Southwest Airlines DC-10 Custom Livery
Posted by Useful-Tumbleweed598@reddit | aviation | View on Reddit | 21 comments
Posted by Useful-Tumbleweed598@reddit | aviation | View on Reddit | 21 comments
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philocity@reddit
Bring back the DC-10
Clemdauphin@reddit
Nah, a DC-10 is the reason the concorde crashed (because it lost something on the runway)
Nexus772B@reddit
Concorde is the reason Concorde crashed 💀. Planes run over debris all the time and dont have catastrophic tire blowouts that then destroy critical systems and take down the plane.
Concorde however had a serious design flaw. 2 recorded major tire blowout situations, where one took out the entire airframe as a result.
Clemdauphin@reddit
It was more a joke than anything.
MattheiusFrink@reddit
You're both wrong. It was improper repairs and human factors that brought the Concorde down. From the DC-10, yes, but still an unapproved part per the AMM. It was a 17 inch titanium wear strip that fell from the #3 engine cowl.
Why titanium? An A&P in Houston figured it was a better choice. The AMM/SRM called for stainless or an aluminum alloy for the wear strip. The A&P had titanium on hand and decided, rather incorrectly, that titanium would stand up against heat better. But failed to take into account it was a more brittle metal and would likely fail prematurely in the application.
I'm an A&P/IA, I'm in a GA hangar and we fabricate parts quite frequently. But management always makes sure we use the right material. Now that I'm assistant manager, I'm a hard-ass about this because I don't want my shop to be responsible for death. We've already had two aircraft we did major work on go down, but both incidents were pilot error (fuel starvation in the first case, and the second one was the owner using incorrect engine oil in the second.) Both of those were 'fuck me!' moments and weeks of dread, but I digress. Just because we do GA, flight school, and some rotary wing and business class (king airs and pc-12s) doesn't mean the risk for catastrophe is less.
In the case of Continental, some dude in a Houston hangar doing a C-check decided he knew better than the AMM/SRM and made a fatal choice.
Coreysurfer@reddit
1 engine is for a little extra push…
KeyboardGunner@reddit
AI slop. The image has a SynthID watermark.
Rule 8, no AI slop.
Pop_Smoke@reddit
They had a 727 for a short while back in the 70’s.
Ok_Click3557@reddit
For some reason this looks cursed, but I like it
Shoddy_Act7059@reddit
But is it as cursed as seeing the Southwest livery on a 747?
That's the question.
aircavrocker@reddit
I dunno, have you seen the America West 747?
Designer-Salary-7773@reddit
For many years one of SW’s operating advantages was the reliance on a common airframe variants of which shared many components. Very few carriers of their size could make the same claim. Coincidentally as they have acquired and integrated other A/C from their M/A activity their financial struggles have become increasingly challenging.
Almaegen@reddit
They're still running only 737s...
Fresh-Word2379@reddit
330 people fighting for seats for a 43-minute flight from Love to Hobby. No thanks.
pomonamike@reddit
I was going to 43 minutes from Ontario to Vegas.
Actually, I wonder if a high volume flight would work, especially for the Friday afternoon, Sunday night commuters. I guess if would work some airline would be doing it.
Fresh-Word2379@reddit
There are huge planes taking short routes in Asia and Middle East. It sure if that’s common, but I’ve seen them on FlightRadar
Deer-in-Motion@reddit
I think I can get a Southwest livery for the MD11 in MSFS.
Fluffy_Muffins_415@reddit
That's something you might see in another timeline. I do like the livery on the DC-10
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Useful-Tumbleweed598@reddit (OP)
It was a customer Livery I made in Photoshop