707 Vs DC8

[LR25]

Got in late in this discussion...Sorry....

If you are talking about 867BX (former ATI 63') It is living a fulfilling life of religious freedom in Sri Lanka. Flying for EXPO Air. (Which by the way, they are looking for Current DC-8 Crews)

http://www.expoavi.com/

If memory serves, that airplane had 80 or 90K hrs on it and about 50K cycles back in 97. It was a promblem child.

Atleast a whole new generation gets to cuss at it.

 

[Ken P.]

The KC-135 and the 707 are not the same airplane. The USAF bought up some 707s for the E-8s, but the 707 and KC-135 are mutually exclusive. -135 drivers get 707/720 type ratings but the respective airplanes have different fuslelages, have drastically different systems, and the -135 never had an FE.

Many 707s were acquired by the USAF for their engines which were used in the original KC-135E re-engining program which replaced the original turbojet J57 (commercial JT3C) engines with the significantly more powerful JT3D turbofans of the retired 707s. That was several years before the KC-135R re-engining program using the much more efficient CFM56. Various other 707 parts were also usable on the KC-135.