The McDonnell Douglas DC-10 is an American trijet wide-body aircraft manufactured by McDonnell Douglas. The DC-10 was intended to succeed the DC-8 for long-range flights. It first flew on August 29, 1970; it was introduced on August 5, 1971, by American Airlines.

2021年8月27日 · McDonnell Douglas DC-10 performed its maiden flight on August 29th, 1970. This weekend marks 51 years since the widebody trijet hit the skies for the first time. Let's take a look at the plane's highlights amid this anniversary. The DC-10 was designed and built in Long Beach, California.

2025年1月26日 · The McDonnell Douglas DC-10 is one of the most well-known and loved trijet wide-body aircraft, but now it has all but disappeared from the skies. The DC-10 is sometimes compared with its similar contemporary Lockheed L-1011 …

2024年2月26日 · The DC-10-10 was the first variant produced, with 122 examples built, having the longest length of 55.55 meters. The DC-10-30, with larger fuel tanks and wingspan, had a much longer range of 5,200 NM and became the most popular variant.

2024年2月26日 · The Douglas DC-8, one of the very first jet airliners, helped to pave the way and would be superseded by another very significant model: McDonnell Douglas's DC-10. The DC-10 has over half...

Medium to long range widebody airliner. Designed in response to the same American Airlines requirement as the Lockheed TriStar, the DC-10, despite a sometimes troubled past, was the more successful of the two widebody trijets.

The McDonnell Douglas DC-10 is the first commercial airliner after the merging in 1967 of McDonnell Aircraft Corporation and Douglas Aircraft Company. On August 29 1970, the aircraft took its maiden flight.

2019年5月28日 · After the incident, the NTSB told McDonnell Douglas to implement two changes to the DC-10: First of all, to strengthen the locking mechanism. Secondly, to install a vent at the back of the aircraft.

The McDonnell Douglas DC-10 is a three-engined medium-to-longe range widebody airliner with a capacity of maximum 380 passengers produced by the American manufacturer McDonnell Douglas. The DC-10 was produced as a cargo freight aircraft also.

Douglas’ DC-10 offered the step in capacity (40 First Class + 196 Economy Class seats, plus containerized cargo) between the 727 and 747 that Northwest wanted for routes such as Seattle-Spokane-Minneapolis-Chicago-Atlanta-Miami but also the legs to run Seattle-Tokyo if needed.