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Old Oct 30, 2007 | 8:57 am
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Originally Posted by robsawatsky
You mean other than:

DC-10 and MD-11 aren't the same plane
DC = Douglas Corporation
MD = McDonnell Douglas
McDonnell Aircraft merged with Douglas Aircraft in 1967 (http://www.boeing.com.au/History/douglas.html)

The DC-10 was first introduced in 1968, a full year after the merger (http://www.boeing.com/commercial/dc-10/index.html)

The "DC" nomenclature was merely following the tradition of the DC-2, DC3, etc.

The MD-11 was launced in 1986 (http://www.boeing.com/commercial/md-11family/index.html) and I clearly recall the "unspoken" reason was because all of the fatal crashes.
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