Its amazing how most things from that era were almost designed and built by hand, thousands of people working on a single project and they made it possible! No computers or advanced software.
I'm old enough to remember the high amount of DC-10 incidents and accidents during the 70s. Especially in 1979 the DC-10 was grounded for a while. Seemingly the safety record got much better in the 80s and beyond.
I’m 44 and a wife of 20 years and mum of 3 grown kids. I never got the opportunity to fly on these beautiful ladies, I didn’t even get to see one up close. I live in the Scottish highlands and I’m 2 hours from my nearest airport, Inverness, which is on the other side of the country. I have missed all these gorgeous aircraft, the DC10, MD11, the classic 747s and the 747/4. I doubt I’ll even get to fly on the 747/8. Today’s aircraft are much more economical and cleaner, but they’ve got no style or personality - not like the classic ladies. Anyway, thank you for sharing this - I just wish I could’ve seen these beautiful girls up close 👍🏻❤️
I remember when I first moved to Long Beach in 1989 and seeing all the finished jets awaiting delivery. The could be seen from Lakewood Blvd. There also used to be a bridge that the planes would cross that was built over Lakewood Blvd.
The DC-10 was all we flew when I was growing up in the 80s and early 90s. Such an amazing and beautifully proportioned aircraft with that distinct DC-10 sound. Never were you on a narrowbody aircraft across the country or to Hawaii like today. DC-10 or bust!
Took many flights on those World Airways DC-10's during the 1980's. Their pilots were some of the best in the industry. They could land a fully loaded DC-10 on a sidewalk with a crosswind. Great memories and good times!
CP Air had some of the prettiest airplanes. 🥰🥰 Next to the original Braniff International with their multi-colored jets and Hughes Airwest with their yellow jets. So sad that these airlines no longer exist. 😢 De-regulation killed em'.
In June 1990, my parents went to Hawaii for their honeymoon. They flew on a Continental DC-10 from Melbourne - Auckland - Honolulu. At the start my dad was not satisfied it was a DC-10 given its history, however at the end of the flight he said it was smoothest flight he'd ever been on. Shame the DC-10 copped a beating it truly proved itself in the end.
This film shows the manufacturing and design of the DC-10 airplane, with much of it being shot in Santa Monica, California, home of the McDonnell Douglas factory. It also shows the McDonnell Douglas plant located in Torrance, CA, which is now part of Northrop.
+PeriscopeFilm Thank you for sharing this wonderful historical film footage. The Douglas Aircraft Company was originally founded in Santa Monica, CA. The Long Beach plant was where the DC-10 was assembled and delivered to customers.
Final Assembly was in building 84. Next door was building 80. Wonder what they (we) built there? Buildings 80 and 84 were in Long Beach, right next to (and using) CSULB's football field parking lot. steve
Dang, how can you be so badly misinformed? Both the DC-10 and DC-8 airliners were manufactured in Long Beach, not Santa Monica. Douglas Aircraft stopped manufacturing aircraft in Santa Monica back in 1967. Zamperini Field in Torrance has a 3,000 foot runway. The DC-10 requires over 11,000 feet for landing and nearly 6,000 feet for take off. How do you suppose those DC-10's left Torrance if they were manufactured there? Northrop's plant is located in El Segundo; not Torrance. The film even states in the beginning that the plant that built the DC-10 is in Long Beach.
This was the best generation of people that ever lived. I mis the family work ethics. Best time to be alive and the quality of life was much better. Plus the dollar went much farther than today.
I loved flying on this plane in the 70's. There was just something about it that made it a lovely comfortable plane to fly in. Always preferred it over the Jumbo
4:15 love the fact that the workers in that factory could plod away on their machinery without any ppe. Wish I was working back then and not in todays overly sensitive workplace
I flew on those World Airway's DC-10's many many times in the 1980's. From LAX to BWI and back. World had a terminal all by itself on the general aviation side of LAX that was easy to get in and out of. Flying has changed big time since then. And not in a good way either. It used to be fun. I'm not joking.....for reals....flying USED TO be fun. Imagine that!
There was also a DC-10-15 version. It was a DC-10-10 airframe with -50 GE engines. Mexicana and Skyjet used this version for high altitude airports in South America.
@@Itapirkanmaa2 Also used by American Airlines for many trans-Atlantic flights, and flights to Hawaii too. IIRC Transaero Airlines leased a few from American for a while.
