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.

The DC-10-30 is a variant of the twin-aisle airliner DC-10 manufactured by McDonnell Douglas. With a range of 5,200 nautical miles, the DC-10-30 is a long-range type and the most frequent version produced.

2024年2月26日 · McDonnell Douglas then issued variants on the DC-10 that could go the distance. The DC-10-10 model was followed by the DC-10-30 and DC-10-40 models, both of which had dramatically improved...

preliminary weight and performance calculations for the McDonnel Douglas DC-10-30 wide-body jet airliner

DC-10-30ER (extended range) - 6 units built and 5 units of the DC-30-30 converted. DC-10-30AF (freight version) - 10 units built. In take-off or landing the DC-10-30 can have center main landing gear either extended or retracted.

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.

2014年2月19日 · Douglas had originally planned on having three models of the DC-10; the DC-10-10, 10-20, and the 10-30. The base model (the 10-10) was a transcontinental aircraft, and was not optimized for intercontinental routes.

The DC-10-30ER is an American wide-body airliner built by McDonnell Douglas and an extended range version of the -30 with a higher maximum takeoff weight and powerful turbofan engines.

On November 12, 1975, an Overseas National Airways, Inc. (ONA), McDonnell-Douglas DC-10-30 operating as Flight 032, crashed while attempting to take-off from runway 13R at the John F. Kennedy International Airport, Jamaica, New York.

The Douglas DC-10 is a three engines wide body jet airliner. It has the capability for medium to long haul flights and could carry a maximum of 380 passengers in a 1 class configuration. In 1989 the DC-10 production line finally ended with 386 deliveries. 60 of which where delivered to the United States Air Force (USAF) as air to air refuelling ...