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Local DC-10 Ruins Everything

Anonymous Sat 02 Oct 2021 04:23:02 No.1715219 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>1715378 >>1715752 >>1715989 >>1717469

Has any commercial plane done more damage to technological innovation than the DC-10?
It ruined trijets for everyone. It killed the Concorde. It even took down the L1011 before it shit itself catastrophically.
We could have had it all...

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 02 Oct 2021 04:30:10 No.1715220 Report

Quoted By: >>1715658

If this sack of shit never existed, we'd probably have a colony on Mars by now.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Oct 2021 04:32:19 No.1715221 Report

Quoted By: >>1715224

This thread gets droll after seeing it the nth time

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 02 Oct 2021 04:35:33 No.1715222 Report

Quoted By: >>1715308 >>1715393

We could still be crossing the Atlantic in this beauty if the bastard DC-10 didn't starve the competition with its worthless existence.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Oct 2021 04:38:32 No.1715224 Report

Quoted By: >>1716781

>>1715221
You know what else gets droll? All the bullshit that the DC-10 caused.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Oct 2021 10:43:22 No.1715308 Report

Quoted By:

>>1715222
I miss the old BA livery

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Oct 2021 11:32:24 No.1715325 Report

Quoted By: >>1715334 >>1715410

You tell me, fill me in, why are the DC-10s so bad? I want to hear you out.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 02 Oct 2021 11:50:33 No.1715333 Report

Quoted By:

United Airlines Flight 232
>tfw the third engine is perfectly placed to ruin your day

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Oct 2021 11:55:28 No.1715334 Report

Quoted By: >>1715410 >>1716014

>>1715325
horrible design problems, it crashed so many times because of retarded decisions like "cargo door opens outwards and it's easy to fail to lock it correctly"

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 02 Oct 2021 15:19:49 No.1715378 Report

Quoted By:

>>1715219

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Oct 2021 16:30:56 No.1715393 Report

Quoted By:

>>1715222
>kills the Concorde
>kills Lockheed passenger planes
>tfw the DC-10 single-handedly put us into the bad aviation timeline

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Oct 2021 16:45:43 No.1715397 Report

Quoted By: >>1715408

What was the point of adding the third engine. Could it mean the plane could carry more passengers?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Oct 2021 17:43:33 No.1715408 Report

Quoted By:

>>1715397
ETOPS rules meant that you needed a plane with at least 3 engines on transoceanic routes

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Oct 2021 17:55:43 No.1715410 Report

Quoted By:

>>1715325
>>1715334
Also such hits as "randomly sheds pieces of metal during takeoff, causing the Concorde taking off next to burst into flames and kill everyone" and "the fucking engine rips itself off the wing"

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 03 Oct 2021 02:10:40 No.1715603 Report

Quoted By: >>1715755

do aircraft engines have a Spall liner ?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 03 Oct 2021 04:51:51 No.1715658 Report

Quoted By: >>1715809

>>1715220
Why does it have an indent?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 03 Oct 2021 11:06:21 No.1715747 Report

Quoted By: >>1716014

Isn't also tricky to land in winds. Seems like there is been a few cargo crashes where it flipped over while landing in high winds

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 03 Oct 2021 11:14:00 No.1715752 Report

Quoted By:

>>1715219
>scrapped in ‘02
At least the Concorde got the last laugh

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 03 Oct 2021 11:24:45 No.1715755 Report

Quoted By:

>>1715603
No because they are not expected to survive impacts from the exterior. The fan ducting on a modern jet engine is designed to contain the blades in the event of catastrophic failure.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 03 Oct 2021 16:14:51 No.1715809 Report

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>>1715658
It's a missle defense test platform

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 04 Oct 2021 04:24:52 No.1715989 Report

Quoted By: >>1716014 >>1716443

>>1715219
failures like the DC-10 push things forward, they create innovation.

mediocre trash like the 737 are just good enough that they keep going and never really innovate. The same garbage just keeps getting churned out again and again.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 04 Oct 2021 06:16:52 No.1716014 Report

Quoted By:

>>1715989
>>1715747
>>1715334

Do you or anyone else have any good books to recommend reading about the DC-10?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 05 Oct 2021 11:58:42 No.1716443 Report

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>>1715989
You could say that about the toulouse Mercure with a computer for a pilot. Ditto for the rehash/

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 06 Oct 2021 08:07:31 No.1716767 Report

Quoted By: >>1717408 >>1717547 >>1717861

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 Oct 2021 09:38:26 No.1716781 Report

Quoted By: >>1716848

>>1715224
Might want to look up the definition of droll, bud

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 Oct 2021 14:42:16 No.1716848 Report

Quoted By:

>>1716781
I'm good, fag

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 07 Oct 2021 20:36:27 No.1717408 Report

