I flew most every model of the DC8. The 62's were hot rods. Probably my most favorite airliner that I've flown and I'm type rated in many. Retired now.
I'm not a pilot but I worked with a Vietnamese refugee who was a former pilot for Vietnam Airlines. (on the production line a GM engine plant! - he was probably making $7/hour) He said the DC-8 was the most beautiful and loved of all civilian airliners by the airlines crews.
One of my earliest memories of aircraft was watching a DC-8 take off from Prestwick when I was about five years old. I think It was an Air Canada, but I could be wrong. The engines screamed. The ground shook. And a little boy from Paisley was absolutely captivated. I still love the DC-8.
Sublime. I'm lucky enough to have flown the 787 back and forth from the west coast of the USA to various Asian cities and back. (Before I took the upgrade to the left seat of the 737) And as cool as the 787 is, there is something magical about a huffer cart started, four engined, three man cockpit, low-bypass turbofan intercontinental airliner leaving on a long journey. More romance and magic. No GPS, just a couple of Litton or AC Delco INS's. And a junky analog autopilot that was suspect enough to bear close watching. And galleys stuffed with much better food than what ours now contain. No CPDLC, just static-filled HF position reports every hour. No map. Just a centered HSI needle with the autopilot in NAV/INS. And a shiny, two-tone cheatline leftover from the sixties
My first flight was on a DC-8 and they gave me plastic wings which I think I still have. It was a demo flight at the LA airport (Imperial Hwy) and the flight flew to Catalina Island, made a turn east and returned to LAX for a landing on 25 left. The flights were $5.00 and designed to introduce jet travel to the public. I was hooked and watched as an El Segundo resident for years as these wonderful aircraft departed and arrived. "Kick the tires and light the fires" ! Changed our lives forever.
Fantastic vintage footage taken the summer before I began high school! Those engines on the DC-8 have a whistling sound reminiscent of those on the C-5 Galaxy.
Amazing video quality from 22 years ago, and wonderful capture from analog to digital. What a treat. I was a freshman on college sleeping in the USA when this video was shot. What a treat!
Undoubtedly the strongest airframe I've ever flown (I also flew the 707, 727 and 747), and the -62 was my personal favorite. I trained on the -21, -51 and -61 for my F/E ticket and flew (F/O and Captain) the -54F, -55F, -62, -63, -71 and -73 for more than 7,000 hours. I am also typed in a few others, but the DC-8 was special. I am also retired now, do not miss it either. One should know when it is time to pass on the mantle to a younger bunch, and I did. Now........ if I could fly the DC-8 again......... No, their time has come and gone as well, but she is a classic.
My favorite plane of all time. I still have a large framed photo on my living room wall of the left wing & engines taken high over the Pacific Ocean on May 17, 1970. Eventually I ended up as a flight engineer on the -62 like this one flying military charters all over the world. Wouldn't trade it for anything.
+Big Valley I also have a 16mm movie reel ( color ) of a DC8 take off from Newark NJ showing the starboard wing & turbofan engines with the hudson river in the background. Taken in 1967 with my dad's home movie camera. I just need to find a 16mm projector to watch it. Hard to come by these days....
My last flight in a DC8 was from BIAK to Tokio @ Anchorage-Alaska @ Iceland to Amsterdam Schiphol - Oost .... 29 hours The Netherlands Nieuw-Guinea 1962 ...
My dad used to take me to Prestwick in the 70's to watch the planes and I also remember the Air Canada DC 8. I think there was also a Canadian Pacific plane used to land there.
Indeed. But so were the 707's, back in the day. And after watching footage of the original Dash-80, with all four engines spouting pure black smoke, we've come a long way. I recall being on the observation deck, at Greater Cincinnati airport, watching the big 4-engine planes (DC-8's and 707's) coming in, and just being bombarded by stinky, black exhaust. As a little kid watching this, it was a mix of fear and exhilaration. These planes wouldn't be allowed to fly in this day and age. Awesome!
I got to fly on Air Canada Dc-8's several times back in the seventies. Got to visit the cockpit of one of them in November 1975 on a flight from Paris to Montreal - very cool.