My top 3 airliners of all time from a "beauty" perspective, the Lockheed Super Constellation G or H, the Convair 990A Coronado, and on top of the mountain the DC-10.
Oh man! I looove that old school Saul Bass designed United logo and font at 0:49 The airline is really crap now, sadly. A little trivia, Mr. Bass also designed Continental Airlines' logo too. And decades later those airlines merged forming the crap we have today.
One particular DC-10 in this clip was to be delivered to Pakistan International Airlines. PIA would later exchange its DC-10s for Canadian Pacific Airlines' 747s.
Human hands built this magnificent aircraft. All those people working and putting food on their tables. It's a shame we don't seem to manufacture anything of significance anymore.
Everyone one of those Douglas mechanics shown on this promotional film during filming were dreaming about those ice cold schooners of beer for lunch at the Thirsty Isle!
I worked there for 17 years, on DC-9/ MD-80 and MD-11/KC-10 lines. It was an amazing place. Some of the buildings were almost a mile long! Sad to see it all torn down. B-17 Flying Fortresses were once built there.
While very serious without question, only the cargo door in the beginning of the DC-10's career was a design or build flaw. Everything else was maintenance issues. As bad as the Chicago 191 was, that was not the planes' fault. Neither was Iowa in '89.
However, don't forget that the location of the 3 hydraulic lines contributed to catastrophic loss of control in both UA232 and AA191. After 191, the hydraulic system was modified to include shut-off valves to avoid loss of all fluid.
👍👍👍👏👏👏👏 Bravo .Vous avez tout dit Le DC 10 a subit une terrible et profonde injustice, tout au long de sa carrière, (ce qui l'a achevé)..a cause de tous ces accidents aériens .Alors que ce n'était pas l avion qui etait coupable.
Only thing however, this never answered my question!!!. How does the Bulk pit door open on a DC-10, In or out?? I used to these at NA, but can't recall the Bulk pit door and how much room we had...
Note how older women are all doing the wiring for the computers. This is due to it being similar to sewing, in fact, on the Saturn V rocket, the main memory components were wired by Russian grandmothers due to their skill IIRC, according to that one interview with Smarter Every Day. Interesting stuff!
At 09:23 the narrator states, "...the world's most advanced aircraft." This is a blatant inaccuracy, as it is well documented that the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar was technologically more advanced than either the DC-10 or B747.
Ashame that such a beautiful left such controversial legacy. The faulty cargo door incident resulting in the crash of the Turkish airline DC-10 in March 1974 was a flagrant violation and one in which McDonnell Douglas could have been criminally charged. The DC-10 crash in Chicago further eroded public confidence resulting in a full grounding of all DC-10's in June of 1979, something unprecedented at that time. The DC-10 will always be remembered as an airplane with a very checkered past.
DC-10 production line Mac- Hey Jed, I’ve got an idea, I’m going to slip It in the suggestion box during the break Jed- I hope you get the bonus, now tell me about this great idea to save the company money Mac- it’s like this Jed, we run all three hydraulic lines together, we’ll save a couple of days Jed- sounds great, after all what could possible go wrong?
Ahhhhh, the good ole Death Cylinder-10 holds the record for killing more passengers due to engineering and design flaws than any other jet airliner! From cargo doors blowing off to high bounce potential on landing. One bounce and the wing hits the ground, breaks off, and the whole thing rolls over.
Ironically the Boeing 747 it has the double of deaths by each accidents from lacking of takeoff alarms (Lufthansa 540) to engine pylon's durability (China Airlines 352 & El Al 1862) so dont try to pressume that the DC-10 is "the only propense to crash".
@@andrewstinson3284 because I dont thin you ever bothered what its the jumbo jet that lost more airframe & lives. The DC-10 lost 32 frames and lost 1,261 lives while the 747 lost 63 frames and lost 3,748 lives ¿What its your excuse?
Pieces of crap. Cargo doors blown out-crashes. AA Flight 191 out of O'Hare-worst crash in US aviation history. I know the widow of one of the passengers on that flight. What a shame. AA didn't service the pylons/engines correctly. :(
Its amazing how most things from that era were almost designed and built by hand, thousands of people working on a single project and they made it possible! No computers or advanced software.
probably why there was so much accidents
I’ve worked the DC-10 (MD-10) for decades especially Fedex. And still relevant today. A great aircraft
I'm old enough to remember the high amount of DC-10 incidents and accidents during the 70s. Especially in 1979 the DC-10 was grounded for a while. Seemingly the safety record got much better in the 80s and beyond.
