NAC: DC-10's

[Marc Boucher]

I was just waiting for someone to take issue with the aircraft comparison. 
Though I was certain that the issue would be that its a bad comparison 
because airline maintenance will involve pretty much swapping out every part 
of the aircraft several times over the aircraft's life.  Comparison could 
also be seen as inappropriate because of the much higher cost of failure of 
a commercial aircraft.

But I stand corrected (partially) for using the DC-10 in the example.  I 
thought that KLM were using them when I spotted one last week, but I checked 
my facts and they actually use the MD-11.   So DC-10's are not used for 
passenger traffic anymore...except in Oklahoma :)

I've definitely flown on some jets that I'd wished had been retired earlier. 
Early generation Airbus 300's come to mind.  I'm sure that's nothing 
compared to people who've flown on aging Soviet jets.

I never much liked the DC-10.  And once it left debris on the runway at CDG 
causing the Concorde's demise, I never quite forgave it.

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From: "Jeff Waterstreet" <jwaterstreet at tds.net>
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 3:06 PM
To: "'Hayes Myers'" <hayesmyers at gmail.com>
Cc: <quattro at audifans.com>
Subject: RE: Checklist for Reliability of Older Audis

> I just checked; none of the major scheduled commercial airlines in the US 
> or
> any major country have any for that matter, except a small charter airline
> company in Oklahoma has 8.  There are a couple flying passenger service in
> Peru and Bangladesh, not airlines that most of us would fly on under any
> circumstance.
>
>
>
> Fedex owns most of the 100 or so still flying, around 75.
>
>
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> From: Hayes Myers [mailto:hayesmyers at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 2:52 PM
> To: Jeff Waterstreet
> Cc: quattro at audifans.com
> Subject: Re: Checklist for Reliability of Older Audis
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>
>
> True? Or only in America? pretty sure they fly passenger in other parts of
> the world.
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> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Jeff Waterstreet <jwaterstreet at tds.net>
> wrote:
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> "Major airlines still fly DC-10's or even older, alongside 777's, and they
> achieve comparable reliability by doing more maintenance on the older
> members of the fleet."
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>
> This comment uses a bad example; the last DC-10 was retired in 2007.  They
> don't fly passenger service anymore; just freight.
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