I was born a decade too late to catch a ride on any stretch 8's. Hopefully some preserved examples will be around in the future for enthusiast nostalgia flights-
This one seemed to have a higher rate of climb..I remember seeing United Airlines operate a DC-8 60 ot of San Francisco Intl. in the early 80's and it had a more shallow climb rate and smoked so bad the trails would take damn near 10 minutes to disapate
@rare12inchsingles You are not alone! I love the noise and smoke! Gives me goosebumps!
I certainly hope these fine examples of the jet age keep on living wherever they can. The last potentially flyable CV-990 is now gone. Some of these machines should be preserved in flying condition with there original powerplants.
I hope nothing happens to the BUFF. The TF33's are at home there and would be a damn shame to see anything else under there wings.
No doubt!!! I know its good for the environment to have quiet engines and to have them burn clean, but I gotta say I really miss these ear blowing jets, smoke trailing.
Awesome video..love the haunting whine of those JT3Ds when they are spooling up. Worked for Air Canada Cargo in the late eighties, we had mostly 73Fs but also a couple of 63Fs. They were my favourites. Long, smokey, ear splitting takeoffs (sorry Greenpeace!) Those were REAL jetliners.
Agreed again. Love the comment about pancake sized windows on A320s, so very true. They certainly are a style-less, boring, budget version of an airliner, (especially compared to a Douglas aircraft) and if you are next to the window of an airbus the cabin curves in, good for a crinked neck. The DC-8 was innovative in many ways, and surely one of them has to be that they had the biggest windows of any jetliner.
You guys going on about airbus/Boeings are missing the point, Back in them days, you had a selection of manufactours, You dident have noise abaident procedures, You dident have hushkits, You dident have high bypass engines, And when a 1-11 or VC10 or 707 took off it would rock the ground. I miss these beautiful Aircraft where the pilots actully flew the plane on basic instruments ' Real Pilots '. Ahhh i miss the Old A/C brings a tear to my eye to see them slipping away for ever :(
Yeh, its a shame more are not at preserved, they seem to survive as a poor relation to military aicraft. They are icons of a quantum leap, while the generation before that are well represented.
Yes, the days when there was a selection, 30th May marked 50 years of the maiden flight or 'Ship One', the prototype DC-8 made her maiedn flight It's incredible that a jetliner design conceived and built during the 1950's and 1960's remains in service today .... successfully competing with modern/advanced jet equipment .... most of which were aimed at DC8/B707 replacement having both entered service and long since been retired whilst the DC-8 continues to soldier on. Happy anniversary DC-8!
@Boeing757basher07 I agree with you! im only 16, and wish i could have been around in the older days of aviation. i want to be a pilot when i grow up, but im sort of straying away, because i actually want to FLY the plane, not have a computer do it for me. plus i want to fly some of the old dc 8s and 707s.
@Boeing757basher07 While I agree i'm sure the public does not miss 300+ fatality crashes due to the bad practices and ultimately unsafe aircraft back then.
Actually, the power to weight ratio of a 707 and a DC-8 is actually a lot more than a modern Airbus for example, which are often rated as a bit underpowered, (despite bigger engines, but much bigger plane) and also this is why the 707 and DC-8, also CV880, 990 especially can fly about 1 tenth faster than most planes do now. The extra power availabale made them suitable to be loaded up with frieght. Boeing aircaft are genrally fairly good, incl now, the 777 is quite a grunty machine.
BTW, get over what?? I realised why I didnt hear you play the violin. The same reason I couldnt hear you clean your teeth. You so ignorumus el-grande full of your self, i.e so up yourself, you have to stick your toothbrush up yer ass to clean 'em.
Finally, there was no clue at all that I might be gay, you randomly said that, you must be on some good medication.... probably stops you boiling bunnies.
Thats rich, telling me to get a life, you bigoted cow, the fact that you make unfounded comments of a renowned planes classed in aviation as a thorabred, then for no reason at all attempt making personal insults calling me a fag (nothing to do with this) just shows what a pathetic escuse for a human being you must obviously be. You can stick your violin up yours. Which, if played to match your comments, would definatly be best heard played 20 miles away, and preferably underwater! Touch'e!
