"Too low. Gear."

[WestIndian425]

In memory of the Space Shuttle, perhaps?

 

[Autothrust Blue]

"Oh, right...uh, gear down, before landing check."

Those freight pilots, they're cray!

 

[Inverted]

Hmmmmm

 

[Bumblebee]

that's a go-around...

 

[cstewart6]

Negative transfer, he probably learned that at Airnet

 

[Ajax]

Sexy airplane

 

[Itchy]

Gotta say, it looks better with the gear up. They knew that, they knew people on the ground would appreciate it, and it was nice out so they figured someone might be recording. Pretty cool crew I'd say.

 

[scooter2525]

What's the gear extend speed on that bird?

 

[Autothrust Blue]

that's a go-around...

Read this

 

[JayAre]

Doesn't the MD-10 have a third center main gear? Or is it just the MD-11? Maybe tower asked for 160 kts till the inner marker :-0

 

[Dugie8]

Doesn't the MD-10 have a third center main gear? Or is it just the MD-11? Maybe tower asked for 160 kts till the inner marker :-0

Dc-10-30 had the center gear. I'm not sure what variant of the DC10s became the MD11.

 

[etflies]

The landing gear just managed to beat the rest of the airplane to the runway like it always does. Hakuna matata y'all.

 

[TFaudree_ERAU]

that's a go-around...

Naw. That's knowing how long it takes for the extension sequence to complete.

 

[JustinS]

Whoops! I love the comment on youtube, and the reply by the guy who filmed it:

"that.....was awsome!"

"Lol, really? As I was filming this, I was preparing for the worst!"

I've witnessed a plane do a gear up landing... Awful awful metal scraping noises.

 

[GX]

I'm sure I'm going to get this all screwed up, but here is my best interpretation of the DC-10/MD-11 FedEX planes.

They were DC-10's that got converted to the MD-11 cockpit, and became MD-10's, essentially. The DC-10-30 had the center bogie, as did the -40. The -40 was the predecessor to the MD-11, and fell notoriously short of all of the pre-production numbers. The MD11 fell even shorter of its pre-production numbers, falling short in both range and MTOW, and as a result, the airplane didn't do as well as it could have done in the market.

EASILY my favorite airplane to fly on, though. MD had ergonomics down in the 80's and 90's. And the Air Force.... Sleeping in a boom pod is the way to fly 15 hours.

I've seen one gear up landing, and it was, by far, the most epic gear up ever. Well, maybe the Barney in The 'Stan is on par with this....

 

[MikeD]

I'm sure I'm going to get this all screwed up, but here is my best interpretation of the DC-10/MD-11 FedEX planes.

They were DC-10's that got converted to the MD-11 cockpit, and became MD-10's, essentially.

The conversions were done out at KGYR

 

[GX]

The conversions were done out at KGYR

IWA, I thought?

 

[MikeD]

IWA, I thought?

Naw, it was down at GYR. Thats where the retired UAL and AA DC-10 planes were already stored, and the company (Dimension Aviation? I can't remember), towed them across the runway to the ramp, gutted them, and did the conversions there on site at their facility in the main former USN and former Sperry hangar next to the tower. The -10s are apparently more popular than the -11s.

 

[TFaudree_ERAU]

The -10s are apparently more popular than the -11s.

Because they don't bounce.

 

[MikeD]

The last big conversion program undertaken at GYR was done in the same hangar there when Sperry owned it; doing a good number of the conversions of F-100D/F Super Sabres to QF-100 drones in the early 1980s. Still remember seeing the old jets flying in and out of the field back then when it was located in the middle of nowhere in the SW valley.