When we think of McDonnell Douglas, we often picture robust airliners almost entirely lost to time today. But many of these ...

Post-1945, Douglas Aircraft Corporation acknowledged an opportunity to meet the high demand for airline aircraft by recognizing the future of commercial flying in jet-powered aircraft following ...

The rise of jet airliners was part of the driving force of this change. The Douglas DC-8, one of the very first jet airliners, helped to pave the way and would be superseded by another very ...

Edwards took Douglas DC-8-43 no. N9604Z for a test flight at Edwards Air Force Base in California. The aircraft exceeded Mach 1—the only intentional supersonic flight by an airliner other than ...

His home was a Douglas DC-8 and was widely known as the DC-8 Airplane Home, Red’s home sweet home, an artists’ hangout, and the place you could go to for a good time, with guitar-playing and ...

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 acquired the four-engined ...

Despite flying relatively few hours, the DC-8 has become hard to support. Credit: NASA After several years of studying various replacement options for its venerable McDonnell Douglas DC-8-72 ...

Myer, Virginia. Donald W. Douglas holding a prototype model of the DC-8, circa 1955. [Courtesy: museumofflying.org] In 1912, Douglas left the U.S. Naval Academy and took a position in the civil ...