I went plane spotting at Gatwick (near London) in the mid-70s. I saw DC-8s there. Not sure which airline - might have been the Spanish airline Iberia. Back then you could see: de Havilland Comet 4Cs, BAC 1-11s, and Sud Aviation Caravelles (with their odd triangular windows).
I remember two round trips Rio de Janeiro Caracas Miami, DC-8 33 PP-PDS, ex Panair do Brasil. Impressive descend performance with both inner engines #2 & #3 with reversers deployed in flight.
That VARIG paint job looked great on -PDS in Miami. The ejectors on those JT4A engines really looked neat too. My guess is that they used inflight reverse to get her down for the landing at Maiquetia in both directions, northbound and southbound. Northbound because Maiquetia is right on the coastal edge of mountains, and southbound because Curacao would never let you start down when it was time because of the need to handoff to the Venezuelan ATC at cruise altitude until they had you on radar, usually about 35-45 miles later than you wanted to start down. I used to fly a cargo -63 into Maiquetia for VIASA and we would land at 275,000 lbs, so it was essential to use reverse to get down because she would accelerate up to barber pole in a heartbeat and be impossible to get a high rate of descent, but I would use the reverse only after slowing to 250 or less to minimize the stress on the airframe. Those were the days! I'm retired now too.
@kenpalmer1965 The DC8-62 series first flew in 1966.... I would assume since it was at the gate and it said Japan Air Lines on it that it was indeed in regular passenger service. Japan Air Lines still flies today.
That is sad news. They were good, solid and safe planes. I had hoped that they would have fulfilled their legacy as a major courier. Perhaps they have done just that....Thanks for the information.
I suppose UPS is still flying a lot of DC-8's. FedEx fly these beautiful MD-11's in and out of Oakland everyday, right over my house. It's too bad that since that DC-10 crash in 1979, the reputation of the DC-10/MD-11 as a passenger liner went slowly downhill. They were big, comfortable widebodies to fly on. I miss the L-1011's, as well. Last time I was on a DC-8 was flying Capital Air from SF to NYC in 1982, sitting in the smoking section!
I’m told the DC-8-62 was the plane that CIA agent Tony Mendez and six of the diplomats from the U.S. embassy in Tehran boarded to escape to Switzerland during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis. However in the movie Argo, they were depicted escaping in a Boeing 747.
Air Jamaica used to fly them in the 70ties. i remember watching them as a kid at the waving point from KIN airport. They were so loud and i got a bit afraid. But it was fascinating when the engines started by "start cart" and the famous howl would occur. These days will be missed.
Cl4rendon and they were beautiful inside and out in that orange color scheme. I flew on one of them out of JFK in ‘73. I remember to this day the music playing when we boarded was (a censored version of) “The Theme from Shaft”). I remember it felt like the walk to the lavs in the -8 fuselage was about a mile long lol. And the “stewardesses” were absolutely stunning. When we came back to JFK I remember there was a gorgeous BOAC VC-10 at the gate next to us. The whole experience just seemed magical.
Was this plane still in service for Japan Air Lines during this video? Or was this airline still in existence at the time of this recording(1987)? A nice takeoff video. That is such a remarkable aircraft for its age!
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I flew most every model of the DC8. The 62's were hot rods. Probably my most favorite airliner that I've flown and I'm type rated in many. Retired now.
I'm not a pilot but I worked with a Vietnamese refugee who was a former pilot for Vietnam Airlines. (on the production line a GM engine plant! - he was probably making $7/hour) He said the DC-8 was the most beautiful and loved of all civilian airliners by the airlines crews.
14年前のコメント失礼します。
エンジン音が今は無きアメリカ空軍のC−141スターリフターにそっくりですね。横田基地から比較的近い所に住んでいるのでよく耳にしました。
One of my earliest memories of aircraft was watching a DC-8 take off from Prestwick when I was about five years old. I think It was an Air Canada, but I could be wrong. The engines screamed. The ground shook. And a little boy from Paisley was absolutely captivated. I still love the DC-8.
