The McDonnell Douglas DC-10 and the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar are arguably the best aircraft of the trijet era. While both planes had several differences, what truly set them apart was the configuration ...

In decades gone by, air travel was very exclusive indeed. In the late 1920s and the beginning of the commercial flight boom, two round-trip tickets for a flight across the United States cost as much ...

Some commercial jets receive soaring fanfare when they hang up their wings. Remember all that fuss over the Concorde? Now it’s the McDonnell Douglas DC-10’s turn. But what sort of retirement party ...

Question: Why do you think the early wide-body jets like the DC-10 and L-1011 did not become major factors in airline fleets? — Submitted by reader Bob Hahn, Cocoa Beach, Fla. Answer: Cost and demand ...

To understand modern widebody aircraft design, we need to return to the late 1970s and early 1980s, a period when two aircraft helped shape the trajectory of the long-haul jets we see in the skies ...

At first glance, the McDonnell Douglas MD-11 looks like little more than a stretched and updated version of the McDonnell Douglas DC-10. Both aircraft share the same basic trijet configuration, with ...

Northwest Airlines is accelerating the retirement of its McDonnell Douglas DC-10s under a new fleet reorganisation plan. The final 12 DC-10s will be retired by January, replaced by new Airbus A330s ...

Northwest retired the last of its DC-10 aircraft from scheduled service Jan. 8, ending a 34-year run in which the airline used them to carry more than 125 million passengers, complete more than ...

Four Part Series Examines Design Problems with the DC-10 Airliner. In 1966, American and United Airlines were looking for a wide body airliner able to operate from the shorter runways found in tier ...

A Tragedy and a Miracle - United Airlines Flight 232. The DC-10 had been flying for nearly 2 decades in the summer of 1989 and during that period the most egregious design short comings had been ...