Another DC10 does a wheelie!

[webmaster]

I think FEDEX was the last DC10 photo I saw do a wheelie, here is another one:

A World Cargo Airline MD-11 jet dropped directly onto the tarmac with its nose in the air at LAX in Los Angeles, Thursday, May 27, 2004. Workers were unloading the plane when it became unbalanced and tipped onto its rear wheels, stranding them for an hour in the nose of the aircraft -- about 40 feet above the ground. Firefighters used a ladder truck to rescue the workers. They weren't hurt. (AP Photo/ Ann Johansson)

This really sucks for the maintenance crew, but I have had the same almost sickening feeling on a P3 when all the pax end up in the back of the plane..... and you have an aft CG thanks to all the parts and crap that maintenance throws on.... :icon_rage

 

[zuggerat]

thats not an MD-11... webmaster is correct... an MD-11's exhaust out put is redirected down through the stab of the vertical stabilizer out through the rear of the fuselage...A DC-10 has the engine literally implanted in the vertical stablizer as shown in the above picture

 

[zuggerat]

yeah your right... sorry... i believe you... i dont keep up with commercial aircraft, ONLY MILITARY!! WOOOO!... thanx for correcting me tho... edit: i just noticed the winglets, so now i know for a fact im wrong, damn it i hate being wrong :ashamed_1 :icon_smil

 

[zuggerat]

Ahh the golden days, I think I've learned the same way, reading random articles, my dad works for the FAA too so he used to take me to the airport all the time and point out what were what.. Apparently he can't distinguish the two either lol.

 

[Flash]

To add fuel to the ID fire, several companies have modified there DC-10's with winglets and newer cockpits. Fedex was doing this to their fleet of DC-10's and calling them MD-10's. World Airways has DC-10's and MD-11's, don't know if they have put winglets on their DC-10's.