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How McDonnell Douglas missed the Big Twin and disappeared
Never in the history of commercial aircraft manufacturing has a company squandered so many opportunities to launch a compelling design that the airlines wanted as McDonnell Douglas did over the concept of a wide-body twin-engine aircraft. There is little doubt if it had launched such an aircraft, back in 1973, it would still be in business today and be a dominant force. (www.airlineratings.com) Mehr...
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Very interesting article. Thanks for posting.
A fascinating retrospective.
We still flying the MDs a lot on cargo flights and they have proven their heritage as good workhorses, is very sat that they went out of making aircrafts, the global aircraft business will be very differnt with them around.
You can lead a horse to water...
Smells like Boeing
Apparently The DC10 Trijet was quite capable at operating on two engines. The third engine was used for takeoffs and climbing to cruising altitude. I am gobsmacked at how Douglas threw away such a revolutionary idea. After all The french proved that with their A300 and A330 designs.
