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Post by wiggy on Feb 17, 2018 22:31:25 GMT
Baring the cargo MD-11's soldiering on, there just aren't enough tri-jets in the skies anymore are there. Here is a selection of one of my favourite airliners the DC-10 from the archive of days gone by............. Biman Bangladesh LHR 1992  Biman Bangladesh Airlines DC-10-30 by Denis Noonan, on Flickr FedEx LHR 1992  Federal Express DC-10-30F by Denis Noonan, on Flickr Continental Airlines LGW 1992  Continental Airlines DC-10-30 by Denis Noonan, on Flickr Ghana Airways LHR 1993  Ghana Airways DC-10-30 by Denis Noonan, on Flickr Nigeria Airways LHR 1993  Nigeria Airways DC-10-30 by Denis Noonan, on Flickr Continental/VASP LGW 1998  Continental Airlines/VASP DC-10-30 by Denis Noonan, on Flickr Gemini Air Cargo BHX 1999  Gemini Air Cargo DC-10-30F by Denis Noonan, on Flickr Northwest/KLM LGW 1999  Northwest Airlines/KLM DC-10-30 by Denis Noonan, on Flickr AOM/Cubana LGW 1999  Air Outre Mer/Cubana DC-10-30 by Denis Noonan, on Flickr Das Air Cargo LGW 2003  Das Air Cargo DC-10-30CF by Denis Noonan, on Flickr Africa One Kemble 2004  Africa One DC-10-30 by Denis Noonan, on Flickr Northwest LGW 2005  Northwest Airlines DC-10-30 by Denis Noonan, on Flickr Omni Air Int'l LGW 2008  Omni Air International DC-10-30 by Denis Noonan, on Flickr Gone but not forgotten.  Denis |
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Post by slideman on Feb 18, 2018 8:08:36 GMT
Lovely selection Denis, sorely miss these wonderful machines.
Trev
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Post by zz on Feb 18, 2018 11:03:27 GMT
Some long-forgotten schemes in those first few shots too.
Bring back memories of days on the Queens Building and the Gatwick viewing area.
Great stuff! 👍
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Post by jargon on Feb 18, 2018 12:19:15 GMT
Lovely Thanks for posting.
Bill is going to love the Northwest
John
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Post by wiggy on Feb 18, 2018 15:09:36 GMT
Thanks all for the kind comments. Certainly harder these days to get ramp shots like these unless you are airside.
Denis.
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Post by graham on Feb 18, 2018 16:28:59 GMT
Superb Denis, lots of great memories when the "triples" ruled the skies.
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Post by lordevanelpuss on Feb 18, 2018 16:44:22 GMT
I managed to fly on one DC-10 which was Wardair's C-GXRB. I managed more Tri Stars. Twice on G-BBAF and twice on C-FTNC.
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Post by keithh on Feb 18, 2018 16:45:01 GMT
I flew in a few 10s, they certainly had character. One of my most memorable flights was in a 10. I had flown from Acapulco to Mexico City in a Mexicana 727 but I deliberately booked the return on a DC10 15 as they and Aeromexico were the only operators of the variant, designed for hot and high operations. It was the last flight of the day and I counted the passengers on the flight, there were eleven including us. It took off and climbed like a fighter, unforgettable.
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Post by denwil189 on Feb 18, 2018 20:29:11 GMT
Really interesting photo's of the DC.10 brings back lots of memories, actually flew to Instanbul and returned on THY DC.10. one of which crashed 2 weeks later near Paris, certainly chilled me down a bit. Will always remember Laker AW, good to see his name is flying again with Norwegian.
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Post by keithh on Feb 18, 2018 21:33:51 GMT
I flew to Florida and Barbados on Laker 10s, good old Freddie! I remember the Turkish crash, they grounded all the 10s and we saw the whole UTA fleet parked up in Paris soon after.
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Post by lordevanelpuss on Feb 18, 2018 21:55:10 GMT
I remember the unfortunate American Airlines one when an engine fell off soon after take off, If I remember rightly, from Chicago. I think this was the one that precipitated the worldwide grounding of DC10s.