Sublime. I'm lucky enough to have flown the 787 back and forth from the west coast of the USA to various Asian cities and back. (Before I took the upgrade to the left seat of the 737) And as cool as the 787 is, there is something magical about a huffer cart started, four engined, three man cockpit, low-bypass turbofan intercontinental airliner leaving on a long journey. More romance and magic. No GPS, just a couple of Litton or AC Delco INS's. And a junky analog autopilot that was suspect enough to bear close watching. And galleys stuffed with much better food than what ours now contain. No CPDLC, just static-filled HF position reports every hour. No map. Just a centered HSI needle with the autopilot in NAV/INS. And a shiny, two-tone cheatline leftover from the sixties
@@francescoavila598 navigation issues don't lead to bring upside down.... That's other issues
中国民航のトライデントも映ってますね❗
DC―８ってそんなに大きく見えない。上品な大きさ。貴婦人なんですね✨
My first flight was on a DC-8 and they gave me plastic wings which I think I still have. It was a demo flight at the LA airport (Imperial Hwy) and the flight flew to Catalina Island, made a turn east and returned to LAX for a landing on 25 left. The flights were $5.00 and designed to introduce jet travel to the public. I was hooked and watched as an El Segundo resident for years as these wonderful aircraft departed and arrived. "Kick the tires and light the fires" ! Changed our lives forever.
Fantastic vintage footage taken the summer before I began high school! Those engines on the DC-8 have a whistling sound reminiscent of those on the C-5 Galaxy.
懐かしいエンジンサウンドです。現代の777等の低騒音エンジンとは全く違いますね。1970年代の羽田空港を思い出しました。
My first Atlantic crossing was on an Air Canada DC-8, in 1969. Loved it and also flew on the -63 model, first class, very nice.
DC8 takeoff, DC9 taxing and YS11 on the ramp. Now that's classic. Thank for sharing.
My Dad ferried the last of Eastern Airlines' to Japan in the Seventies. He loved that plane.
Amazing video quality from 22 years ago, and wonderful capture from analog to digital. What a treat. I was a freshman on college sleeping in the USA when this video was shot. What a treat!
It's more amazing that it's 34 years old video now, and you made your comment 12 years ago 🥳🤗
The sound of all four engines opening up is incredible! Thanks for posting!
Thanks for posting. Lovely memories of fantastically noisy airplanes built on airmanship and passion.
やはり最高に美しい機体はＤＣ８ですね。貴重な記録ありがとうございました。
Undoubtedly the strongest airframe I've ever flown (I also flew the 707, 727 and 747), and the -62 was my personal favorite. I trained on the -21, -51 and -61 for my F/E ticket and flew (F/O and Captain) the -54F, -55F, -62, -63, -71 and -73 for more than 7,000 hours. I am also typed in a few others, but the DC-8 was special. I am also retired now, do not miss it either. One should know when it is time to pass on the mantle to a younger bunch, and I did. Now........ if I could fly the DC-8 again......... No, their time has come and gone as well, but she is a classic.
Off the runway in no time at all. Faster than a 727. A very good aircraft!
My favorite plane of all time. I still have a large framed photo on my living room wall of the left wing & engines taken high over the Pacific Ocean on May 17, 1970. Eventually I ended up as a flight engineer on the -62 like this one flying military charters all over the world. Wouldn't trade it for anything.
+Stratus 262J We have a family B&W snap shot (taken from inside) of the starboard wing and two engines of an Air NZ DC-8 taken in 1966.
+Big Valley Sounds great. I also have a B&W snap shot of the starboard wing and engines of a United DC-8-50 at cruising altitude in 1966 !!
Awesome! I used to love seeing that pic pasted in one of the family albums. It was December '66.
+Big Valley I also have a 16mm movie reel ( color ) of a DC8 take off from Newark NJ showing the starboard wing & turbofan engines with the hudson river in the background. Taken in 1967 with my dad's home movie camera. I just need to find a 16mm projector to watch it. Hard to come by these days....
We can get the film converted to digital, and also add audio, if you're interested.
