What it takes to fly the biggest firefighting plane in the world.

The McDonnell Douglas DC-10 and the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar are arguably the best aircraft of the trijet era. While both planes had several differences, what truly set them apart was the configuration ...

In decades gone by, air travel was very exclusive indeed. In the late 1920s and the beginning of the commercial flight boom, two round-trip tickets for a flight across the United States cost as much ...

The McDonnell Douglas DC-10 may be long gone from commercial passenger service, but several of these iconic trijets still operate across the US. More than 50 years since its first flight, a handful of ...

10 Tanker’s Converted DC-10 Hits Wildfire Near St. George, Utah, Through Heavy Smoke. There are plenty of remarkable videos of the air crews from 10 Tanker using their unique, converted DC-10 aerial ...

Northwest retired the last of its DC-10 aircraft from scheduled service Jan. 8, ending a 34-year run in which the airline used them to carry more than 125 million passengers, complete more than ...

Even aerial firefighting aircraft are worth a make-over, but the revamped livery on the distinctive McDonnell-Douglas DC-10-30 of US operator 10 Tanker serves a practical purpose. The company has ...

CHICAGO — As 258 passengers filed on to American Airlines Flight 191 at O’Hare International Airport the Friday before Memorial Day in 1979, nothing suggested that they would never reach Los Angeles.