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Tristar and DC-10 were built to meet the same design task:

On a hot summer day, they had to take off from La Guardia notoriously short runway with full payload and fuel for trip, with safety margin for one engine out

and on a hot summer day, they had to take off from Denver, with full fuel and payload, and in case of one engine out, still cross the Rockies.

Both Lockheed and Douglas started to design twinjets towards those targets in 1966 or so, then gave up trying and chose trijets.

A300 program started 1966-1967, simultaneously with Tristar and DC-10 - and they stuck to twin.

Later on, Boeing joined the twin widebody production with 767.

Can A300 meet the La Guardia and Denver requirements? Can B767? What about A330? Or B777?

Dont know quite what this has to do with 3D design??

.mic

Dont know quite what this has to do with 3D design??

.mic

Does not and does not need to.

The topic of the forum is "Aircraft & 3D Design" So, it is Aircraft Design and 3d Design.

This obviously has to do with Aircraft Design. How did Lockheed and Douglas go about meeting restrictive airpord performance requirements? And how did/do Airbus and Boeing?

Does not and does not need to.

The topic of the forum is "Aircraft & 3D Design" So, it is Aircraft Design and 3d Design.

This obviously has to do with Aircraft Design. How did Lockheed and Douglas go about meeting restrictive airpord performance requirements? And how did/do Airbus and Boeing?

Well, the option of having that extra third engine in the tail, helps significantly. If you could calculate the thrust provided by the eninges in relation to aircraft weight, it's easily has enough power to fly a consederble distance.

Other then the wide body availabillity of landing at La Guardia, that's something you can actually test in Flightsim. If you really can try and download the performance sheets of those aircraft and look at max takeoff runway distance ect. that would easily answer you question wheather the aircraft mentioned can make it out of that airport.

For the record, this forum is dedicated to virtual aircraft design. As in, aircraft design in terms of 3D modelling, etc.

If you have a question about actual real-world aircraft design, then the "Real Aviation" forum located southwards is what you're looking for.

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