DC-10 with RB. 211 Engines

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The RB. 211 was considered for the DC-10 during the development process, but McDonnell Douglas selected the General Electric CF6. Some later variants were equipped with the Pratt & Whitney JT9D, and there were plans in for an RB. 211 equipped DC-10-50 in the mid-1970s for sale to British Airways. Does anyone have any information on DC-10 designs with RB. 211 engines, or the DC-10 engine selection process?
 
For the politics: The Sporty Game, J. Newhouse, Knopf, 1982, Chapter 8. JT9D soon deleted from both, RB211 in both until 4/68.
 
Hi Delta Force,


here is just a drawings to DC-10 with RB.211.
 

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Mark Nankivil said:
Actually Hesham, those two are for the L-1011.

Enjoy the Day! Mark
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Yes and sorry my dear Mark,


I mixed between them.
 
I recall somewhere along the line reading Freddie Laker's comments on the idea of a RB 211 powered DC-10, and who was going to pay for the development costs. "Not dear Uncle Freddie!", or words pretty much to that effect, were what he had to say on the matter.
 
After 4/68 there was no RR interest in DC10. HMG, proud new owner of RR(1971)Ltd., attended to seeing L1011-1 safely certificated in 1972 with RB211-22B, then in 1977, L1011-200 with RB211-524B04. That was enhanced, 1977 as RB211-524C2, 1982 as RB211-524D4 for 747-200B. Laker took 5 Mitsui Leasing DC-10/10 white tails starting 1972. 5 1979 DC-10/30 were new, but BCal had flown DC-10/30/GE from 1977. MDC had accepted the pain of engine options to win Northwest and JAL (DC-10/40/PW, 1972), but had no desire to compound the felony for dubious dribble UK sales.

Privatised RR plc sold RB211-524L, 12/86 to BCal MD11 and to Air Europe MD11, 2/89. Both Users lapsed, as did RR/MD11.
 
The more I think about it, I was probably mistaken. Perhaps it involved the idea of putting RB 211s on the A300s Laker was purchasing, and the question came up as a sort of "buy British" sort of thing. I'd probably spend hours diving through libraries looking for it...
 
Ah, very likely. Freddie's 9/78 "order" for 10 A300B was a fun thing. The type and indeed AI as an entity were in dire poo - long drought in orders, yet UK Govt. chose to buy back in (having cashed out, 4/69). France insisted on a BA order before readmitting perfidious Rosbifs. That became Freddie and UK bought back in, 24/10/78. There was a mini-flurry of vague talk of an RB211 option. RR was not enthusiastic, pre-occupied with its decades-long ambition to be Boeing baseline (achieved 23/3/79: RB211-535C/757), and France was very positively not interested in diluting SNECMA's sales on its share of all CF6s.
 

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