Originally Posted by Bucking Bar

That's because at Douglas, a lot of thought went into the toilet.

Nearly no thought went into the:

• Wing - oh we already have one of those
• Flight Controls - worked in 1960, it will work today
• Brakes - carry over
• Nose Wheel Steering - see brakes
• Engines - Gulfstream's got that worked out - just copy their data and send it in
• Avionics - Hey what did we do with that MD-11 stuff that didn't sell? Well, use it.
• Hydraulics - we're proud of the fact you don't need the system, but we stuck some DC-10-30 parts in there for good measure, what could go wrong?

The toilet was new, probably because they had to stick a smoke detector in there and decided to finally get rid of the honeybucket on cave wall drawings they were using. Around Douglas, that's exciting stuff! I mean, in Chariots of the Gods they thought this was an ancient astronaut. They just got the orientation wrong ... it is really supposed to be a First Officer looking through a periscope to ensure the mains are down following a hydraulic failure with all the passenger's carry ons piled on top.