Tex Factor: Sighted Flight

FORT WORTH, Texas – On the outside, Orbis International’s MD-10 looks like a regular aircraft, but on the inside, it’s the world’s only fully accredited mobile training hospital inside an MD-10.

The Flying Eye Hospital flies around the world to not only perform vision-preserving surgeries on patients who do not have access to eye care, but also to train physicians in these countries on how to perform these surgeries themselves.

Tex Factor takes you through this amazing mid-air hospital… and you won’t see it anywhere else.

And how Alcon Laboratories in Fort Worth helped keep the flying eye hospital aloft for over 40 years.