「これぞ、”空の貴婦人”‼」って感じのする、飛び立ち方ですね。
こんな名機、もう出てこないでしょうね。
懐かしいですね。私が上野動物園のパンダのランラン、カンカンを見に行った時に初めてこのDC-8に乗りました。その時初めてボーイング747のJA8101型を見ました。
My last flight in a DC8 was from BIAK to Tokio @ Anchorage-Alaska @ Iceland to Amsterdam Schiphol - Oost .... 29 hours The Netherlands Nieuw-Guinea 1962 ...
great enginesound
My dad used to take me to Prestwick in the 70's to watch the planes and I also remember the Air Canada DC 8. I think there was also a Canadian Pacific plane used to land there.
AC Freight was still operating the DC-8 into the 1990's
@AccessAir Thank you for your reply. It is nice to know that Japan Air Lines is still in operation today.
Fabulous sound!
Indeed. But so were the 707's, back in the day. And after watching footage of the original Dash-80, with all four engines spouting pure black smoke, we've come a long way. I recall being on the observation deck, at Greater Cincinnati airport, watching the big 4-engine planes (DC-8's and 707's) coming in, and just being bombarded by stinky, black exhaust. As a little kid watching this, it was a mix of fear and exhilaration. These planes wouldn't be allowed to fly in this day and age. Awesome!
a very amazing machine that thanks to timing hiccups n development was greatly underappreciated
This jewel makes new aircraft look like flyings turds.........
hahaha what the fuck, yea because these turds are the safest in the air, those flying coffins are responsible for the death of many... stupid boomer..
MadridHopper005
FOH punk. You definitely have no idea what you’re talking about. Fucking millenial.
Elgus 114 Thing of beauty AGREED! I flew just about every model of DC-8 (exxcept the -62!)
En el año 79 hice dos vuelos en esa compañía con dc8 - 62, de Osaka a Hong Kong y de Atenas a Paris, muy lindo recuerdo
I got to fly on Air Canada Dc-8's several times back in the seventies. Got to visit the cockpit of one of them in November 1975 on a flight from Paris to Montreal - very cool.
空の貴婦人
できるものならもう一度搭乗してみたかった。
62型はシンガポールの帰りに一度しか乗っていない、釜山からのファイナルフライトは61型のJA８０４６だったからね😢
I went plane spotting at Gatwick (near London) in the mid-70s. I saw DC-8s there. Not sure which airline - might have been the Spanish airline Iberia. Back then you could see: de Havilland Comet 4Cs, BAC 1-11s, and Sud Aviation Caravelles (with their odd triangular windows).
Classic footage thanks!
and even more classic comment
great old school sound
航空ファンに撮って貴重な映像です、久しぶりだなぁ～、あの頃の１９８２年の羽田空港冲の日本航空(JAL),墜落事故を本当に思い出すは、
I remember two round trips Rio de Janeiro Caracas Miami, DC-8 33 PP-PDS, ex Panair do Brasil. Impressive descend performance with both inner engines #2 & #3 with reversers deployed in flight.
That VARIG paint job looked great on -PDS in Miami. The ejectors on those JT4A engines really looked neat too. My guess is that they used inflight reverse to get her down for the landing at Maiquetia in both directions, northbound and southbound. Northbound because Maiquetia is right on the coastal edge of mountains, and southbound because Curacao would never let you start down when it was time because of the need to handoff to the Venezuelan ATC at cruise altitude until they had you on radar, usually about 35-45 miles later than you wanted to start down. I used to fly a cargo -63 into Maiquetia for VIASA and we would land at 275,000 lbs, so it was essential to use reverse to get down because she would accelerate up to barber pole in a heartbeat and be impossible to get a high rate of descent, but I would use the reverse only after slowing to 250 or less to minimize the stress on the airframe. Those were the days! I'm retired now too.
love the DC8
Awesome sound!!!
just listen to those engines at take off
Another classic liner，Hawker Siddeley Trident......5:52
Beautiful....!
muito bom esse vídeo. com velho ruído do dc-8.
@kenpalmer1965 The DC8-62 series first flew in 1966.... I would assume since it was at the gate and it said Japan Air Lines on it that it was indeed in regular passenger service. Japan Air Lines still flies today.
