Douglas DC-8 Jetliner Promo Film - 1958 

Agree

Centurion Rog Still is, but I know what you mean, Wright Flyer, USAF (1968-1972).

Delta was first to fly the DC-8, and flew every Douglas airplane from the DC-2 right up to the MD-11.

The CFM56 engines were fitted to the extra-long "Super 60" series (the -62 had only a slight stretch compared the -61 and -63), resulting in the "Super 70."

I had an airline office in the old "bomb shelter" building just south of the black tower on Lakewood Blvd, for years! Great company, great people, spot-on!

My father was a foreman in the Quality Control Dept. approx '64 - '68. He worked on the 8 and the 9.

In my view, the DC-8 and the A340 are the most beautiful! I love the MD-11 as it was the finest large airplane I ever flew as a pilot.

@@alexp3752 the triple 7 is a good looking jet as well.

+MrShobar And then the MD-11 ditched the company altogether.

I know your post was 6 months ago but you state the DC-10 was a flying incinerator. Care to explain or back that up with an actual example. The DC-10 has had fifteen (15 ) fatal crashes in its recorded history. Not one of these crashes was due to an in flight fire. You may be referring to the in flight fire of the Swissair flight 111 near Nova Scotia but that was an MD-11. The on board fire was attributed to a new inflight entertainment system (video screens) that overloaded the electrical system and caused fire to spread in the overhead circuit breaker panel in the cockpit. But I digress. The 747 on the other hand has had twenty eight (28) fatal crashes recorded. However, none of that proves anything about either aircraft since pilot error accounts for most of the crashes with mechanical failure second, and weather and terror attack trailing last. Both the DC-10 and the 747 were/are fantastic commercial aircraft. As bad as any crash is, 43 crashes combined over nearly fifty years is an incredible safety record considering the billions of passenger miles and millions of combined cycles. The DC-10 was in many ways superior to the 747 and was preferred by passengers for comfort in many airline surveys. I worked in aircraft maintenance nearly 30 years as an A&P mechanic. I have worked on the following aircraft: DC-9 21, DC-9 51, DC-10 30, DC-10 30ER, AIrbus 310, AIrbus 320, Airbus 300, Boeing 747 200 & 300, Fokker 100 and the MD-11.

"The DC-10 was in many ways superior to the 747 and was preferred by passengers for comfort in many airline surveys." LOL.

Nice technical answer there Shobar. I'm still waiting for some sort of proof the DC-10 was a flying incinerator. I guess LOL is all you got.

Eric Mowrey he wont admit he's wrong. Douglas should have ditched the D.C.10 when they began with the md11, as Boeing abandoned the 747 for the 777.

McDonnell and Douglas designed the F-15 and brought the Md-80s also amazing planes..

What was wrong about the wing?

There are still DC8's flying....

+JJ Thomas " Boeing was stuck with one fuselage length due to the design" Actually, part of Boeing's success was their willingness to manufacture "one off", special fuselage length aircraft for specific customers, like the 707-138B for Qantas.

+JJ Thomas Actually Boeing did the same as Douglas did some years before, when Douglas launched the DC-2. Clearly inspired by the Boeing 247 and improved where necessary. And launched at the right moment. In the thirties Douglas got it all right, in the fifties Boeing did.

Boeing had used a 35 degrees sweep, giving the 707 an economical cruise of Mach 0.83. Douglas had promised a speed of mach 0.83 with a more modest wing sweep of 30 degrees (means slower landing speed, easier to land) using a special wing shape developed by NACA. After the DC-8 first flight, it can only cruise economically up to Mach 0.79 and the range is shorter than promised. Pan Am was not happy and decided to buy more Boeing 707 instead.

Jet engines period are smokey and loud. It's the high bypass turbofan that finally made emissions and noise drop. The black smoke is from water-methanol injection creating cooler temps to run the engines harder. This also cools the flame leaving unburned fuel in the exhaust and thus black smoke.

DA FUQ?

No one knows what the fuq you talking about, whack job!

There's a handful of those parked in Roswell Industrial Air Center, Roswell, NM...

Emery Air Freight had a number of the CFM engined DC8's. Very powerful indeed.