Federal Express DC-10

Federal Express flight 769 from Memphis on final approach to Dulles Int'l.

Nice.

Good exposure and very sharp!

Beautiful shot....I like how it pops out of the blue sky.

Nice shot.

Excellent

That is actually a MD-10.
Fedex has taken most of there DC-10 and modified them with a MD-11 cockpit. That way the MD-11 pilots can fly either with a common type, Saves them a pilot by doing away with the flight engineer. They will park the remaining DC-10 fleet after peak this year.
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Nice.

Fedxpress wrote in post #6294013
That is actually a MD-10.
Fedex has taken most of there DC-10 and modified them with a MD-11 cockpit. That way the MD-11 pilots can fly either with a common type, Saves them a pilot by doing away with the flight engineer. They will park the remaining DC-10 fleet after peak this year.
Fedxpress

Thanks for the clarification. I usually make sure I get a shot of the tail # so I can look up the exact type of aircraft it is. I did not get the tail # of this one so I guessed.

If you zoom in under the cockpit window you will see the logo. MD-10 I tired to zoom in but I lost all detail when I did. The MD-10 also has some other detail that are different but the MD-10 under the window is a dead give away.

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