NAC: DC-10's

[Cody Forbes]

A whole box full of them in fact. Instead of plastic transport caps the guy duct taped them shut.

-Cody (mobile)

On Aug 17, 2011, at 10:35 PM, Vincent Gelinas <vrgelinas at gmail.com> wrote:

> Wasn't that the one where the oxygen generator was improperly stored and caught fire?
> 
> On Aug 17, 2011 10:33 PM, "Cody Forbes" <cody at 5000tq.com> wrote:
> > Even more off topic, that story reminded me of ValueJet 592 which crashed not too far from where I was living at the time. Of note, it was DC-9.
> > 
> > -Cody (mobile)
> > 
> > On Aug 17, 2011, at 9:48 PM, Dan DiBiase <d_dibiase at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> Neatest flight I ever had was on a DC-3 from Key West to Miami in the mid-80's. Being non-pressurized, it flew very low and over
> >> the Everglades, that was a pretty cool thing. It was probably one of these -
> >> http://tinyurl.com/44uluzz
> >> 
> >> Really neat entering at the back and climbing 'up' to your seat....
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Dan D
> >> '04 A4 1.8Tq MT-6
> >> Central NJ USA
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> ________________________________
> >> From: Marc Boucher <mboucher70 at hotmail.com>
> >> To: Jeff Waterstreet <jwaterstreet at tds.net>; hayesmyers at gmail.com
> >> Cc: quattro at audifans.com
> >> Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 6:45 PM
> >> Subject: NAC: DC-10's
> >> 
> >> 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.
> >> 
> >> --------------------------------------------------
> >> 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.
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> 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
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> True? Or only in America? pretty sure they fly passenger in other parts of
> >>> the world.
> >>> 
> >>> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Jeff Waterstreet <jwaterstreet at tds.net>
> >>> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> "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."
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> 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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