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Post by davebasing on Feb 19, 2018 15:44:11 GMT
Superb Denis, lots of great memories when the "triples" ruled the skies. Fully agree with all who have responded, excellent memory jerkers. Made me go back through some of the DC10s I've graphed over the years. Here are a few in schemes not covered by Denis' super selection. If you can stand the sight of grown people crying I'll later also post a selection of those I've photographed in store/scrap.  99-sb by dave tompkins, on Flickr  74-an by dave tompkins, on Flickr  86-dw by dave tompkins, on Flickr  99-qm by dave tompkins, on Flickr  86-cw by dave tompkins, on Flickr 99-qm by dave tompkins, on Flickr  85-fd by dave tompkins, on Flickr  89-bb by dave tompkins, on Flickr The United below is different in retaining its Canadian reg while on lease from CP, taken in Singapore some 20 odd years ago  86-dr by dave tompkins, on Flickr Finally (for this part at least) is one I actually flew on , Varig's PP-VMA. Looking back I've managed 15 DC10 flights with BCal, Sabena, American, Air Florida, Northwest, United and Varig.  96-im by dave tompkins, on Flickr |
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Post by davebasing on Feb 19, 2018 15:47:38 GMT
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Post by denwil189 on Feb 19, 2018 19:45:31 GMT
Well done Dave another superb set of photo's, bringing back good memories, I think I can just about survive seeing pictures of storage/scrap yards!!!
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Post by davebasing on Feb 20, 2018 8:20:26 GMT
Found a few more of different operators, so thought I might as well share them before moving on to the scrap/stored examples- Dennis had a much better and uncluttered shot of 9G-ANA but I've included 9G-ANB taken at Accra firstly as I think its the only DC10 I ever graphed on my various trips to Africa and secondly as she is a survivor. Withdrawn at Accra she lives on (engineless and minus a few other parts) and now resides as a restaurant by the Marina Mall near the airport there.  95-cc by dave tompkins, on Flickr  92-oy by dave tompkins, on Flickr  86-ec by dave tompkins, on Flickr  ac 600 by dave tompkins, on Flickr  75-bt by dave tompkins, on Flickr  99-ap by dave tompkins, on Flickr  01-ag by dave tompkins, on Flickr Stored and wrecks to follow. |
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Post by graham on Feb 20, 2018 10:01:42 GMT
Fantastic Dave and Denis, a superb and nostalgic walk down memory lane
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Post by Jeff on Feb 21, 2018 10:40:55 GMT
One of my first jobs at LHR was unloading the VIASA DC10s, these were basically heaps.... i often wondered how they managed to fly so far every day without issues !
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Post by davebasing on Feb 21, 2018 11:36:20 GMT
And so to the phasing out. N833AA (Premier's SE-DHT) was finally broken up at Bournemouth in 2001, while Sun Country N154SY met its end at Victorville in 2005  01-ju by dave tompkins, on Flickr  04-ni by dave tompkins, on Flickr I took National's N80NA in store at Marana in 1980 but she got a reprieve and joined American as N139AA but was written off at Dallas in 1993. Took Deta Air's UP-DC102 at Victorville in 2014 and looks too good to end up as coke cans. The two ATA aircraft were taken at Marana in 2011 and were clearly not long for this world.  ac 197 by dave tompkins, on Flickr  IMG_7581 by dave tompkins, on Flickr  IMG_1153 by dave tompkins, on Flickr  IMG_1145 by dave tompkins, on Flickr Mojave also handled several DC10s including-  04-lz by dave tompkins, on Flickr  04-lc by dave tompkins, on Flickr Over at Marana there were more (Bill may want to look away at the first one)  US08 1063 by dave tompkins, on Flickr  IMG_1155 by dave tompkins, on Flickr  US08 1065 by dave tompkins, on Flickr  IMG_1085 by dave tompkins, on Flickr  IMG_1010 by dave tompkins, on Flickr  US08 1066a by dave tompkins, on Flickr  IMG_0895 by dave tompkins, on Flickr And a Varig freighter still carrying its Brazilian reg on the upper wings  IMG_1005 by dave tompkins, on Flickr Fifteen DC10s in a single shot  US08 1068 by dave tompkins, on Flickr And (quoting Shakespeare) "by and by a cloud took all away".  IMG_2856 by dave tompkins, on Flickr |
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Post by billsamuels on Feb 21, 2018 12:27:09 GMT
Correct Dave, seeing any old aircraft ending it’s days like this is bad enough but when you’ve had a special relationship with any of them, it’s a little more painful....
But hey, we all eat baked beans!!!
Great shots Dave.
Bill
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Post by lynothehammer on Feb 21, 2018 18:14:25 GMT
Such a good looking aircraft, just goes to show how boring aircraft are these days... I've definitely missed the best times...
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Post by graham on Feb 22, 2018 9:29:05 GMT
Fabulous shots Dave
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Post by zz on Feb 23, 2018 6:53:04 GMT
Very nice.
