy as hell, but I cant help but think about American Airlines 191... that just sounds like such a nightmare
Wh0rse 2 years ago 2
I wonder if this plane had a double bird strike that it can land back with only it's tail engine?
vipleather 2 years ago
A plane can fly and land with no engines lol...Without an engine the plane is a glider. Obviously you need to make an emergency landing, but a plane can fly with no engines.
Nastpeh 2 years ago
Obviously you did not understand my question. With 2 engines out can it make it back to the airport with only the tail engine running.?
vipleather 2 years ago
It would have to find the nearest airport to land. It would provide thrust, but not alot.
Nastpeh 2 years ago
I love DC-10....
They're just so good looking!
too bad they're retired now :(
TheFlightFreak 2 years ago 2
some hardcore condensation at the end
SettingTheStandards 2 years ago 2
Great video...Wish I had been at Kemble to see that! 5*
SkyJet747 2 years ago 2
hopefully there will be redemption for the DC-10. They say old things become style again. Just look at hairdues and the new mustangs.
pjtc85 2 years ago
Excellent video .more soon please
klefive 2 years ago
shit..i miss the DC-10...the most awesome plane ever....:D
pereo145 2 years ago 3
That is super friggin awesome!!! what a babe of a plane, so majestic! High 5
choffle33 2 years ago
Isn´t Dc-10 Is a MD-11 no? -.-
AloFsx 2 years ago
wtf, you can clearly see that it has no wingtips, and an md-11 has them;)
drummingpilot 2 years ago 2
people just aint got a clue have they lol
tonightwefly 2 years ago
I´s DC-10
Pvjinflight 2 years ago
It's DC10; for recognize immediately watch if has wing tips, if yes is MD11...
CUCCIOCUCCIO 2 years ago 2
No, MD-11 has a center gear and winglets. DC-10 and MD-10 are the same airframe but MD has updated electronics.
boxman83 2 years ago
AND its the wrong airline if its a MD-10, which it isn't. Although the tails would be the same colour.
FullMetalJackSquat 2 years ago
dc10-30 had centre gear but no winglets.
fuzzdmedic 2 years ago
Never seen a DC-10 kicked around like at or in a low pass. Pretty cool!
twal1011 2 years ago
tri motor power!!
deltamike33 2 years ago
In the DC-10 and MD-11 you could keep the middle gear up if you had less gross weight than required. Most pilot do it to keep the upkeep on the middle gear low.
FlyingTheBestBoeing 2 years ago
The pilot has no choice in the matter. it's either gear up or gear down. The center gear can, however, be dispatched in the up and locked postion per the MEL. You suffer a weight penalty for doing so.
ProGun1 2 years ago
what is that lil red plane at 1:10 anybody know?
VeeTwelve 2 years ago
It's a Folland gnat, the red arrows used them before they switched to the BAE Hawks.
buidseach 2 years ago
Looks like a former FedEX freighter. And to the poster about this being a "hybrid" without the extra set of landing gear, only the DC10-30, and (I think) the MD11 have the extra set of aft landing gear, all other models only had 2 back there.
troy12n 2 years ago
This has been flagged as spam show
actually fellas this is a dc-9. the dc-10 has an extra set of wheels in the middle under the belly.
32574 2 years ago
Dc 9 is a twin engine T tail aircraft!
This is a DC10-10 ex Mytravel!
GRIMMBLINGIBBON 2 years ago 6
dumb shit its a DC 10
HokieFanatic1 2 years ago
This is indeed a DC10, it's just a Hybrid model without the center main landing gear. Do you have any idea the difference between the DC-10 and the DC-9?. It is huge!!
amxcrew 2 years ago
Someone needs to study more about the McDonell Douglas family...
SodiumHydrocxide 2 years ago
@32574 Please refer to your local airplane encyclopedia. You will understand that this is NOT a DC-9.. They're worlds apart. I don't know where you get your information from but you are sadly mistaken. Do a search on Airliners . Net, scroll down the long list and you will see that the DC-9 is TOTALLY different.
DimSum9685 1 year ago
@32574 DC-9 is a smaller MD80
yoyoyoyoshua 1 year ago
my favourite plane.
yetiflicker 2 years ago 2
I saw this plane at Kemble, there was also another identical one with it.They were stored on the airfield for nearly 2 years until a south african airline brought both for £1.5 million . they were made in 1976
WILKO50 2 years ago
beautifull lady!
XOROHN 2 years ago
DC-10 definatly has a bad rap, when they were first introduced, a problem with the lock on the cargo door almost caused a crash, and the NTSB advised Douglas to make the lock better, but they didn't to save costs, and another on crashed, killing around 200 people.
cowsrock94 2 years ago
man i love the sosund of airplanes
smarr881 2 years ago
This plane got a bad rap by the FAA. it was a ploy to put Freddy Laker out of business. I flew on a Laker Airways (SkyTrain) DC-10 back in 1978 and it was a much smoother ride than the 747 we flew on in '79.
jconnor55 2 years ago
i love DC-10
smokinqaces 2 years ago 8
is that a 15 or 30 looks more like a 15 smaller chassis :D
GhostMjr 2 years ago
GhostMjr, I believe it is either a Dash 10 or perhaps a Dash 15.
