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.

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