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New DC-8 crew qualifications issued
For the first time in probably a long time, some DC-8 pilots earn their wings after some approaches during a check ride with the FAA Samaritan's Purse DC-8-72CF, N782SP take off, go around & landing at Willow Run, YIP 1-27-21 (www.youtube.com) Plus d'info...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Weirdly, I miss the DC-8, but don't at all miss the 707. I don't know why. I thought it was a more elegant plane. The DC-8 stretches that seemed to be a city block long were just beautiful.
I miss ALL the old birds. Even the old windmills. My first flight was on a DL DC-3!
United DC-6 for me when I was one year old. To this day I have never flown on a DC-3, I've only toured ones parked at airshows. My dad was a DC-3 pilot back in the 1940s though and I would love to experience flying in one!
Surprisingly my late mother, despite being 20 years younger than my dad, flew in a plane before he did, in a Jenny in 1931 when she was 3 years old sitting in her mother's lap! Dad didn't get his wings till 5 years later at Pensacola along some guy named Pappy Boyington!
Surprisingly my late mother, despite being 20 years younger than my dad, flew in a plane before he did, in a Jenny in 1931 when she was 3 years old sitting in her mother's lap! Dad didn't get his wings till 5 years later at Pensacola along some guy named Pappy Boyington!
I actually got to fly on a DC-2 once back in the 90's. It was a restored bird owned by the Douglas Historical Foundation. What a thrill.
Flew the 8 as EAL F/O back in the day. Went to DC-8 ground school, then flew the DC-8-63 simulator, then the DC-8-51 for flight training and finally flew the DC-8-21 on the line. The -63 was the stretch with big engines, the -51 was short airplane with medium size engines, and the -21 was the short airplane with small engines that had cable operated reversers that could be used while airborne. The anti-skid was a hole in each rudder pedal where a 'woodpecker beak' would rapidly tap on your feet when you were pushing on the brakes prior to a skid to remind you to ease up
, or else. Great ole airplane then and now!
, or else. Great ole airplane then and now!
The B-707 and DC-8 may look somewhat similar, but they were built with a whole different philosophy of system design.