Home
Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
Latest activity
Members
Current visitors
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Home
Forums
The Competition
FedEx Discussions
The MD11
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="MrFedEx" data-source="post: 766958" data-attributes="member: 12508"><p>It's interesting that most of the serious crashes of the MD11 show it lying upside down because it's just flipped-over as in the Tokyo accident. Your point is a good one, and I don't really know how much difference there is between descent angle and landing speed bewteen a 767 or 777 and an MD11. As far as I know, all airplanes follow the same glideslope while landing, but speeds and attitude vary greatly between different types of planes.I do know that in a high crosswind situation that all jets carry extra speed because it might be necessary to do a go-around and either try again or head to an alternate airport. There are several really good videos of crosswind landings on YouTube, including a FedEx MD11 at Narita and of a UPS DC-8. A really terrifying one shows an Airbus actually striking it's wing on the runway at Hamburg. Amazingly, the pilots were able to do a go-around.</p><p> </p><p>The MD11 people I know really fear this airplane, but only in certain weather conditions. When they designed it, the horizontal stabilizer was reduced in size from it's dimensions on the DC10, an airplane that didn't have an issue with crosswinds or flipping on it's back. Add-in the stretched fuselage of the MD11, and an already marginally stable aircraft becomes a killer. I jumpseated in them a few times, but that was when they were first introduced and this problem hadn't been discovered. If I was asked to ride in one today, I'd head back to the ticket counter and find another airline.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MrFedEx, post: 766958, member: 12508"] It's interesting that most of the serious crashes of the MD11 show it lying upside down because it's just flipped-over as in the Tokyo accident. Your point is a good one, and I don't really know how much difference there is between descent angle and landing speed bewteen a 767 or 777 and an MD11. As far as I know, all airplanes follow the same glideslope while landing, but speeds and attitude vary greatly between different types of planes.I do know that in a high crosswind situation that all jets carry extra speed because it might be necessary to do a go-around and either try again or head to an alternate airport. There are several really good videos of crosswind landings on YouTube, including a FedEx MD11 at Narita and of a UPS DC-8. A really terrifying one shows an Airbus actually striking it's wing on the runway at Hamburg. Amazingly, the pilots were able to do a go-around. The MD11 people I know really fear this airplane, but only in certain weather conditions. When they designed it, the horizontal stabilizer was reduced in size from it's dimensions on the DC10, an airplane that didn't have an issue with crosswinds or flipping on it's back. Add-in the stretched fuselage of the MD11, and an already marginally stable aircraft becomes a killer. I jumpseated in them a few times, but that was when they were first introduced and this problem hadn't been discovered. If I was asked to ride in one today, I'd head back to the ticket counter and find another airline. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Home
Forums
The Competition
FedEx Discussions
The MD11
Top