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The initial DC-8-11 model had the original wingtips used on the prototype, and all remaining DC-8 Series 10 aircraft were upgraded to DC-8-12 standard. The DC-8-12 featured new low-drag wingtips and leading-edge slots, 80 inches long between the engines on each wing and 34 inches long inboard of the inner engines. These unique devices were ...
The Douglas DC-8 was an American piston-engined airliner project by Douglas Aircraft. A concept developed more than a decade before the DC-8 jetliner , the piston-engined DC-8 was to have propellers in the tail, an idea first used at Douglas by Edward F. Burton on a fighter project. [ 1 ]
Aircraft Type Photograph Build date First flight Last flight Operator Location Status Notes Ref. JA8001 DC-8-32 April 18th, 1960 July 16th, 1960 June 1974 Japan Air Lines: Haneda Airport, Tokyo, Japan: On static display Named "Fuji" by Japan Air Lines: N220RB DC-8-21 1958 Jan 1959 April 15, 1994 Douglas Aircraft Company; United Airlines ...
The aircraft involved was N814CK, a McDonnell Douglas DC-8-61(F) manufactured in December 1969. Originally configured for passenger service, in 1991 it was sold to AIA and converted into a freighter. The aircraft had accumulated 43,947 flight hours and 18,829 flight cycles at the time of the accident.
VASP (fleet included former Air Canada Cargo Super DC-8-73 aircraft) Canada. Air Canada [2] (fleet included converted Super DC-8-73 aircraft operated by Air Canada Cargo) Canadian Pacific Airlines [3] ♠ (later renamed CP Air) Minerve Canada; Nationair Canada; Nordair (fleet included converted Super DC-8-71 aircraft) Points of Call Airlines ...
The pilot of the DC-7 was killed and the C-123 Provider was damaged by fire. The DC-7 was repaired and placed back into service. [7] March 30, 1967: Delta Air Lines Flight 9877, a Douglas DC-8, crashed during a training exercise near New Orleans. The improper use of flight and power controls by both instructor and the Captain-trainee during a ...
Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 was a Cuban flight from Barbados to Jamaica that was brought down on 6 October 1976 by a terrorist bomb attack. [3] All 73 people on board the Douglas DC-8 aircraft were killed after two time bombs went off and the plane crashed into the sea.
Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA) Flight 831 was a flight from Montréal–Dorval International Airport to Toronto International Airport on November 29, 1963. About five minutes after takeoff in poor weather, the jet crashed about 32 km (20 mi) north of Montreal, near Ste-Thérèse-de-Blainville, Quebec, Canada, killing all 111 passengers and seven crew members.