tonytales @51, thanks for that very interesting information re turbine reversers...I remember seeing early DC-10s with some sort of vane at the aft end of the hot section exhaust that looked much like those on the L-1011; hard to imagine they'd have had much better results than P&W after your description of all that had to work well in that sort of temperature environment! Good intentions but in the end not worth the $$ or mechanical headaches it seems.
Yes the -100 series airplanes even with -7A mills had rather stately climb profiles. I did enjoy flying them though.