As a result, Douglas invested more than $3 million and 250,000 work hours in the DC-8 project. The DC-8 stands out in a unique position; it was initially developed as a USAF tanker for air-to-air ...

McDonnell Douglas then issued variants on the DC-10 that could go the distance. The DC-10-10 model was followed by the DC-10-30 and DC-10-40 models, both of which had dramatically improved range ...

News, Reviews, Release Date, Trailers, Gameplay and more for Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition - McDonnell Douglas DC-8 Series 10 - 40 ...

The McDonnell-Douglas DC-8 was first flown in 1958 and originally designed to be a military aerial refueling tanker, ...

The aircraft, which NASA describes as the “largest flying science laboratory in the world”, is a specially modified McDonnell Douglas DC-8-72 passenger jet.

NASA’s long-serving McDonnell Douglas DC-8-72 research aircraft flew for the final time on May 15 when it was delivered to Idaho State University in Pocatello, where it will be used to train ...

A leading U.S. airline donated a McDonnell Douglas DC-8-21 to a charity that configured it as a flying eye hospital as well as a classroom for teaching. The charity began its work in 1982 to teach ...

Red’s home started out as N8605 45426/49 DC-8-21, the 49th of the 556 units of the McDonnell Douglas DC-8 produced, a narrow-bodied long-range airliner built in the U.S. by American Douglas ...

The DC-10 jet was McDonnell Douglas Corporation's most controversial plane, given the bad luck that seemed to follow it. The aircraft was built to replace the DC-8 quad jet, thanks to its long ...

The aircraft came about in this form, as a derivative of the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 back in 1981, in the workshops of Boeing. The plane is powered by a total of three General Electric turbofan ...

BW: Tell me about the supersonic DC-8 flight. RHE: That was Bill Magruder’s idea. Very smart—get it out there, show the airplane can survive this and not fall apart.