Ten Ten
Brand new and immaculately finished United Airlines McDonnell-Douglas DC-10 'Friend Ship' N1801U taxies out at Washington's Dulles Airport.
Delivered to them just ten days before I took this photo in June 1972, in 1998 she was sold to FedEx becoming N364FE and converted to a freighter.
In 2003 she suffered a heavy landing at Memphis where the starboard undercarriage collapsed and she veered off the runway and was engulfed in flames - subsequently being damaged beyond repair.
Behind her in this forty four year old image are a couple of American Airlines Boeing 707's and one of their 747 Jumbos plus the nose of either a BOAC VC-10 or 707 just visible by the DC-10's third engine.
Scanned Kodak Instamatic 25 print.
Ten Ten
Brand new and immaculately finished United Airlines McDonnell-Douglas DC-10 'Friend Ship' N1801U taxies out at Washington's Dulles Airport.
Delivered to them just ten days before I took this photo in June 1972, in 1998 she was sold to FedEx becoming N364FE and converted to a freighter.
In 2003 she suffered a heavy landing at Memphis where the starboard undercarriage collapsed and she veered off the runway and was engulfed in flames - subsequently being damaged beyond repair.
Behind her in this forty four year old image are a couple of American Airlines Boeing 707's and one of their 747 Jumbos plus the nose of either a BOAC VC-10 or 707 just visible by the DC-10's third engine.
Scanned Kodak Instamatic 25 print.