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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear the appeal of a California fire chief who claimed he lost his job because of his Christian faith, a case that could have made it easier for Americans ...

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 ...

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.

United Airlines and Delta Air Lines soared into the jet age last week with the first commercial flights of the Douglas DC-8. Slightly slower than the Boeing 707 (550 m.p.h. v. 540 m.p.h.). the ...