Quoted By: >>1717418

>>1716767
>not my problem

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 07 Oct 2021 21:31:00 No.1717418 Report

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>>1717408
Honestly that incident was just cosmically bad luck, but what the hell. If the DC-10 didn't have the cargo door problems everything would probably be fine, and they might still be doing transocean flights.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 08 Oct 2021 00:44:18 No.1717469 Report

Quoted By: >>1717550 >>1717649

>>1715219
You know what? Also fuck ETOPS for letting twinjets cross the Atlantic. The noted and scientifically proven faggot Lyn Helms gave in and made going from the US to Europe feel like Atlanta to Chicago but with another aisle.
Flying is so fucking boring now. Every plane is a twinjet that may or may not have a very slightly different nose.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 08 Oct 2021 06:10:41 No.1717547 Report

Quoted By:

>>1716767
You couldn't get one with the Continental? For better accuracy

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 08 Oct 2021 06:21:45 No.1717550 Report

Quoted By: >>1717563

>>1717469
>Also fuck ETOPS for letting twinjets cross the Atlantic

the Atlantic???? lol. Quantas just flew a 787-8 from Buenos Aires to Darwin, 9333 miles over Antarctica.

As much as I miss 747s over the Pacific, the 777-300ERs that all the asia-pacific carriers favor are /really much nicer/ inside.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 08 Oct 2021 07:30:55 No.1717563 Report

Quoted By: >>1717771

>>1717550
Nothing is nicer than the upper deck of a 747.

I've flown 747s twice. Once upper deck and once in the very front. The upper deck is just better. You and 21 other passengers and 2 stewardesses. Giant pod chairs. Less noise from the engines and the unwashed masses. The toilet was always available. Space to stretch h out and then some.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 08 Oct 2021 11:39:19 No.1717649 Report

Quoted By: >>1717699 >>1717726

>>1717469
>but with another aisle
Not even a guarantee. JetBlue flies a fucking a321 JFK-LHR.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 08 Oct 2021 14:00:54 No.1717699 Report

Quoted By:

>>1717649
gross

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 08 Oct 2021 15:02:46 No.1717726 Report

Quoted By: >>1717729 >>1717761

>>1717649
>8+ hours on a single-aisle plane

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 08 Oct 2021 15:14:51 No.1717729 Report

Quoted By: >>1717733 >>1717735

>>1717726
That route is about 5.5 hours, tho.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 08 Oct 2021 15:29:56 No.1717733 Report

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>>1717729
JFK-LHR can be that fast, but often isn't. Going back the other direction is slower.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 08 Oct 2021 15:32:56 No.1717735 Report

Quoted By: >>1717738

>>1717729
Looks like westwards it's 8:33 hrs

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 08 Oct 2021 15:35:45 No.1717738 Report

Quoted By: >>1717739 >>1717914

>>1717735
Huh, that's odd. ORD-DUB is only 6.5 hours, I would think being closer would be faster

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 08 Oct 2021 15:38:05 No.1717739 Report

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>>1717738
It's always slower going westward.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 08 Oct 2021 16:33:53 No.1717761 Report

Quoted By:

>>1717726
>Sadly, the 7x7 became…
Welcome to the future.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 08 Oct 2021 16:48:07 No.1717771 Report

Quoted By: >>1717800

>>1717563
>Giant pod chairs

what airline/year? I flew 747 upper deck on united in 2017, and it was just normal business class seats on the upper deck, honestly kind of claustrophobic with the deep curve to the walls and low ceiling. Felt old and dingy (although that's partly United's fault for not doing better maintenance, but the planes were near retirement, so...) Nowhere near as nice as their newer Polaris business class.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 08 Oct 2021 18:05:35 No.1717800 Report

Quoted By:

>>1717771
Northwest right before the merger from Tokyo.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 08 Oct 2021 21:21:42 No.1717861 Report

Quoted By:

>>1716767
>AHHHHHHHHH THIS CAN’T BE HAPPENING TO ME I’M A SUPERSONIC CHAD NOOOOOOOO

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 09 Oct 2021 00:56:48 No.1717914 Report

Quoted By: >>1717949

>>1717738
I'm seeing ~7:20 for ORD-DUB, against ~7:45 for ORD-LHR and 6:35 for JFK-DUB.
The other way,
~8:40 for DUB-ORD, ~7:45 for DUB-JFK, ~8:00 for LHR-JFK and 9:00 for LHR-ORD.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 09 Oct 2021 02:16:41 No.1717949 Report

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>>1717914
I was just comparing it to the 6.5 hrs I spent on Aer Lingus going to DUB a few years ago. Was still about 7ish coming back with a 90knot tailwind to ORD.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 10 Oct 2021 14:52:01 No.1718448 Report

Quoted By:

Bump. Dc-10 is the curse of ham

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