You are wasting my time you soulless, bigoted bitch, who has no concept in style, and a complex to attack anyone who does appreciate class. You should think what you are saying before you open you shitmixer as you obviuisly didnt read a few facts about the DC-8. Then you wouldn't be wasting your time.
Ahh, yeh ok, looked up Dr Phil, well, you can stick your plastic banal westernized TV trite right up yer **** . I never watch TV here, bad enough as it is. Such shows have no true concept of reality, (though they try to make out to be) apart from those shallow and soulless, who lack complete introspectivity, which is prevalent in the general area in which you live, it invented it.Though I see on a good side he deals with issues of racism. so maybe he might help you with your (part 2 contd)
(Pt2)bigoted homophobia which is on a par with racism. What would some upstart like you know about being gay? Not a lot,clearly. Spose you think its by choice!? Whatever. And it just happens to DC-8 revolutionised travel to this, the most isolated nation in the world, and I'm involved in hopefully saving one of ours for preservation, as unlike less substantial and robust aircraft it lasted 39 years flying. If being patriotic means I'm screwed up, as you try to purport, yes, I am, unabashedly.
Liking DC-8's... makes me gay?!? Whats that gotta do with it? Are you a homophobe? You clearly don't know what you are talking about, on either subject, and as no connection to the aicraft yes, so what? Get a life.
Thankyou, you must have read the argument further back a silly bigoted cow started shooting at me a few months back. Started off because she's made profanities at the DC-8, then started un an unrelated tangent. I just looked back and see the video clip owner has taken her vitriol off, which is good, her comments were simply unfounded bigoted puerile fatuities. Just had a dealing elsewhere with someone like that...
Whats also impressive about the DC-8, is they are faster than the average jetliner of today, have much bigger windows, which are spaced apart by a metre, and the seats correspond to each window, all far removed from today's cattle class. Many were even fitted with a bar lounge, no other in airline service jet has had that since. The DC-8 is from a time when jet travel was classy. On test in '61, a DC-8 became the only subsonic jetliner to break the sound barrier! Yup, a REAL plane!!
Plenty far worse things pollute than this classic beauty. A battle axe? Well at least many of such a type have lasted to be old, (but more like a wine) they are used in frieght service, why? Because they are known to be robust, most newer aircraft will never last that long. But there's no accounting for good taste.
I get sick of hearing that, good to see a real plane, with looks and style instead of some boring ugly heinous modern job like airbuses. It hasnt crashed so obviously its been rewired, if ther wiring was stuffed they'd have rewired it. Its lack of maintaince that is the problem for a modern plane. Long may the DC-8 fly! Thorabred.
Those where the days of aviation, where planes would deafen you on take off, Where noise abadent procedures dident exsist, and where we would see these beautiful classics gracing the skies of earth.
Yes, the DC-8s are few and far between now. Compare a beauty like this with its impressive sound, to some A320, or worse, A380 (only impressive in size) and I know which is a winner!
"only impressive in size" Dont forget the airbus performance!theres not much difference between aircraft desighn these days.boeings are starting to look more airbus like,sanitized, its probably all down to computer desighn. in regards to the sound of an airbus. not much difference from the sound of boeings. they all have similar engines.
騒音がすさまじいですね
105zitensya 2 months ago
エアバス４発機を見てるとＤＣ-８を思い出す。
enunyanyahyaku 4 months ago
27 seconds to rotation is impressive
PacificEdibleSeaweed 11 months ago 2
I was born a decade too late to catch a ride on any stretch 8's. Hopefully some preserved examples will be around in the future for enthusiast nostalgia flights-
hotelgulf 1 year ago
Hearkening back to the golden age of commercial jet transportation. Now you're riding a bus.
SFConifer 1 year ago 2
Real aircraft..real pilots...Nuff said!
edmonton67 1 year ago
Great footage! Shes still sexy almost 22 years later
KimmurielBaenre 1 year ago
DAT ASS
multicorncake 1 year ago
Great plane.
mrjimhoward 1 year ago
Was it taken on the 10th of November 1987?
stefanorso 1 year ago
Aircraft back in those days had class!
