Al is a great guy and the Orbis project is a worthy one. I know most of the people flying it. They are slowly transitioning from United to FedEx and UAL has no DC10s now. Fedex is doing the sim checks now and slowly they'll take it all. The current airplane is theirs also after the transition from the DC-8 that UAL gave.
I toured the airplane in Taipei a few months ago. One of the pilots Jim Nugent (retired) gave me a tour. They were on a fund raising tour.
Jim Morehead
Now UAL retired myself