Basically, so many DC10s crashed that they had to spend millions on safety revamps
Except for United 232.
Coffin economics
Most of the spectacular accidents associated with this plane were maintenance-related issues. The plane itself was well- built.
I’m 44 and a wife of 20 years and mum of 3 grown kids. I never got the opportunity to fly on these beautiful ladies, I didn’t even get to see one up close. I live in the Scottish highlands and I’m 2 hours from my nearest airport, Inverness, which is on the other side of the country. I have missed all these gorgeous aircraft, the DC10, MD11, the classic 747s and the 747/4. I doubt I’ll even get to fly on the 747/8. Today’s aircraft are much more economical and cleaner, but they’ve got no style or personality - not like the classic ladies. Anyway, thank you for sharing this - I just wish I could’ve seen these beautiful girls up close 👍🏻❤️
You may have also missed the Lockheed L-1011 Tristar.
I remember when I first moved to Long Beach in 1989 and seeing all the finished jets awaiting delivery. The could be seen from Lakewood Blvd. There also used to be a bridge that the planes would cross that was built over Lakewood Blvd.
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The DC-10 was all we flew when I was growing up in the 80s and early 90s. Such an amazing and beautifully proportioned aircraft with that distinct DC-10 sound. Never were you on a narrowbody aircraft across the country or to Hawaii like today. DC-10 or bust!
Took many flights on those World Airways DC-10's during the 1980's. Their pilots were some of the best in the industry. They could land a fully loaded DC-10 on a sidewalk with a crosswind. Great memories and good times!
That is the most exquisitely sharpened pencil I have ever seen.
Nice seeing the CP air tails
CP Air had some of the prettiest airplanes. 🥰🥰 Next to the original Braniff International with their multi-colored jets and Hughes Airwest with their yellow jets. So sad that these airlines no longer exist. 😢 De-regulation killed em'.
Man, I love this... the Golden Age of aviation and civilisation... The DC-10 is the most beautiful thing to have ever graced the skies! :-)
In June 1990, my parents went to Hawaii for their honeymoon. They flew on a Continental DC-10 from Melbourne - Auckland - Honolulu. At the start my dad was not satisfied it was a DC-10 given its history, however at the end of the flight he said it was smoothest flight he'd ever been on. Shame the DC-10 copped a beating it truly proved itself in the end.
Awesome place to work, schooners at lunch, smoking a dubbie, no drug testing Awesome
l'un des plus bel avion de tous les temps.. .I Love DC 10 MD11 and DC9/ MD.
The DC-10 flew commercially for more than 40 years and is still used in firefighting today. It became a domestic cross-country workhorse for decades.
This film shows the manufacturing and design of the DC-10 airplane, with much of it being shot in Santa Monica, California, home of the McDonnell Douglas factory. It also shows the McDonnell Douglas plant located in Torrance, CA, which is now part of Northrop.
+PeriscopeFilm Thank you for sharing this wonderful historical film footage. The Douglas Aircraft Company was originally founded in Santa Monica, CA. The Long Beach plant was where the DC-10 was assembled and delivered to customers.
Final Assembly was in building 84.
Next door was building 80. Wonder what
they (we) built there?
Buildings 80 and 84 were in Long Beach,
right next to (and using) CSULB's football
field parking lot.
steve
Crazy place to work.. btdt
Dang, how can you be so badly misinformed? Both the DC-10 and DC-8 airliners were manufactured in Long Beach, not Santa Monica. Douglas Aircraft stopped manufacturing aircraft in Santa Monica back in 1967. Zamperini Field in Torrance has a 3,000 foot runway. The DC-10 requires over 11,000 feet for landing and nearly 6,000 feet for take off. How do you suppose those DC-10's left Torrance if they were manufactured there? Northrop's plant is located in El Segundo; not Torrance. The film even states in the beginning that the plant that built the DC-10 is in Long Beach.
This was the best generation of people that ever lived. I mis the family work ethics. Best time to be alive and the quality of life was much better. Plus the dollar went much farther than today.
Absolutely and my dad was one of them in LB Yuma & Tulsa ;)
Worked the DC-10 for 20 years.. we always called them the death cruiser.. cuz if lost and engine its rate of decent was amazing.
United 232 says, “Hold my beer!” They drove that thing around for 45 minutes after catastrophic engine failure.