No center gear so definitely not a Dash 30.
On my monitor the video is not clear enough to determine if there is a pallet door for the foward cargo.
Special off subject note to my Russian aircraft supporter "friends" out there....even an old airliner like this puts out LESS smoke than a MiG 29 fly-by !!!! Lol!
rampking1 2 years ago
Lol thts true. Still, this is even less than a su35... how sad, it gives away its position in a time of combat :p
FlightSimulatorXATC 2 years ago
ROFL that is true.
Koss42 2 years ago
Beautiful bird!!!!
LawrenceErnie 2 years ago 2
hermoso avion, yo lo uso con fs2004
erayalcor 2 years ago
beautifull plane
larsstolwijk 2 years ago 2
I wished that Qantas had owned and operated the DC10
sideslide23 2 years ago 3
Man! I miss those planes! Back in 1998, I flew on a BA DC-10 from Abidjan to London Gatwick. At the time, I had no idea that was the last opportunity I would have to fly on the wonderful tri-jet from Longbeach. The DC-10 was and is a fantastic airplane!
CTBLM 2 years ago 4
yeah it had a bad history but it was just one of them planes like the tristar 727 and so on we jus got flying computers now.
Iamfukenripped 2 years ago
is this kemble glouscertershire i live basically next to it
channerty 2 years ago
i live near as well
nbciren 2 years ago
Alittle known fact.....Susan Boyle is rated to pilot the DC-10.
soconnor889 2 years ago
oh i thought she only had a rating on the tristar...wasnt she a pilot for british caledonian?
greenbot 2 years ago
well played!
soconnor889 2 years ago
Really, is that true?
How do you know that?
mackat4ck 2 years ago
sorry, I was just trying out that new thing called sarcasm,LOL.
soconnor889 2 years ago
Ah..the DC10, the plane that just keeps on giving!.... giving a lot of hell.
rustygates 2 years ago
the dc10, definitely one of my favorite planes, im no aviation enthusiast, im a car enthusiast, but i still have that love for all sorts of vehicles... except trains..
FPVsean 2 years ago 2
Well said!
JflyG 2 years ago
FPVsean OMG ! You dont love trains ? How come ? I spent my entire life in the cab running freight trains. They have a flavor of their own and music too.
chakdeychar 2 years ago
trains were never a field i specified in, sure, the french tgv and high speed trains are cool, but i never took the biggest interest in them, it isnt that i hate them, its just i never bothered
FPVsean 2 years ago
wow those DC-10 dont had any other main gear at the center?
hash2all 2 years ago
this is the piece of junk that causes the Concorde to crash, to bad it was air france..:)
UkWide774 2 years ago
Actually, it was only continental airline's fault in the concorde crash. the dc-10 that belonged to continental had a titanium alloy fall off the thrust reverse of the plane, that they had added on.
nanomusic 2 years ago 2
same plane as used In Ultimate Force that
17sqnpro 2 years ago
gees, i have a flight simulator on my pc and that low,the alarms are very noisy and activated and will panic and i will crash
astigitara 2 years ago
i didnt no they go go so low and slow for da size
szdude8 2 years ago
With an empty payload and minimal fuel and max flaps, big jets can fly really slow.
ZX338A 2 years ago
Now that was spectacular, and just great to see this type of fly by of the DC 10!!! Thanks for posting this.
sittinsidewayzz 2 years ago
its such a beautiful airliner, i remember hearing those engines miles away, i live in the path of most airplane routes and remember knowing as a kid that it was a DC-10 just from the sound of it, thanks for posting that vid.
rafaelmc76 2 years ago 4
This Flyby is so amazing !!!
Nice 5/5
fernousdu972 2 years ago
Beautiful!
STRINGER51 2 years ago 2
my fav civil brid...and thast saying soemthing since a combat p lane fan
phonix032 2 years ago
The DC-10 is a decent plane, but it is lacking two things, the beautiful growl of the rolls royce rb-211's and it has very little of the grace that the L-1011 is famous for.
subiedriver1990 3 years ago
And a good safety record.
AdamJLemon 2 years ago
True that, I can remember back in high school, our library had a book about the DC-10 that had a picture of a coffin with wings and the straight through tail of a DC-10. It was amusing lol
subiedriver1990 2 years ago
Yeah, planes that have doors blow off for no reason should not be airworthy. If a car had it's doors randomly fall off driving down the road, it would be recalled immediately. But noooooope apparently the FAA in the 1970's had no qualms about the DC-10 falling apart in mid-air. It should have been called the Douglass Comet.
AdamJLemon 2 years ago
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steinfiller 2 years ago
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Reply to AdamJLemon:
You apparently do not know the facts behind the cargo door failures. It was not for no reason. The idiot that closed the doors in the Turkish crash didn't follow procedures that were passed to the airline in question. In the American crash, again procedures not followed, this time mechanics were changing engines using a fork lift.
steinfiller 2 years ago
Yeah the DC10 had one problem but then it was fixed and now the DC10 is a reliable trustworthy plane. The DC10 has a good safety record now. The DC10 is love by all maintenance workers because its very rare that one has to be fixed and when theres a problem, its always easy to fix.
DC10Ben 2 years ago