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The DC-8-41 and DC-8-42 had weights of 300,000 and 310,000 pounds (140,000 and 140,000 kg) respectively, the 315,000-pound (142,880 kg) DC-8-43 had the 1.5° flap setting of the -33 and introduced a 4% leading-edge wing extension to reduce drag and increase fuel capacity slightly – the new wing improved range by 8%, lifting capacity by 6,600 ...
Samaritan's Purse (currently operates a converted DC-8-72CF aircraft) Saturn Airways ♠; Seaboard World Airlines ♠; Southern Air Transport (fleet included converted Super DC-8-71 and Super DC-8-73 aircraft) Skybus Cargo Charters (currently operates converted Super DC-8-72 and Super DC-8-73 aircraft) Trans Caribbean Airways ♠; Trans Continental
The DC-8 was to use the same Allison V1710s as the XB-42 [3] (these rated at 1,375 hp (1,025 kW)), [2] fitted below and immediately behind the cockpit. [2] They were to power contra-rotating propellers in the tail, [ 4 ] as in the XB-42, by way of driveshafts under the cabin floor [ 2 ] (an arrangement reminiscent of the P-39 ).
N802E was a Douglas DC-8-51.It was purchased by Delta Air Lines on September 14, 1959 and had since then accumulated a total of 23,391 flight hours. The aircraft was originally manufactured as a DC-8-11 with four Pratt & Whitney JT3C turbojets, and later modified to a model 51 with JT3D turbofan engines. [2]
DC-8-33 1961 Feb 1961 July 30, 2001 Transports Aériens Intercontinentaux; Union de Transports Aériens; Armée de l'Air; Musée de l'Air at the Paris–Le Bourget Airport in Paris, France: On static display [8] N8066U DC-8-52 1966 April 1966 1980 United Airlines: California Science Center in Exposition Park, Los Angeles, California: On static ...
A Capitol Airways DC-8-31 (N1802) crashed at Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States during crew training due to crew error; all four crew survived, but the aircraft was written off. [1] 29 June 1968 A KLM DC-8-53 on lease to Viasa (PH-DCH, named Orville Wright) was destroyed in a hangar fire at Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, Netherlands. [1]
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The aircraft involved in the accident was a McDonnell Douglas DC-8-63F (registration N782AL, serial number 45929) and was the 367th DC-8 built. It was manufactured in 1968 and previously had been owned by Canadian Pacific Air Lines, Flying Tiger Line, Worldways Canada, which leased the aircraft to Icelandair and Air Algérie in 1985. In 1990 ...