Originally posted by Jeanske_SN
Which was built the most, dc-10 series or tristar series?

About 450 or so DC-10’s were built. Only about 250 or so Tristars. The DC-10’s will last a lot longer than the Tristars with all these freighter conversions flying about.

I’ll be on one of those TED birds tomorrow morning, en route to Fourt Lauderdale. Tell Mitucci what a great job he does, Franck. Also, what airline does Mitucci fly for?

Originally posted by Matthew Murray
As ever Greekdude, very witty!

Thank you sir.

Happy Birthday, Sandy. Here’s a pic of your favourite airliner, not necessarily in your favourite livery, however. 😉 Photo taken by me in SXM.

Originally posted by Matthew Murray
stick PW in your pipe and smoke it….just like their first and last good engine….
All meant in good humour!

Ill take a Cuban cigar instead, Matthew. They’re hard to come by in my parts.

Originally posted by Matthew Murray
PW can’t make an engine worth anyway.

I don’t know, Pratt did just fine powering every 727 and DC-9/MD80, The first 2 series of 737, the majority of the 707’s, The majority of the 747-100/200’s, and a boatload of military planes. Yet RR did a great job of nearly bankrupting themselves and Lockheed with the whole L1011 debacle. The L1011 remains my favourite airliner of all time. I think they would have done a much better job of competing with the DC10 and probably produce more than 250 airframes had it not been for this debacle. Nowadays, the Trent is probably a better engine than the Pratt, and that’s cool. You pilots and mechanics would know better than me anyway, who am I to argue? At the end of the day, I just get sick of the continuous Pratt bashing and this being a forum, I have to represent. As long as the debate is clean and in good fun, it’s all good. 😎

Terrific pics Allen. Emirates have a great livery.