Originally Posted by
onehundred80
I was in Tool Design, mainly shipping and in plant handling. Some DC-10s could carry a spare engine inboard of one of its engines to ferry it from point A to point B. We always wondered what the passengers thought when they saw it. I did the master for that sometime in 1971 or 1972.
Prior to Douglas as it was when I joined, I worked at DeHavilland Aircraft Canada.
Both these companies have gone. The whole plant of McDonnell, later Boeing has been razed to the ground.
DeHavilland is now Bombardier.
That's awesome, I remember seeing archive footage of a DC-10 with an extra engine inboard...… on the left wing if I remember correctly. Beautiful airplane, cargo doors tarnished their reputation and when it was all fixed revised ETOPS requirements kind of ruined it all. I've always liked the DC-10 over the L10-11, seeing the entire engine at the base of the vertical stabilizer was a better looking setup than the funneled intake on the Tri-Star.
Flew a lot of commercial flights when I was a kid, 12 times back and forth over the pond. I remember one DC-10 we were on specifically, and on our last flight back from Germany we were on a Lufthansa 747-400 from Frankfurt into Logan. I think we were 767 from Logan to Sea-Tac. There's another widebody who's days are numbered as far as passenger transport in concerned..... the 67.
I love hearing about this stuff. Aviation, or just flight in general has always enamored me.
Jared