Boeing Super 80??!!??

[Typhoon1244]

I love the way the 707 is touted as the most successful and revolutionary alirliner of all time. A giant leap forward for technology, for travel...for mankind.

And they're all gone.

And Douglas DC-8's are everywhere!



(No disrespect intended toward you KC-135 drivers...but that's not the same thing.)

 

[LR25]

The 8

Agreed, the 8 is going into the history books for being in service for a long time. In 2006 it will have been flying for 50 years.

When I was at Air Transport International awhile back as a mechanic, we had a DC-8-63 that had 89,000 hours and something like 45000 cycles, some of you may know the airplane, it wasnt the best in the fleet but we coaxed that thing out every night, legally I might add.

The 707's have there place, but its no comparison to the 8 and what it can do.

I still love seeing the the 4 black smoke trails.

 

[Huck]

There's some 707's operating in Africa still....

And Boeing does own the right to screw up, unfortunately. Airbus is coming out with the A-330F next year, and it will be the next Big Thing in the freight world. DC-10-30 loads with 14 hour range on 2 engines. Boeing is missing the boat in the freight world - we can't all fly -400's!

 

[SDF2BUF2MCO]

Well if Boeing uses that same logic and they buy out Cessna I can brag to all my non-flying friends that I fly Boeings (1)72's !

 

[LR25]

OK then, I really like those Raytheon BE-18's, there the best.

 

[Typhoon1244]

How does "Raytheon Bonanza" grab you? Does "Lockheed F-16 Fighting Falcon" p_ss you off as bad as it does me? Ever been for a ride on a "Boeing DC-3?" How many of you remember when the "Boeing F-4 Phantom II" ruled the skies?

Ever read 1984? Do you suppose Boeing has hundreds of employees in little cubicles, crossing "McDonell" and "Douglas" out of all the history books and airline timetables and substituting "Boeing?"

The first person that stands in front of me, points at a passing four-engined U.P.S. bird and says "look at the Boeing DC-8" is getting slapped.