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boxkite said:According to Vaclav Němeček in his book “Civilní letadla 2” the drawing gives an impression of a DC-10 variant, but he didn’t mention a D-… number. Is anyone able to supplement the designation?
TinWing said:The original concept looked very much like this one, although the rear engine placement looks a bit "imaginative."
Jemiba said:Nevertheless the position of the third engine looks really weird ! I could
understand, if the fin would be on the center line in front of the engine,
but here it looks exacltly, as the engine is offset to the left...
Jemiba said:But I can't understand, why
the engine was partially buried in the tail, reducing the intake area quite
considerably and not just put atop of the tail, as in the later DC-10.
Douglas US Air Force DC-10 Advanced Airborne Instrumentation System. This configuration was created and marketed to the Japanese as a down range tracking aircraft in the late 1970's.
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Official Original Douglas Aircraft Company Photo
McDonnell Douglas is offering to convert three DC-10-30CFs from World Airways and one DC-10-30F from Korean Air Lines.
The company points out that the KC-10 has proved the concept of the DC-10 as a tanker, and that the RAF would then enjoy some degree of equipment commonality with the US Air Force.
circle-5 said:Factory proposal model of the McDonnell Douglas EC-10, the most popular of several ELINT platform proposals based on the DC-10 Series 10 airframe.
one of my favorite 1970s aircraft, me and my brother used to go to the airport in Mexico City to see it
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To be honest I like it as it turned to be, the L-1011 also was and is one of my favorites but it is nice to see all its potential configurations
I only flew once on it from Mexico city to Tijuana, when I went to visit my family that lives in the USA, it was a nice experience too, it was around 1986, in the 1980s the DC-10 was the most advanced and the biggest jet we had in Mexico, both Mexicana and Aeromexico operated itone of my favorite 1970s aircraft, me and my brother used to go to the airport in Mexico City to see it
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To be honest I like it as it turned to be, the L-1011 also was and is one of my favorites but it is nice to see all its potential configurations
I flew lots times on the UTA ones when was a kid.
Even managed to get one big agency model back then . Alas lost now...
Beautiful plane.