McDonnell Douglas DC-10 Series 30 Promo Film - 1972
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- Another DC-10 promo, this one features the -30 model. A lot of great, juicy technical info here; more than usual for this kind of film. Sorry for the terrible film quality. Be sure to check my channel for the best in VINTAGE & RARE airliner videos! / classicairlinerfilms
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Definitely an awesome and influential airplane! It has a rough history, but is none-the-less an awesome airplane.
Look at those wide seats in the 2-4-2 configuration. Never flew on one in that era, but I always did like getting the chance to fly on a DC-10. Always Northwest's, both -30 and -40 variants.
Yessir, SAME here!!...
Very interesting promo. It's great to see how things startet off and improved over the decades. Thanks for sharing this! :)
3:21 what brought Turkish Airlines Flight 981 down
7:02 caused Sioux city United Airlines Flight 232 crash landing
Those planes crashed were the first model, the DC10... The DC10-30 was the more approved model
Furthermore, as Seconds From Disaster shouts at you every episode "it is a chain of key events", had United's no.2 engine not got "bam" then the 3 independent systems were fine. There is a reason it is called a black swan event.
Turkish airlines filed down the door latches and had people working on the ground that couldn’t read the proper closing instructions on the plane. They are just as responsible
@@Hertfordshire247 Get some life man....The DC10 proved to be reliable after those SAD events. It served for a long time and way longer than A380..
The FedEx and USA Airforce use is as a tanker, KC10 and till date as an eye hospital.
Appreciate DC10 when he served well to the people and learn how to FORGIVE during her early days.
@@kingssuck06 that’s not why it crashed
Flew from Hawaii to Vancouver in one. Smoothest flight I ever had
THY DC-10 Paris crash 3 March 1974.....
I love these videos.
I know the DC-10s get a lot of bad reputation but I love these. I love 3 engine tri-jets.
Albatrosstic's Gaming The cargo door lock I think was only the design feature that caused a crash and almost caused another. A lot of the other other accidents were the result of pilot/ATC errors or poor maintenance techniques.
I’m more of a fan of 4-engine tri-jets.
It still has a successful career as a cargo plane. The Air Force’s fleet of these planes are still in service as well.
@@johnmpifer You put a smile on my face today...
I love the L-1011, which was an engineer’s airplane. Autopilot so advanced it could land itself. Four independent hydraulic systems that don’t all bleed dry at the same time when penetrated by shrapnel
Thank you for this very valuable information. Now I'm ready to embark on my new career as an airline pilot. ✈️
The cargo door stayed CLOSED on this one
Perfect quality video!
Oscar worthy!
That's a great find! I'm guessing this was aimed at European airlines with the use of metric throughout.
KLM and MartinAir Holland were two of the biggest DC-10-30 users in the Continental Europe. As well Lufthansa, Iberia and Alitalia.
Too bad about those early cargo doors......
+bbfrankie, that could be why they invented duct tape ;-)
bbfrankie I was thinking exactly the same ! Still a great bird all the same!
Very very good!
Very informative.
Frequently featured on Quest channel's "May Day".
Absolutely fantastic!! I’m ready for the systems oral now! 😁
Love it! I remember when Western Airlines (remember them?) used the DC-10-30 for nonstop flights from DEN to LGW.
I remember them ‘the only way to fly’ and every flight was a champagne flight. But didn’t know they flew that route. They also had a hop/skip/jump route: MSP-FSD-PIR-RAP-CPR-SLC-LAX
Yeah, that was Jim Backus (“Thurston Howell III” From Gilligan’s Island) who did the voice of the bird on the back of the plane in the old Western Airlines ads! That route you describe sounds like perfect training for new pilots with a ton of takeoffs and landings. What did they fly on that route? Oh, one other time I remember flying them DEN - SLC - BOI - PSC on a 727-200. That was in the early 80s. The DEN - LGW nonstops started on April 24, 1981. They also flew HNL - ANC - LGW at one point! Although my Dad worked for United for many years, I always had a fond spot for Western. Can’t say that about Continental... :-)
I believe it was a 737-200
Curious use of metric.
Andrew Burke Annoying, you mean?
Promo film targeting European markets I suppose.
+Andrew Burke, +John Pifer, +Ant Laud, Being an 'old fart', and in junior high at the time, the United States was preparing to "go fully metric", by 1980. Politics, the 1973 "Arab Oil Embargo", "Watergate", "runaway inflation", the aftermath of Vietnam, and a United States - with a citizenry who proved quite hesitant about "becoming more European", especially around the time of our bicentennial, put the kibosh to the effort.
Here are two PSA's:
from 1974: czcams.com/video/KoEgJzNf8b4/video.html (Australia)
from 1978: czcams.com/video/JUXutV6Vk6k/video.html
AMStationEngineer There are 2 kinds of countries - those who use the metric system, and those who have put men on the moon.