CAL2177 1 year ago
My favorite plane ever, designed truly as a passenger aircraft with no bomber tech {707/cv880} i miss them good plane.
Turksonbass 1 year ago
This one seemed to have a higher rate of climb..I remember seeing United Airlines operate a DC-8 60 ot of San Francisco Intl. in the early 80's and it had a more shallow climb rate and smoked so bad the trails would take damn near 10 minutes to disapate
rare12inchsingles 1 year ago
Some things ahould be left the same..I know the enviromentalists will scald me but I miss the smoke those low bypass jets would make.
rare12inchsingles 1 year ago 2
@rare12inchsingles Are you kidding? Hi-bypass turbofans are not just quiet and clean, they have twice the thrust and are much more efficient.
antimatterXXXIII 1 year ago
@rare12inchsingles You are not alone! I love the noise and smoke! Gives me goosebumps!
I certainly hope these fine examples of the jet age keep on living wherever they can. The last potentially flyable CV-990 is now gone. Some of these machines should be preserved in flying condition with there original powerplants.
I hope nothing happens to the BUFF. The TF33's are at home there and would be a damn shame to see anything else under there wings.
mytmousemalibu 1 year ago
感涙モノです！
ＵＰしてくれてありがとう。
TheNola65 2 years ago
because they are beautiful!
BPch1 2 years ago
Why are planes referred to as female?
SatRai 2 years ago
thats awesome quality considering it was in 1987;...
stunner629 2 years ago
great vid of a great old lady; I loved flying that old bird, and what a scream she had!
XBoeingCapt 2 years ago
So sexy. I love it!
Tugengineer 2 years ago
Great quality considering the age of the footage, classic aircraft, original audio, no commentary and no hideous soundtrack...
...the perfect video!
Thanks for sharing! 5+ stars! More please :-)
AlexS3800 2 years ago 18
My kind of jet. They measure the noise level using the richter scale!
KauaiGolfer1 2 years ago 2
No doubt!!! I know its good for the environment to have quiet engines and to have them burn clean, but I gotta say I really miss these ear blowing jets, smoke trailing.
primolilla 2 years ago
nice
KYLEAIRWAYS 2 years ago
Thats a 707
KYLEAIRWAYS 2 years ago
no that's a dc-8. JAL never had any 707's
james71089 2 years ago
Your right. I just thout it was a 707 because i have never seen a dc-8 with those engines.
KYLEAIRWAYS 2 years ago
These planes produce the most awasome sound of all modern jets.
SatRai 2 years ago 2
This comment has received too many negative votes show
Worse modern jet ever made...
besopsycho 2 years ago
Awesome video..love the haunting whine of those JT3Ds when they are spooling up. Worked for Air Canada Cargo in the late eighties, we had mostly 73Fs but also a couple of 63Fs. They were my favourites. Long, smokey, ear splitting takeoffs (sorry Greenpeace!) Those were REAL jetliners.
milehighhostie 2 years ago 2
are any of these old birds still flying?
pharbi1 2 years ago
i sure miss those old 8's!
steelgil 3 years ago
those are some clean short duct all the ones I worked on smoked like a freight train even the long duct smoked more than that.
mcy73 3 years ago
ダグラスといえば、
この飛行機ですよね。
父ちゃんが台湾に行ったとき、
このＤＣ－８に乗りました。
sakaesun1962 3 years ago
Sound of these dc8's was amazing!
SatRai 3 years ago
Miss the beautiful DC-8. Loved the Large passenger windows instead of the little pancake sized windows on Airbus A-320s
coolspindrift 3 years ago 4
Agreed again. Love the comment about pancake sized windows on A320s, so very true. They certainly are a style-less, boring, budget version of an airliner, (especially compared to a Douglas aircraft) and if you are next to the window of an airbus the cabin curves in, good for a crinked neck. The DC-8 was innovative in many ways, and surely one of them has to be that they had the biggest windows of any jetliner.
