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...precisely 3:20 p.m. one day last week, a Swissair DC-10 with 125 passengers aboard lifted off from Zurich's Kloten airport for a flight that ended, uneventfully, 4% hours later in Tel Aviv. Almost simultaneously, many more of the U.S.-built, tri-engine wide-bodies were taxiing to runways all over Europe. By week's end 13 European lines, including such prestigious carriers as Lufthansa, SAS, Alitalia and KLM, had put their 58 DC-10s back into the air. Though their decision brought cheers from the plane's beleaguered manufacturer, McDonnell Douglas...
...they cite the hydraulic systems. The DC-10 has three, whereas the Lockheed TriStar has four and the Boeing 747 has five. The DC-10 places its hydraulic lines along the leading-and more exposed-wing edge, rather than in the trailing edge, where the 747's and Tri-Star's are located. Critics also claim the hydraulic lines under the DC-10's cabin are more vulnerable than the systems of the other two jets. The FAA could decide that more redundant systems should be built into the DC-10-a process that would be time...
...track team elected juniors Tom Lenz, Joe Salvo and Thad McNulty as tri-captains for next year's indoor and outdoor seasons...
...Crimson varsity linksters upped their season record to 8-4 yesterday by splitting a "down-to-the-wire" tri-match against Holy Cross and Williams at the Taconic Country Club in Williamstown...
...thinclads took second in a tri-meet Saturday in Hanover, N.H., with 65 points, four behind Dartmouth and seven ahead of Brown...