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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 McDonnell Douglas DC-9 is an American five-abreast, single-aisle aircraft designed by the Douglas Aircraft Company. It was initially produced as the Douglas DC-9 prior to August 1967, after which point the company had merged with McDonnell Aircraft to become McDonnell Douglas .
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 Douglas DC-7 is an American transport aircraft built by the Douglas Aircraft Company from 1953 to 1958. A derivative of the DC-6 , it was the last major piston engine-powered transport made by Douglas, being developed shortly after the earliest jet airliner—the de Havilland Comet —entered service and only a few years before the jet ...
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Douglas Aircraft also studied a smaller double-decker design in the 1960s for the aircraft that would eventually become the DC-10. [5] [6] The first flight of the MD-12 was to take place in late 1995, with delivery in 1997. [3] Despite aggressive marketing and initial excitement, especially in the aviation press, no orders were placed for the ...