DC-10 Airliner
civ_dc-10AircraftCivilianAirliner
- Role
- Airliner
- Size
- VeryLarge
- Max Speed
- 430 kn
- Ceiling
- 42000 ft
- Range Units
- Miles
Description
A US built tri-jet airliner, the DC-10 has two turbofans on underwing pylons and a third one at the base of the vertical stabilizer. The aircraft typically seats over 250 people and is particularly well known for a series of fatal accidents, particularly related to a flawed design of Cargo Hold door. The final nail was put into the coffin of the DC-10 by the advent of efficient twinjets in the US market and the oil crisis.
Unit
- Type
- Aircraft
- Subtype
- VeryLarge
- Role
- Airliner
- In service
- 1971–
- Score value
- 10
Performance
- Wingspan
- 47 m
- Max G
- 4 g
- Climb rate
- 15 m/s
- Ceiling
- 42,000 ft
- Max speed (sea level)
- 430 kn
- Stall speed
- 105 kn
- Mach limit
- 0.98 M
- Empty mass
- 108,000 kg
- Max fuel
- 57,000 kg
- Engines
- 3
- Thrust (each)
- 185 kN
- Cruise
- Mach 0.8 · 6,000 miles
Signatures
- Visual ID range
- 9 nm
- RCS
- 200
- IR signature
- Medium