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 ...

Since 1987, a highly modified McDonnell Douglas DC-8 aircraft has been a workhorse in NASA’s Airborne Science Program (ASP) – see Photo 1. The aircraft, located at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 The Douglas DC-8, one of the very first jet airliners, helped to pave the way and would be superseded by another very ...

The Douglas DC-8 is an early long-range four-engined narrowbody jet introduced in the late 1950s. During the period when jet engines were just entering the commercial aviation market, the Douglas DC-8 ...

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The Douglas DC-3 is a propeller-driven aircraft, and one that was introduced into a world of aviation that is very different to the one we know today. Since it made its very first flight in 1935 ...