McDonnell-Douglas KC-10 Extender PDF eBook + Aircraft Flight Manuals

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January 2002

The Great DC-10 Disaster
Douglas A-1 Skyraider: Overnight Revamp
Conclusion of Burnelli’s Flying Wings

February 2002

Behind the capture of the first flyable FW-190
Resurrecting the Douglas DC-10
Vought XF5U: The Navy’s Forlorn Flying Saucer Fighter
Handley Page’s Flying “Frying Pan”

July 2005

History of InFlight Refueling – From C-1 to KC-10
WWI ACE! Fighter pilot from the past
Tail Design – The long and short of it

Manuals & Photos

KC-10A Flight Manual
KC-10A Flight Manual Performance Data
KC-10A Air Refueling Procedures
KC-10A Cargo Loading Manual
KC-10A Check Flight Procedural Manual
KC-10A Minimum Equipment List
KC-10A Two Engine Ferry
KC-10A Weight Checklist & Loading Data
KC-10A Pilot & Flight Engineer’s Emergency Procedures
KC-10A Pilot & Flight Engineer’s Normal Procedures
KC-10A Boom Operator’s Emergency Procedures
KC-10A Boom Operator’s Normal Procedures
Photos of the McDonnell-Douglas KC-10 Extender

McDonnell-Douglas KC-10 Extender

KC-10A Specifications
Variants
Cutaway
Videos

General Characteristics

McDonnell-Douglas KC-10 Diagram

Crew: 4 (Aircraft Commander, copilot, flight engineer, and boom operator)
Capacity: 170,000 lb of cargo, 25 pallets and 16 passengers, or 17 pallets and 75 passengers
Length: 181 ft 7 in (55.35 m)
Wingspan: 165 ft 4.5 in (50.406 m)
Height: 58 ft 1 in (17.70 m)
Wing area: 3,958 sq ft (367.7 m²)
Airfoil: root: DSMA-496/-521/-522; tip: DSMA-519/-520
Empty weight: 241,027 lb (109,328 kg)
Gross weight: 590,000 lb (267,619 kg)
Max takeoff weight: 590,000 lb (267,619 kg)
Fuel capacity: 365,000 lb (165,561 kg)
Powerplant: 3 × General Electric F103 (GE CF6-50C2) turbofan engines, 52,500 lbf (234 kN) thrust each

Performance

Maximum speed: 538 mph (866 km/h, 468 kn)
Maximum speed: Mach 0.89
Range: 4,400 mi (7,100 km, 3,800 nmi) with a maximum passenger capacity; 3,800 nmi (7,038 km; 4,373 mi) with maximum cargo capacity.
Ferry range: 11,500 mi (18,500 km, 10,000 nmi)
Service ceiling: 42,000 ft (13,000 m)
Rate of climb: 6,870 ft/min (34.9 m/s)

KC-10A: Initial military tanker version based on the DC-10-30CF.
KDC-10: Conversion of DC-10-30CF aircraft to tanker/transport configuration. While a FMS program run through McDonnell Douglas, conversion of two aircraft was carried out by KLM. Omega Aerial Refueling Services operates KDC-10-40.
KC-10B: After McDonnell Douglas did the KDC-10 conversion for the Royal Netherlands Air Force in 1992, they proposed a tanker/transport version of the MD-11CF which had the in-house designation KMD-11. MDC offered either conversion of second hand aircraft (KMD-11) or new build aircraft (KC-10B), the proposed KMD-11 offered 35,000 lbs more cargo capacity and 8,400 lbs more transferable fuel than the KC-10A. It was offered to the RNAF and Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) in the 1990s and the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) in the early 2000s.