DC8 Flyby at Biggin Hill

DC8 Flyby with wheels up and at 50 feet. Finishes with a wingtip wave goodbye. Note the two Russian Sukoi SU-27's on the apron.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• DC8
• Biggin
• Hill
• Flyby
• aircraft
• flying
• display

[KauaiGolfer1]

That's an ex-UAL airplane. I'm sure my Dad had some time in the left seat of that bird.

[9cole9]

@KauaiGolfer1 Bet he has got some great memories

[AntonioSantiago]

is this an Orbis plane???

[9cole9]

Hi, yes it was the Orbis eye hospital. Apparently the DC8 is now in a Chinese Museum

[oisiaa]

When was this?

[9cole9]

It was the early 90's. I cant remember what year.

[Anthrax92007]

gotta love those trails of smoke coming out of those TurboJets... Die Hippies!

[jonny2387]

relax qwertdr, just because you don't have any taste when it comes to aviation doesn't mean you have to get all upset.

[whatchamacallit6]

diesel 8

[58Vulcan]

Loved the approach good pilot,no risk to anyone

[dergrossen]

@Coaljet Yes indeed! Airbus has already began to realise this truth. Thank you for putting your thoughts into words. AF 447 in memory of.

[Coaljet]

@dergrossen Nowadays, everything is run by a politically correct, bean counter mentality: the sort of cowboy originality is not tolerated anymore. The result is a policy-driven sterility that admonishes imagination and originality--things that can't be controlled. I agree that hands-on piloting, an in-depth "feel" for the machine, are indispensable qualities. So long as a pilot doesn't behave recklessly, he shouldn't be shafted for something like what we see here.

[Prickler32]

@AccessAir Be glad it's just an old DC8 they are taking and not your entire airforce which they have also already paid for :-)

[AccessAir]

@9cole9 Why the heck a Chinese Museum??? I know they own almost all the debt in the US but why an old DC8????

[Wingle23]

@9cole9

It was 1993.

[nygge79]

This could be a movie of the last farwell from the queen of sky. But this movie is from the early 90´s, while this beautiful queen of sky were still in service for cargo/commercial airliners. As a little notise, the last DC 8 were delive to SAS(I´m from the little country Sweden). After 556 plane buile, the last one was deliverid to SAS as Tord Viking, SE-DBL, leased to Scanair in early 1982. Nowaday´s you´ll nerver see a DC 8 in Sweden