Pullisto 3 years ago 3
You guys going on about airbus/Boeings are missing the point, Back in them days, you had a selection of manufactours, You dident have noise abaident procedures, You dident have hushkits, You dident have high bypass engines, And when a 1-11 or VC10 or 707 took off it would rock the ground. I miss these beautiful Aircraft where the pilots actully flew the plane on basic instruments ' Real Pilots '. Ahhh i miss the Old A/C brings a tear to my eye to see them slipping away for ever :(
Boeing757basher07 3 years ago 21
Yeh, its a shame more are not at preserved, they seem to survive as a poor relation to military aicraft. They are icons of a quantum leap, while the generation before that are well represented.
Pullisto 3 years ago 3
Yes, the days when there was a selection, 30th May marked 50 years of the maiden flight or 'Ship One', the prototype DC-8 made her maiedn flight It's incredible that a jetliner design conceived and built during the 1950's and 1960's remains in service today .... successfully competing with modern/advanced jet equipment .... most of which were aimed at DC8/B707 replacement having both entered service and long since been retired whilst the DC-8 continues to soldier on. Happy anniversary DC-8!
Pullisto 3 years ago 3
@Boeing757basher07 I agree with you! im only 16, and wish i could have been around in the older days of aviation. i want to be a pilot when i grow up, but im sort of straying away, because i actually want to FLY the plane, not have a computer do it for me. plus i want to fly some of the old dc 8s and 707s.
iDrum63 1 year ago
@Boeing757basher07
AMEN! Thanks to the #*&*## enviormentalists and the #*&*# politicians, this era of avaition is gone forever.
vegas4170 1 year ago
@Boeing757basher07 While I agree i'm sure the public does not miss 300+ fatality crashes due to the bad practices and ultimately unsafe aircraft back then.
superskullmaster 3 months ago
old engines have so less power than the new ones but i prefer the designs on the old ones they looked better
bencaldwell08 3 years ago
Actually, the power to weight ratio of a 707 and a DC-8 is actually a lot more than a modern Airbus for example, which are often rated as a bit underpowered, (despite bigger engines, but much bigger plane) and also this is why the 707 and DC-8, also CV880, 990 especially can fly about 1 tenth faster than most planes do now. The extra power availabale made them suitable to be loaded up with frieght. Boeing aircaft are genrally fairly good, incl now, the 777 is quite a grunty machine.
Pullisto 3 years ago
I think I have seen a couple of DHL DC-8's that have had more modern high-bypass turbofans put on them. Does anyone know about this?
KCMDButcher42 3 years ago
I mean UPS not DHL
KCMDButcher42 3 years ago
BTW, get over what?? I realised why I didnt hear you play the violin. The same reason I couldnt hear you clean your teeth. You so ignorumus el-grande full of your self, i.e so up yourself, you have to stick your toothbrush up yer ass to clean 'em.
Finally, there was no clue at all that I might be gay, you randomly said that, you must be on some good medication.... probably stops you boiling bunnies.
Pullisto 3 years ago
Thats rich, telling me to get a life, you bigoted cow, the fact that you make unfounded comments of a renowned planes classed in aviation as a thorabred, then for no reason at all attempt making personal insults calling me a fag (nothing to do with this) just shows what a pathetic escuse for a human being you must obviously be. You can stick your violin up yours. Which, if played to match your comments, would definatly be best heard played 20 miles away, and preferably underwater! Touch'e!
Pullisto 3 years ago
You are wasting my time you soulless, bigoted bitch, who has no concept in style, and a complex to attack anyone who does appreciate class. You should think what you are saying before you open you shitmixer as you obviuisly didnt read a few facts about the DC-8. Then you wouldn't be wasting your time.
Pullisto 3 years ago
PS, who the hells dr Phil??
