August 1, 2006 at 8:55 am
Tristar and DC-10 were built to meet the same design task:
On a hot summer day, they had to take off from La Guardia notoriously short runway with full payload and fuel for trip, with safety margin for one engine out
and on a hot summer day, they had to take off from Denver, with full fuel and payload, and in case of one engine out, still cross the Rockies.
Airbus and Boeing later started to build twin widebodies.
Can A300 meet the La Guardia and Denver requirements? Can B767? What about A330? Or B777?