Why don’t we fly DC-10’s anymore?
the Douglas DeCompression-10 was a mistake
ETOPS.
Anything with more than two engines is haram
>>2051321We've become too good at building engines, it would've been cool to see modern trijets, but we're doomed to see twinjets for the rest of time, at least until someone manages to cheat physics/engineering/economics.
>>2051315Death Cruiser 10, followed by More Death II
>>2051317This. As impressive as the death cruisers and tristars were close up in the hangar, or lined up together waiting to go on stand, they were always on a countdown.I suppose they're like looking at photos of those old steam ships that also had full canvas rigging, in a way. Not as obviously technologically transitional, but definitely of a particular timeframe.
>>2051367Love this livery. I think the first flight I took was Airtours Airbus of some type (although the internet doesn't seem to think they had Airbuses in the 90s) to Spain. Think I was 5 or 6.
I wish we had gone with the original Trijet 777 design.
>>2051378They did very late 90s, partly courtesy of spotters sites and also because I started there around 2000 and there were some early msn A320's and 21's there already (looking at some of those registrations is a trip down memory lane) to say nothing of the lower-deck-lav A330s (who were global fleet FH leaders up to TCX going bang; the old girls were still trucking away happily)An anecdote in the spirit of the thread. Pull up a toolbox, lad. The 3 DC10s were all due to go out of service on the same day. One last set of flights, and then adios. BYDA, TDTW (aka Tinky Winky) and DPSP (Dipsy) had other ideas. They effectively downed tools that day. "Get rid of us, will you? Right. Sod you.". All three went tech before their early morning flights, had maintrol and flight ops both tearing their hair out as they tried to sort out the consequences of three sulking widebodies all day, and they didn't move till I saw them taxi out as I pulled out the car park myself to go home late afternoon. Full day of delays. Ouch. Fortunately I don't THINK we had EU261 at the time. Now in fairness, the reliability of those old jets was partly the reason they were getting offloaded, but I did find it darkly amusing they'd gone for collective action.
Is it less fuel efficient?
>>2051326I want to see a unijet with an extra-wide-bypass turbofan the diameter of the fuselage, feeding from ducts to the top/side and discharging from the rear + limited thrust vectoring
>>2051525and I want every plane in passenger service to continue to have minimum two engines.
>>2051314tri engines are dangerous as fuck
>>2051314The youngest one(s) are 36 years old. The company that made them went tits up. There were a couple of high-profile vehicle failures that led to a massive loss of orders and payouts to the estates of lives lost. I'm not even a pilot or aviation enthusiast and I know this. Let someone who can tell you how shitty they were give a more detailed explanation.
>>2051367so many memories of being delayed for hours and hours with these glorious bastards
>>2051525NIMBYs always whine when new aircraft types appear.
>>2051741Would the rotodyne have been successful if it had the main rotor driven by another set of turboshafts instead of tip jets?
>>2051801Probably not because someone from Lockheed would have bribed people to buy their sh1t instead.
>>2051741I like this thing because it looks so spiteful towards nature and the laws of physics. It's lifting straight up with that rotor because fuck gravity and fuck being a plane, and it's going straight forwards with those propellers because fuck being a helicopter.
>>2051525ducts won't do on a modern high bypass engine, it needs that big cavernous intake to have efficiency
>>2051895file fell off
>>2051314You only need two engines to fly over the ocean now.(Despite the early problems, the DC-10 is rock solid. They're still flying for FedEx.)
>>2052023Inverted occasionally with a madman loose in the cockpit.Take care airplane dudes.
>>2051314no concordes left to kill
>>2051314Humans cannot compete with AI when it comes to engine placement design. You only need 1 engine.
>>2051326you one need 1 engine
>>2052023FDX retired their DC-10 fleet (converted to MD-10s) in December 2022
>>2052220Nyet, comrade. More engines better.