John Pifer, agreed; if memory serves, our 'senior citizen population' at the time became fearful that they would be cheated at every produce scale, and that we would go to "the Imperial Gallon". Some older people who lived in areas close to our northern border, upon returning from shopping/fishing, and recreational trips to Canada, told tales of a land which sold gasoline by the quart. Rumors were abound, which stated that "there's a plan afoot which will force us to drive on the opposite side of the road". These were most likely because they encountered "roundabouts" in Ontario and Quebec.
My grandmother was an M.D., and one whole hell of a lot of fun; she told some of her more gullible patients that she was writing "a metric prescription" for them, "REMEMBER TO REMIND THE PHARMACIST THAT THIS IS A METRIC PRESCRIPTION".
My first flight on a jet was 26nov78 lhr-Mia national airlines dc10 it was the perfect first jet flight😍👍
Series 30 was the best version of the DC-10
I flew only once time in my life with DC 10. It was when I flew to Cuba operated by Cubana from Frankfurt/ Main Germany to Havana via Santiago de Cuba in 1996. :-) I was a bit feared, cause about all the bad reputation about the DC 10 and even Cubana, but I had a geart and long flight.
after those crashes the DC-10 didn’t had a crash regarding design flaws ever again, It still managed to become a model that would be produced a lot.
Thank-you for the video. This is the sort of stuff I enjoy learning.
If I had been a steward on a DC-10 with no patience for the rudeness and thoughtlessness of passengers in general (at least that has been my observations), I would use a video like this just to mess with them. Rather than the usual flight safety brief, I would threaten to withhold all alcohol unless there was 100% attention given to this video for the entire 17 minutes.
Actually, I thoroughly enjoy viewing videos like this that go into aircraft mechanics and are infinitely more informative than the usual promotion film. I would love to view a video that went into detail about every inlet, antenna, and gizmo (pardon me for talking over anyone’s head with this technical jargon) that hung off the skin of the aircraft. Especially when I’m waiting to board, I notice everything that is on the aircraft and all activities surrounding it.
The part about the hydraulics caused me to remember that United DC-10 flight that crash landed in Sioux City, Iowa, when the low pressure fan disk disintegrated and cut all hydraulic lines to include the backup system. The story about how the pilots managed to fly the aircraft as far as they did was phenomenal.
The other thing that caused me to think was the demonstration of the evacuation slide, which really seemed to take forever to inflate. I could not help but imagine that impatience and panic among the passengers, as they waited for the slide to fully deploy wouldn’t cause a lot of pushing. As a result, I envisioned the first 10 or so passengers to the now open door would exit without the benefit of taking the slide down.
Thank-you again for posting this. Please keep up the great work!
Thank you Guerry
40 years later, Eurobros came with the A380, a Kerosene-hungry Monster, only to end the production 10 years later 🤣
Sure but airbus is on its own feets but where is Douglas?
@@user-ut5eg3jl4jouch!😅
Any pilots or crew out there who actually flew or worked on the DC-10? It would be nice to get there feedback.. All we have are people basing there opinions about this aircraft on what they saw on Mayday/Seconds from Disaster and a couple of CZcams vlogs managed by people born way after the DC-10 retired from service
The Death Cruiser 10!
Yeah there is a lot of flak out there against the DC…10’s. Actually they were pretty well designed and reliable. All the crashes but one are actually due to human problems. The cargo door was the ground crew improperly latching it. The Chicago crash where the engine fell off was due to maintenance being done improperly. The Sioux City crash was the only one that actually was due to an engine failure. The cargo door was re-designed to handle problems with it being improperly closed and secured.
Boeing did a better job of idiot-proofing their airliners from poorly trained ground crews and mechanics, and the 'how to' manuals for GCs and mechs was probably better written too.
When multiple flight-critical systems are susceptible to a single point of failure and result in catastrophe, you can’t blame maintenance. Blame the ungineers who designed this flying shitbox
Ahhh yes....the DC-10 cargo door 😂
Most versatile aircraft ever made
And National Airlines used the DC 10 to fly LHR (flt #99) & FRA to MIA .. before being taken over by Pan Am ..
Yep saw them nice colours , even done a model in that livery
Flew on wardairs dc10s a few times nice plane main thing I remember is that at cruising height the nose allways seemed to de pointed high and the flight attendants look like they had a hard time pushing the cart from the back of the plane to the front
En mi país lo utilizo ECUATORIANA DE AVIACION...un avión hermoso.
Pia ordered 3 brand jets of this type good old days
Old glory days!
The Air Force’s kc-10 tanker would be based off of this version of the plane.
and is doing better then the boeing kc 46
All of the measurements in this film are quoted completely in metric. I'm assuming that this film was targeted specifically at non-US customers.
Love the DC10! Yeah it was a deathtrap at first but it actually went on to have a safety record similar to all other aircraft.... Eventually lol. Ahh I miss all the good ol' tri jets.
It went on to raise its successful flight record to 37%! RIP to those in the other 63%.
@John Smith ✈️🔥🔥🔥
@@MovieMakingMan that is literally not true. You just made that up LOL
@@dout0rm942 I made a slight statistical error. The successful flight percentage should be 38%. The failure rate was only 62%. 😀.