I like the Lufthansa, Condor, SAS, Iberia... reminds me of my first trips to Europe as a child in the 80s! Also of a collection of Schabak models I had!
Request-
The only DC.10 I remember flying on was THY from Istanbul back to Heathrow in 1987.
Is anyone able to post-
A THY , KLM , Swiss DC.10?
Or one of the best G- regs... G-DCIO !
Thanks
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Post by davebasing on Feb 23, 2018 8:26:12 GMT
Hi ZZ. G-DCIO as requested plus a rather poor quality shot of a THY example at Schipol (I was at Heathrow the day that the THY DC10 crashed near Paris en route to LHR. With BA on strike it had an unusually large number of Brits on board that day. Scenes in the arrivals lounge were heart rending as the news came through). Will dig back and see if I ever did graph KLM or Swiss examples. Thanks to Dennis for starting this thread off with his excellent set. Really has brought back the memories.  ac 623 by dave tompkins, on Flickr  76-cn by dave tompkins, on Flickr |
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Post by zz on Feb 23, 2018 9:55:18 GMT
Thanks Dave, very kind.
Unfortunately I don’t think I have a record of which THY example I flew on.
Thanks again
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Post by rugbyref on Feb 23, 2018 18:10:11 GMT
My really good friend was on TC-JAV when it crashed on 3 March 1974. I did fly on a BA example to and from Bermuda after that, but not my favourite flights!
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Post by gtf4j2m on Feb 24, 2018 10:20:53 GMT
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Post by zz on Feb 24, 2018 11:33:26 GMT
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Post by wiggy on Feb 24, 2018 14:23:18 GMT
Wow, this thread has legs! Thanks for all the comments and additions. Didn't have a THY/KLM/Swiss for ZZ but did manage to rustle up a VIASA for Jeff from Orly in 1986!  VIASA DC-10-30 by Denis Noonan, on Flickr I'm trying not to think how long ago that was! Denis. |
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Post by gtf4j2m on Feb 24, 2018 16:36:06 GMT
Another selection from my archive and a few schemes we have not seen yet. Frankfurt 4.93
C-GCPJ DC10-30 FRA 16.4.93 by Graham Taylor, on Flickr 
D-ADDO DC10-30 FRA 16.4.93 by Graham Taylor, on Flickr 
F-GHOI DC10-30 FRA 17.4.93 by Graham Taylor, on Flickr 
N148US DC10-40 FRA 18.4.93 by Graham Taylor, on Flickr 
N220NW DC10-30 FRA 17.4.93 by Graham Taylor, on Flickr 
N15069 DC10-30 FRA 16.4.93 by Graham Taylor, on Flickr 
XA-AMR DC10-30 FRA 18.4.93 by Graham Taylor, on Flickr Heathrow 1981 another of N82NA this time with Pan Am
N82NA DC10-30 LHR 10.5.81 by Graham Taylor, on Flickr 
PP-VMS DC10-30 LHR 14.6.81 by Graham Taylor, on Flickr Heathrow 1984
EC-DEA DC10-30 LHR 19.4.84 by Graham Taylor, on Flickr Gatwick 1980 the first service by Air Florida
N1035F DC10-30 LGW 10.4.80 by Graham Taylor, on Flickr Gatwick 1981
N821L DC10-30 LGW 13.6.81 by Graham Taylor, on Flickr G-BJZE at Gatwick
G-BJZE DC10-10 LGW 21.5.82 by Graham Taylor, on Flickr 
G-BJZE DC10-10 LGW 20.4.84 by Graham Taylor, on Flickr 
G-BJZE DC10-10 LGW 28.7.86 by Graham Taylor, on Flickr Gatwick 1984
N109WA DC10-30CF LGW 20.4.84 by Graham Taylor, on Flickr Gatwick 1985
PH-MBP DC10-30CF LGW 5.4.85 by Graham Taylor, on Flickr Gatwick 1986
N390EA DC10-30 LGW 28.7.86 by Graham Taylor, on Flickr
Manchester 2002
G-BYDA DC10-30 EGCC 26.5.02 by Graham Taylor, on Flickr East Midlands 2002
N600GC DC10-30F EGNX 22.3.02 by Graham Taylor, on Flickr That's all for now. I have certainly enjoyed this thread. I might put on some photo's of that other great tri-engined type, the Tristar soon Graham GTF4J2M |
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Post by denwil189 on Feb 24, 2018 20:03:57 GMT
Fantastic trip down memory lane, really good to revive all those years of classic aircraft, well done guys. Look forward to more classic's !!
Den
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