The McDonnell Douglas DC-10 and the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar are arguably the best aircraft of the trijet era. While both planes had several differences, what truly set them apart was the configuration ...

The DC-10 has been flying passengers on commercial flights since 1971, but that run has now come to an end. Biman Bangladesh Airlines had been the world's last passenger airline to use the ...

Some commercial jets receive soaring fanfare when they hang up their wings. Remember all that fuss over the Concorde? Now it’s the McDonnell Douglas DC-10’s turn. But what sort of retirement party ...

Question: Why do you think the early wide-body jets like the DC-10 and L-1011 did not become major factors in airline fleets? — Submitted by reader Bob Hahn, Cocoa Beach, Fla. Answer: Cost and demand ...

The FAA expanded an emergency airworthiness directive (AD), initially for MD-11 and MD-11F aircraft, to now include MD-10 and various DC-10 variants due to structural similarities in their ...

To understand modern widebody aircraft design, we need to return to the late 1970s and early 1980s, a period when two aircraft helped shape the trajectory of the long-haul jets we see in the skies ...

Northwest Airlines is accelerating the retirement of its McDonnell Douglas DC-10s under a new fleet reorganisation plan. The final 12 DC-10s will be retired by January, replaced by new Airbus A330s ...

At first glance, the McDonnell Douglas MD-11 looks like little more than a stretched and updated version of the McDonnell Douglas DC-10. Both aircraft share the same basic trijet configuration, with ...

Four Part Series Examines Design Problems with the DC-10 Airliner. In 1966, American and United Airlines were looking for a wide body airliner able to operate from the shorter runways found in tier ...

DC-10 Supertanker dropping fire retardant as seen from the fire point of view…. KUSI photojournalist Taylor Schuss filmed the DC10 Air Tanker (unofficially dubbed “Supertanker”) fighting the Cocos ...