Alitalia...I-DYNA. I-DYNE
Video seems much older than 1972
@ How did they see into the future to know this would be built?
@@johnmpifer mgm studios sent a film crew to the future in a time machine borrowed by the us govt
1970= DC-10
1970= l-1011 Tristar
1970= F-14 Tomcat
This bloody cargo door claimed many many lives.....
boeing also had cargo door problems
Inherently unsafe cargo door blows off, collapsing the floor, because the ungineers neglected to provide pressure reliefs. So all the control cables get severed. Or all three hydraulic systems run their pipes in close proximity to each other so they all bleed dry when penetrated by shrapnel. Because the ungineers reflected to provide check valves. Total shitbox designed by accountants. The L-1011 was a true engineer’s airplane
I would rather have the 747SP and the A300B4 over the DC-10 or L-1011.
All that and it's still the Death Cruiser 10.
Frances A not really a death cruiser that much, of course it may be due to design flaw but now it mostly pilot error that is a death cruiser
How old are you kid? Let me guess
Minuto 3:00 la famosa escotilla.
Wonderful plane with cheap bolts
What’s with all the metric?
Edmund Blackadder probably aiming at European countries.
@@devonmoors Or at basically any other country outside of the US. Because almost everyone uses the metric system. There are only 3 countries in the entire world who don’t use the metric system.
Ohh, those old good HD videos...)
Nowadays we have 737 Max
7:22 all those redundancies and yet sometimes hydraulics just went to 0. Still a pretty impressive and successful airliner with a long career. Beat the L-111 and stayed in service long after trijets were passe.
Though dangerous, A Plane nearly everyone Hated, still looked Elegant for its time and one of my favorite wide body tri jets
The 777 made it obsolete
DC death plane
Unless you lose #2 turbine and sever all 3 hyd systems.
Why in the F is this in metric? #hashtagwhatthef #americanaviationtakenoshit
Michael so losers can ask
A true piece of s**t flying coffin. Cargo doors, tail hydraulics and pylons. It’s a real wonder they flew as long as they did. The Lockheed L-1011 was a far superior and a much more beautiful airliner. The DC-10 rudder placed engine made this ship distinctively ugly. It’s too bad a fine company like Douglas who put out wonderful places likes the DC-3 and DC-8 engineered this cheaply built travesty.
Would you please tell us exactly how you feel and quit candy coating it all? JUST KIDDING!! Seriously though, how did you develop this opinion about the DC-10? I've read and heard others speak with similar sentiments. Nevertheless, if you have a super-secret source, I am always in the market for learning from others.
Lockheed made a fatal error by locking the L-1011 into Rolls Royce engines. It delayed introduction and also stymied the pursuit of a longer range model, which ultimately led to them compromising size for range with the -500 model. Agreed, the L-1011 was by far superior in terms of technology, safety, and beauty. So glad I got to fly on it when I did. I flew the DC-10 many times as well but there was just on comparison between the two.
C-990 Buff I read a book many years ago about the DC-10 called, If I remember correctly, “Unsafe at any Altitude”. It went into depth about the poor design of the cargo door latches and their failures and Douglases half-ass solution. It was written before the AA flight out of Chicago lost an engine and plunged to earth so that accident wasn’t studied. The main problem with the cargo hatches failing was a massive depressurization in the cargo hold. The crash in Paris actually was caused by a hatch failure, depressurization which caused the floor between the hold and the passenger level to collapse, thereby severing all the hydraulic cables controlling the rudder and elevators, among other things. It was a fascinating study of the design of the plane and its many failures, partly by Douglas rushing it to market to beat the much better and safer designed L-1011. My father was an aeronautical engineer for Boeing in the 60’s and he made me very curious about design and engineering of aircraft, including rockets. Thanks for asking!
AtomSmash I had the privilege of flying an L-1011 once. What a plane! I had the unfortunate experience of flying a DC-10 once from Miami to LA. No comparison. The most disturbing thing about the trip was the constant creaking and flexing of the fuselage that made all the interior overheads, etc creak and groan. I know planes are purposely made to flex but we weren’t even in any turbulence! I wasn’t afraid but I was troubled. I felt like I was flying in a crate. Anyway, once was enough thank you. It’s really a shame that Douglas was allowed to continue building the 10 when the L-1011 was more or less mothballed b/c of monetary issues. Yes, the RR engine debacle, but I’m surprised airlines stayed with the 10, especially when Douglases “fixes” for the hatch latch and flooring collapses were so stupidly half assed... “Here bud, use this pipe to lock the hatch and then look through this tiny window they stuck in to see if it locked. Oh, and did you see the nifty vents they put in the floor to pressurize the cabin and hold evenly so the hydraulics won’t be sliced through in case of massive depressurization? Look Ma, no more problems!” Anyway, I do go on. Thanks for the comment.
C-990 Buff Correction: UAL flight, not AA, out of O’Hare.