| ▲ | gmac 21 hours ago | |||||||
e.g. https://mondortiz.com/the-problematic-cargo-door-of-the-doug... | ||||||||
| ▲ | dingaling 21 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||
The DC-10 was a rushed programme to avoid Douglas being frozen out of the 1970s widebody market by Lockheed and Boeing. Similarly, the MD-11 was a cost-restricted update of the airframe to avoid McD being frozen out of the 1990s widebody market by Airbus and Boeing. McD management wouldn't fund the more ambitious four-engined MD-12, so the trijet's fuselage was stretched and aerodynamic tweaks applied. The MD-11 never met its performance targets and heralded the end of the Douglas commercial line. It was fairly quickly relegated from pax to cargo service where it has a good payload but little else to commend it. | ||||||||
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| ▲ | hshdhdhehd 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||
The company now known as Boeing hoodwinking the FAA back then. | ||||||||
| ▲ | hollow-moe 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||
The article has several words highlighted to be links leading to random pages ? | ||||||||