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A nostalgic DC10 airshow low pass...low enough to do haircuts!

Oh my days! Truely stunning. Imagine that these days? The Health n Safety police would have a bloody field day. People on the tarmac and everything. Brilliant stuff. Was it Pan-Am?

Nice one Roy.

It's in Brazil and looks like it's an old Varig liveried DC10

Can't quite make it out. Can see the dark blue nose. Can also see what looks like a circular piece of liv on the tail, which lead me to think PA. Fantastic whosever.
Those crazy South Americans! Have always known how to enjoy themselves.

Cheers Roy.

Wow incredible!

Kinda blows my experiences of the Biman DC10 at the mound out of the water doesn't it...

StarMonarA380

Was lucky enough to fly on a MyTravel one (BYDA if I remember correctly).

Engines are getting more and more powerful and more fuel efficient every year so there isn't really a need for TriJets anymore. The 777 probably produces a similar amount of thrust as an MD11 so having an extra engine just increases the fuel burn.

Sam

Great vid, would love to have been there.

Never flew on a DC-10 more's the pity, managed an MD-11 though.

Agree you wouldn't get anything like that nowadays, remember Woodford Airshow in 1978, well before the flying display got under way the Red Arrows did a flypast in their Gnat's, was a really miserable day and I'm sure they got both the altitude wrong as well as the line of flight as it seemed to be about as high as that DC-10 in the vid and directly overhead, plus they had the smoke on which for about 30 seconds after they passed it seemed as if we were in the middle of a Hammer Horror set as it was a real white pea-souper.

Also remember from that time the Dutch AF Friendship used to be the star turn at airshows all over Europe with it's low pass - photo's made many a magazine, that's one other thing I regret not actually seeing in the flesh.

Yes same - i went on a mytravel DC-10 to cyprus i beileve - but it was around 5 Years Ago!

long time go now but i remember flying from Miami to Man and back again on Freddy Lakers DC10s, quite an experience then, as it was my first ever flight on a wide body. the only down side was having to route via Prestwick which added a couple of hours each way to the trip...... still a great experience though!!!!

That has to be one of the coolest ways to have flown a 10! They were special!!

Absolutely fantastic video, thanks for sharing!

Absolutely stunning and get stuffed H&S lol!