Sam Burns matched the third-best US Open round ever fired at Oakmont, shooting a five-under par 65 to seize a one-stroke lead ...

The Douglas DC-8 is the only subsonic commercial jet to break the sound barrier and now we have her in stunning colour thanks to French colourist Benoit Vienne. The event took place on August 21, 1961 ...

DALLAS — Today, in 1958, the legendary DC-8 performed its maiden flight from Long Beach Airport (LBG). In this post, we'll analyze this aircraft in greater detail from its inception to its first ...

After 37 years of sterling service operating a huge range of specialist research missions, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s specially modified Douglas DC-8 airliner has made its ...

The McDonnell-Douglas DC-8 was first flown in 1958 and originally designed to be a military aerial refueling tanker, but once the Douglas Aircraft Company lost the military tanker contract to then ...

Acquired by NASA in 1985, the DC-8 was used on 158 science campaigns. Credit: Matt Hartman NASA’s long-serving McDonnell Douglas DC-8-72 research aircraft flew for the final time on May 15 when ...

Douglas DC-4 (C-54C) Skymaster of the USAF. Cargo and passenger transport. A special C-54C, nicknamed the “Sacred Cow” by the White House press corps, became the first presidential aircraft, ordered ...

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 ...

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 The Douglas DC-8, one of the very first jet airliners, helped to pave the way and would be superseded by another very ...

While this is most people's recollection of how supersonic passenger travel began, that's not entirely accurate. Eight years before either the Tupolev Tu-144 or the Concorde broke the sound barrier, a ...

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The history of flight is, perhaps, one of the most astonishing stories we've ever told as a species. It's surreal to think just how fast tremendous advances in the field were made: There were ...