HMN vintage photo of the day. Says pre-1974 but the cars say otherwise, more like late 1970s. There are several GM clamshells, but also a 1979 or newer Dodge St. Regis/Newport in the lower right foreground. Wish the pic were larger. There is a lot to see. https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2018/02/14/miami-florida-1970s/?refer=news
DC-10s are cool and haul ass. I flew in a couple of them. They seem to be much more stable, during turbulance, than those scary 747 jumbos. They weren't feasable, because larger jets could haul more passengers at a time. Now, they've gotten so big that Airbus was getting ready to halt production on their fattest jet, until the Emirates just placed an order for 20. Someone Photoshop in an Airbus 380, to dwarf those wagons even further
Ah National Air Lines DC-10-10's, I worked on quite a few Later Models -30's &-40's whe I wrenched for Northwest Airlines. They were good airplanes unless you had to work on the #2 (or center engine) outside on the ramp. I sometimes felt like I could work as a trapeze artist in the circus when we were up there. Our original P&W Powered -40's leaked oil at an capricious rate compared to the GE Powered -30's. When you opened up the trap door to get to the #2 engine you literally would be showered with about 2 qts of Mobil Jet Oil. We learned to wear a rain coat when opening that hatch. Years later when we had purchased used GE Powered versions we were amazed at how clean and oil free that area was. The 1st picture is from around 2000 in Detroit Metro Airport our then new 2 DC-10 Hanger with 2 Tail Dock's. What a Luxury after working on those planes for almost 20 years without a hanger big enough pull one fully into. This shot of a American Airlines DC10-10 shows the small Maintenance "pulpit" you got to work off of when not in a tail dock.
Great Picture Ivy, but that is a Airbus A-380 by the small winglet and those are not PW style Cowlings or Thrust reverser translating sleeves. I would bet that is a RR that lost its 1st stage compressor fan. But it could be an Engine Alliance product that is basically a joint venture between GE & PW. The only pure Front hub failures I remember were all on GE large Bypass engines (not counting bird or foreign object damage) Su City Iowa DC-10 Crash comes to mind. Back to the original picture I say it was taken 1973-74 time frame, I see a 73-77 Pontiac GP and a Square Bodied Nova 74-79, That and the fact that National Airlines did not take delivery of their 5th ( of 16 total ) until October of 1972 it eliminates any possibility of it taken before late 1972. And I suspect it would actually be much later as you usually can't afford to have all of your large fleet sitting on the ground during the day. I suspect it was actually taken when the DC-10 fleet was grounded June-July 1979 for inspection & modifications to the Wing engine Pylons after the American Airlines Chicago Crash. Or early 1980 when National Stop Flying. I also see that they had the same issue working on their DC-10's as we did in Detroit, they could not pull the back of the aircraft into a hanger due to height restrictions.
Not far from where I work, my company has also done a few constructions job in there, is a GE Aviation factory. Amazing to see. No assembly lines. each person has a station and builds the engine from start to finish. Then shipped to Cleveland for testing, then onto the Boeing factory.
I heard about that. My niece Sarah, her husband is fourth- generation at the Lazy B Ranch. It assures that only one person is responsible for any problems that come up.