I loved flying on this plane in the 70's. There was just something about it that made it a lovely comfortable plane to fly in. Always preferred it over the Jumbo
I flew one from amsterdam to miami (11h47m) andback (8h39m). Loved it.
Back when California was great.
Awesome historical video
4:15 love the fact that the workers in that factory could plod away on their machinery without any ppe.
Wish I was working back then and not in todays overly sensitive workplace
I flew on those World Airway's DC-10's many many times in the 1980's. From LAX to BWI and back. World had a terminal all by itself on the general aviation side of LAX that was easy to get in and out of. Flying has changed big time since then. And not in a good way either. It used to be fun. I'm not joking.....for reals....flying USED TO be fun. Imagine that!
Really world airways? We flew them to Kuwait in the army during the war. We flew dc-10s. And md-11s.
9/11 changed everything for the worse. Big Brother Govt keeps getting bigger.
Thanks for sharing your memories. I actually flew world from BWI to HNL via LAX as an 8-year-old in 1982.
@@derekrohan9619 They had 747's, 727's and DC-8's also.In the 70's thru the 90's that is.
There was also a DC-10-15 version. It was a DC-10-10 airframe with -50 GE engines. Mexicana and Skyjet used this version for high altitude airports in South America.
And 10-30 ER with the extra tanks. First used by Finnair on the Helsinki-Tokyo polar non-stop.
they made 15 [ or was it 7 ?]
Some of the -15's ended up flying for Sun Country for awhile.
@@Itapirkanmaa2 Also used by American Airlines for many trans-Atlantic flights, and flights to Hawaii too. IIRC Transaero Airlines leased a few from American for a while.
My top 3 airliners of all time from a "beauty" perspective, the Lockheed Super Constellation G or H, the Convair 990A Coronado, and on top of the mountain the DC-10.
Flew a few times on the DC1O
It was less noisy
And flew DC11 once
Good memories
Oh man! I looove that old school Saul Bass designed United logo and font at 0:49 The airline is really crap now, sadly. A little trivia, Mr. Bass also designed Continental Airlines' logo too. And decades later those airlines merged forming the crap we have today.
One particular DC-10 in this clip was to be delivered to Pakistan International Airlines. PIA would later exchange its DC-10s for Canadian Pacific Airlines' 747s.
Mc Donnell Douglas Forever .. DC10 ./MD11.DC9/MD . forever❤❤❤❤❤
Human hands built this magnificent aircraft. All those people working and putting food on their tables. It's a shame we don't seem to manufacture anything of significance anymore.
Everyone one of those Douglas mechanics shown on this promotional film during filming were dreaming about those ice cold schooners of beer for lunch at the Thirsty Isle!
The thirsty isle!!! I wonder if its still there?
@@MD-on9fi, yes it is!
@@skiploader85 Drank my share of schooners there, but the food was awful! DC-9 Building 13, Dept 510
LOL been there done that department 587 W. ramp 1987 to 2001 then went to the C-17
Legendary 👍❤️
I have been looking for is documentary on you tube a long time
I wish I could have worked in Long Beach before they tore most of the place down...
I worked there for 17 years, on DC-9/ MD-80 and MD-11/KC-10 lines. It was an amazing place. Some of the buildings were almost a mile long!
Sad to see it all torn down. B-17 Flying Fortresses were once built there.
While very serious without question, only the cargo door in the beginning of the DC-10's career was a design or build flaw. Everything else was maintenance issues. As bad as the Chicago 191 was, that was not the planes' fault. Neither was Iowa in '89.
Exactly. There was *one* accident due to the aircraft itself, yet it got such a bad rap. Look at the 737 and 737 MAX aircraft!
However, don't forget that the location of the 3 hydraulic lines contributed to catastrophic loss of control in both UA232 and AA191. After 191, the hydraulic system was modified to include shut-off valves to avoid loss of all fluid.
@@BradRoss63 tru dat 👌
👍👍👍👏👏👏👏 Bravo .Vous avez tout dit Le DC 10 a subit une terrible et profonde injustice, tout au long de sa carrière, (ce qui l'a achevé)..a cause de tous ces accidents aériens .Alors que ce n'était pas l avion qui etait coupable.
@@BradRoss63 IMO that valve retrofit supports the idea that the danger, especially after the first 15 years or so, was terribly overblown/exaggerated.
Only thing however, this never answered my question!!!.
How does the Bulk pit door open on a DC-10, In or out??
I used to these at NA, but can't recall the Bulk pit door and how much room we had...
Bulk door opens outward.
