At a distance, the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 and the McDonnell Douglas MD-11 looked almost identical. Both were long, elegant tri-jets with unmistakable tail-mounted center engines and widebody ...
To understand modern widebody aircraft design, we need to return to the late 1970s and early 1980s, a period when two aircraft helped shape the trajectory of the long-haul jets we see in the skies ...