48hr Photo Comp: Fly Douglas Jets

[Hammy]

Genuinely surprised to have come out on top in the Raspberry Ripple thread. Seeing as it’s the 50th anniversary of the McDonnell Douglas DC-10’s maiden flight later this year, I’d like to see your best shots of Douglas and McDonnell Douglas jets. For clarity: DC-8, DC-9, C-9, DC-10, KC-10, MD-11 and MD-80/90 are all acceptable.

Here’s a Scandinavian Airlines Mad Dog to kick things off:



Ta,

Martin

[jalfrezi]

I wish I had more shots of these aircraft!

McDonnell Douglas KDC-10-30CF - 20 by Nick Jennings, on Flickr

Douglas C-9B Skytrain II - 02 by Nick Jennings, on Flickr

McDonnell Douglas KC-10A Extender - 03 by Nick Jennings, on Flickr

[Tuckat]

img814 by Phil Roberts, on Flickr

img816 by Phil Roberts, on Flickr

img884 by Phil Roberts, on Flickr

[LN Strike Eagle]

[AndyXH558]

This is the only one ive got to hand, taken in golden light in 2012 at Mertyl avenue. bw_5 by andrew abbott, on Flickr

[Domvickery]

403 by justdom1, on Flickr

RAF Mildenhall 27-03 051 by justdom1, on Flickr

BHX 22-Feb 184 by justdom1, on Flickr

[Draken]

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[Blackbird]

My three in sequence, DC-8,9,10.
I know I posted this recently in the "On this Day" thread, but she is such a beauty I thought it worth posting again
Douglas DC-8-53 Sarigue F-RAFE / 45570 by Andrew Shaw, on Flickr

Mild 01 C-9_edited-1 by Andrew Shaw, on Flickr

Mildenhall 1995 KC-10 82-0191 by Andrew Shaw, on Flickr

Andy

[Wrexham Mackem]

I'll go back into the archives for this one too.

[PeterR]

Great theme Martin, and some lovely archive material posted so far! Mine are all very modern by comparison...

Very apt for the theme, taken on the last day at KLM MD-11 operations in November 2014, with special markings applied to the aircraft to commemorate the airline's long history with Douglas & McDonnell Douglas aircraft types.


A classic American "Mad Dog", seen departing from Chicago O'Hare in 2012.


And finally, a shot from an epic four days spent at Birmingham Airport when this Bangladeshi Dinosaur came to town for the weekend!

[CJS]

2 from me, all from RIAT 2013, all of the same airframe from the RNAF. Such a beautiful sunny day and yes, I was trying to be clever with the F-16 being in shot too.


DSC_4900 by Chris Strawson, on Flickr


DSC_4899 by Chris Strawson, on Flickr

[Spiny Norman]

From a visit to Gatwick in 1984.

British Caledonian DC-10 (my favourite scheme they flew in, though not done justice being scanned from a 5x3.5 print!)





Bit more recent. KC-10 getting airborne at RIAT, of course, in 1997 I think it was.

[capercaillie]

OK one each from me
DC8-63 from Rich International landing at Fairford in 1994 in support of a deployment of eight Illinois ANG F-16s
img341 by Paul Downes, on Flickr

C-9B Skytrain II of the SOES US Marine Corps, one of two then in service in its original gorgeous hi viz scheme at its home base Cherry Point in April 1995
img339 by Paul Downes, on Flickr

KC-10A Extender in lovely original scheme, last I saw like this, arriving in a rare sunny break at Fairford IAT 1991
img498 by Paul Downes, on Flickr

[SuffolkBlue]

Not too much variety from me!


United States Air Force McDonnell Douglas KC-10 Extender - RAF Mildenhall, Suffolk, Friday 11th May 2018 by Chris Day, on Flickr


Western Global Airlines McDonnell Douglas MD-11F - RAF Mildenhall, Monday 27th March 2017 by Chris Day, on Flickr


Royal Netherlands Air Force McDonnell Douglas KDC-10 - RIAT 2015, Sunday 19th July 2015 by Chris Day, on Flickr

[Tommy]

And finally, a shot from an epic four days spent at Birmingham Airport when this Bangladeshi Dinosaur came to town for the weekend!

[Hammy]

Thanks to Andy for the kick up the arse to remind me I'm meant to be judging this - not that it matters as Tom's done my job for me. There's no topping Peter's shot of the Binman roaring out of Birmingham as far as I'm concerned.

Dan's shot of the VARIG MD' a very close second - a fantastic combination of livery and aircraft that I sorely miss.

Ta/Sorry(!),

Martin

[AndyXH558]

Definitely agree. That's a gorgeous pic

[PeterR]

Thanks Chaps! As I said in the original post, a memorable and historic few days spent shooting S2-ACR from a variety of locations around BHX.

New topic coming soon...