Note how older women are all doing the wiring for the computers. This is due to it being similar to sewing, in fact, on the Saturn V rocket, the main memory components were wired by Russian grandmothers due to their skill IIRC, according to that one interview with Smarter Every Day. Interesting stuff!
😊
A lesson for any project engineer on corner cutting
19:19 Nice 240z next to airplane.
Some years later, the Air Force’s kc-10 would be built for aerial refueling.
Enjoyed this a lot. Thanks for sharing ✨👍😀
Notice the Series 40, with the "pickle barrel"
#2 engine intake?
steve
No
Thanks... we used to fly these planes👍🇳🇿
I would love to get the soundtrack for this.. wicked good music.
At 09:23 the narrator states, "...the world's most advanced aircraft." This is a blatant inaccuracy, as it is well documented that the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar was technologically more advanced than either the DC-10 or B747.
Great video and wonky music...brilliant
MD plant was in at Long Beach Airport. MD is now part of Boeing
S. Mesut best thing that could have happend in the world is Airbus gone
its long since close down
MD replaced DC because of the horrible reputation of this travesty of an airliner.
2 fatal crashes because of a design flaw numbnuts
a tragic start a beautiful ending
what year is this?
Probably around 1979 or 1980. A KC-10 is shown there along with United DC-10s in Rainbow livery. Their last DC-10s were delivered in 1981
Death Cruiser💀
before computers- damn!
Check the cargo door...
❤❤🎉
Ashame that such a beautiful left such controversial legacy. The faulty cargo door incident resulting in the crash of the Turkish airline DC-10 in March 1974 was a flagrant violation and one in which McDonnell Douglas could have been criminally charged. The DC-10 crash in Chicago further eroded public confidence resulting in a full grounding of all DC-10's in June of 1979, something unprecedented at that time. The DC-10 will always be remembered as an airplane with a very checkered past.
Shame that she was labelled Death Cruiser 10.
At the beginning of the production there were lots of problems with quality of DC-10
Its so funny how the film talks about 'man hours' while showing (predominantly) a woman engineer.
Many good jobs gone.
I flew an American DC-10 fron DEN to JFK on 07/26/2021
In Fedex colors???
Malaysian Airlines DC-10..😍
death contraption 10.
Too bad about that pesky cargo door.
Dc 10 by creating in 1970
Go home music your drunk
"You're?
Or were you referring to
your drunk friend?
DAMN, English is such a DIFFICULT
language to use!
steve
DC-10 production line
Mac- Hey Jed, I’ve got an idea, I’m going to slip It in the suggestion box during the break
Jed- I hope you get the bonus, now tell me about this great idea to save the company money
Mac- it’s like this Jed, we run all three hydraulic lines together, we’ll save a couple of days
Jed- sounds great, after all what could possible go wrong?
Fast forward to Sioux City...🛬💥⚰
Fly DC Jets
it looks like it was made 50 years before the dc 10
5 minutes 38 seconds, where was SHE when I
was building the MD-11?
steve
Sorry, bro. She was probably dating the dude with the big ol' mutton chops at 9:38.
Ahhhhh, the good ole Death Cylinder-10 holds the record for killing more passengers due to engineering and design flaws than any other jet airliner! From cargo doors blowing off to high bounce potential on landing. One bounce and the wing hits the ground, breaks off, and the whole thing rolls over.
Ironically the Boeing 747 it has the double of deaths by each accidents from lacking of takeoff alarms (Lufthansa 540) to engine pylon's durability (China Airlines 352 & El Al 1862) so dont try to pressume that the DC-10 is "the only propense to crash".
@@axl1632 You have no idea what you're talking about.
@@andrewstinson3284 because I dont thin you ever bothered what its the jumbo jet that lost more airframe & lives.
The DC-10 lost 32 frames and lost 1,261 lives
while the 747 lost 63 frames and lost 3,748 lives
¿What its your excuse?
THY 981 March 1974 . France' ..DC 10/..cargo door shit lock system 🔐...
@@axl1632 Yes but to be fair to both at the time safety wasn't good
Pieces of crap. Cargo doors blown out-crashes. AA Flight 191 out of O'Hare-worst crash in US aviation history. I know the widow of one of the passengers on that flight. What a shame. AA didn't service the pylons/engines correctly. :(
Maintenance/Mechanics didn't follow proper procedures. ✈🛬💥⚰
So it's a piece of crap because the airline handled mantinence wrong?
Serial kiler totally