Pullisto 3 years ago
Ahh, yeh ok, looked up Dr Phil, well, you can stick your plastic banal westernized TV trite right up yer **** . I never watch TV here, bad enough as it is. Such shows have no true concept of reality, (though they try to make out to be) apart from those shallow and soulless, who lack complete introspectivity, which is prevalent in the general area in which you live, it invented it.Though I see on a good side he deals with issues of racism. so maybe he might help you with your (part 2 contd)
Pullisto 3 years ago
(Pt2)bigoted homophobia which is on a par with racism. What would some upstart like you know about being gay? Not a lot,clearly. Spose you think its by choice!? Whatever. And it just happens to DC-8 revolutionised travel to this, the most isolated nation in the world, and I'm involved in hopefully saving one of ours for preservation, as unlike less substantial and robust aircraft it lasted 39 years flying. If being patriotic means I'm screwed up, as you try to purport, yes, I am, unabashedly.
Pullisto 3 years ago
Liking DC-8's... makes me gay?!? Whats that gotta do with it? Are you a homophobe? You clearly don't know what you are talking about, on either subject, and as no connection to the aicraft yes, so what? Get a life.
Pullisto 3 years ago
Dear Pullisto It's amazing how many ignorant bigots there are in our world. Don't waste your time with the less evolved. All the best to you.
coolspindrift 3 years ago
Thankyou, you must have read the argument further back a silly bigoted cow started shooting at me a few months back. Started off because she's made profanities at the DC-8, then started un an unrelated tangent. I just looked back and see the video clip owner has taken her vitriol off, which is good, her comments were simply unfounded bigoted puerile fatuities. Just had a dealing elsewhere with someone like that...
Pullisto 3 years ago
Damn, my replies keep appearing at top. Well, if shes a battleaxe, shes a damn good looking one! Aviation art and grace.
And who are you to know all about what planes should be grounded, are you an FAA expert or a wannabe red taper?
Pullisto 3 years ago
Whats also impressive about the DC-8, is they are faster than the average jetliner of today, have much bigger windows, which are spaced apart by a metre, and the seats correspond to each window, all far removed from today's cattle class. Many were even fitted with a bar lounge, no other in airline service jet has had that since. The DC-8 is from a time when jet travel was classy. On test in '61, a DC-8 became the only subsonic jetliner to break the sound barrier! Yup, a REAL plane!!
Pullisto 3 years ago
Plenty far worse things pollute than this classic beauty. A battle axe? Well at least many of such a type have lasted to be old, (but more like a wine) they are used in frieght service, why? Because they are known to be robust, most newer aircraft will never last that long. But there's no accounting for good taste.
Pullisto 3 years ago
Hey, that plane would be a great plane to fly on. Who cares if it pollutes the sky, its an awesome aircraft.
tylermannison 3 years ago 2
I get sick of hearing that, good to see a real plane, with looks and style instead of some boring ugly heinous modern job like airbuses. It hasnt crashed so obviously its been rewired, if ther wiring was stuffed they'd have rewired it. Its lack of maintaince that is the problem for a modern plane. Long may the DC-8 fly! Thorabred.
Pullisto 3 years ago
Beautiful
Those where the days of aviation, where planes would deafen you on take off, Where noise abadent procedures dident exsist, and where we would see these beautiful classics gracing the skies of earth.
I do miss such classic noisey aircraft.
Boeing757basher07 3 years ago
i agree.
vegas4170 3 years ago
I do too. Fantastic.
chronos624 3 years ago
Yes, the DC-8s are few and far between now. Compare a beauty like this with its impressive sound, to some A320, or worse, A380 (only impressive in size) and I know which is a winner!
Pullisto 3 years ago
"only impressive in size" Dont forget the airbus performance!theres not much difference between aircraft desighn these days.boeings are starting to look more airbus like,sanitized, its probably all down to computer desighn. in regards to the sound of an airbus. not much difference from the sound of boeings. they all have similar engines.
DapperJas 3 years ago
Perhaps true, RR Trent used on 777 and A380 alike...
Pullisto 3 years ago
Light load, barely any runway used up on takeoff.
TCF40 4 years ago
I remember flying on a -61 on National way back when I was a kid.
pamperjet 4 years ago
cadillac of the skyes.
principalsuspeito 4 years ago 2
Awesome
warminator 4 years ago