Plane + cars circa 1970

[carlo]

Feast your eyes on this gem I picked up one of my favourite sites, Airliners net. Not only appeals to the teenage planespotter in me, but look at those cars. Think it was about 1970, Brussels airpoot.

 

[AXrescuer]

Stretched DC-8 FTW! :lol:I'm an aviation nut too!

[whitevanman]

Me too

[pompei]

Was the DC8 the one that kept crashing? (Obv not the same plane each time )Saw a Nimrod yesterday whilst out near Lincoln - are they rare now?

[Renault18]

No, it was the DC 10 that kept crashing, mainly due to the rear cargo door blowing open and the rear floor collapsing, severing the control lines to the rear engine and tail plane. However they're a great plane and actually now have one of the lowest fatality/flight ratio of most widebodied planes - including much newer designs. They were known by Canadian Pacific crews as the Douglas Death Cruiser!Yes I'm a plane nut too and I'm afraid to admit that I've got the FULL set of factory repair manuals and Flight manuals for the DC 10 series. They take up more space than my Renault collection. Anyway, back to reality - I bought a 6-year old Megane Cabriolet today for practically sod-all. And all the electric bits work!

[hotford00]

Ahh, DC8's many converted to air freight/ cargo use, UPS have quite a few as I recall from my time working at O'Hare in the 90's.

[wuvvum]

Wasn't the DC8 the first commercial airliner ever to break the sound barrier? In a steep dive obviously, but it was the first one that could do it without shaking itself to bits, wasn't it?