Pretty awesome!
love that aircraft!
beautiful old lady, and that sound. good video
A very LOUD plane
Very nice vid indeed ! The planes in tha apron at the end have spoilt the show, though ! LOL !
That is sad news. They were good, solid and safe planes. I had hoped that they would have fulfilled their legacy as a major courier. Perhaps they have done just that....Thanks for the information.
この機体をみると「機長、何をするんです｣の言葉を思い出してしまう。
-62は「よっこらしょ」の方が話題に。
Until about 1985-1988..they were probably all gone by the 1990S..they were obsolete even in the 1980S but were still used by KLM,SAS and JAL.
Please tell me you shot video of the Trident???
I suppose UPS is still flying a lot of DC-8's. FedEx fly these beautiful MD-11's in and out of Oakland everyday, right over my house. It's too bad that since that DC-10 crash in 1979, the reputation of the DC-10/MD-11 as a passenger liner went slowly downhill. They were big, comfortable widebodies to fly on. I miss the L-1011's, as well. Last time I was on a DC-8 was flying Capital Air from SF to NYC in 1982, sitting in the smoking section!
I’m told the DC-8-62 was the plane that CIA agent Tony Mendez and six of the diplomats from the U.S. embassy in Tehran boarded to escape to Switzerland during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis. However in the movie Argo, they were depicted escaping in a Boeing 747.
懐かしい～😢😢懐かしい 家族旅行で香港へ DC-8でしたよ
＼(^o^)／
マカオですね？
マカオ行きましたわ(笑)
Air Jamaica used to fly them in the 70ties. i remember watching them as a kid at the waving point from KIN airport. They were so loud and i got a bit afraid. But it was fascinating when the engines started by "start cart" and the famous howl would occur. These days will be missed.
Cl4rendon and they were beautiful inside and out in that orange color scheme. I flew on one of them out of JFK in ‘73. I remember to this day the music playing when we boarded was (a censored version of) “The Theme from Shaft”). I remember it felt like the walk to the lavs in the -8 fuselage was about a mile long lol. And the “stewardesses” were absolutely stunning. When we came back to JFK I remember there was a gorgeous BOAC VC-10 at the gate next to us. The whole experience just seemed magical.
What an amazing quality!
What was it recorded on?
これは貴重な映像ですね！大切に保管してほしいです
一部の-62にはモスクワ路線用にカーゴドアの取り扱い説明がロシア語で書いてある機体がありました。
Is that a Kawasaki C-1 in the background?
Was this plane still in service for Japan Air Lines during this video? Or was this airline still in existence at the time of this recording(1987)? A nice takeoff video. That is such a remarkable aircraft for its age!
Great seeing this;but a little scared around 5:09 with the thunder and lightning flash.
I wonder how long JAL used the DC-8s.
How long did JAL fly the DC-8 "Super 60s"?
They had 15 DC-8-62's in total, all were gone from the fleet by the end of 1988
What I wouldn't pay to be there!
Trident, BAC 1-11, YS-11, DC-8 - superb!
Whose was the taxiing BAC 1-11?
Masterpease
Look like bigger windows than currently used passenger jets. Is it true or just an illusion?
DC－8といえば、VIP特別機のイメージがあまりに強いです。まさに政府専用機が導入されるまで、この飛行機は使命をもって飛んでいたんですよね。
@flymajj :The 1-11 is actually a DC 9 ??!
old JAL logo
Was that a chinese De Haviland Trident parked at the end...I wonder who had the great idea to buy them...?
Oh but they do fly yet today as freighters. Hundred of them fly in and out of Miami everyday.
Lovely Plane.....as Kenneth Williams would have said.
Can you tell me what plane is at 5:50 ?
The three engined one? That is a Hawker Siddely Trident, a British made aircraft
@@tiadaid Thank you.
Brief glimpse of a beuty there , a Chinese trident .
Wouldn't engine start-up prior to pushback actually make it harder to do so?
あのジェット機は今何処へ、いずこへ？
世界一美しい飛行機だと思っています。
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look at that, DC9 - DC-8 and a Trident
+leonelp51 Thats I Tu-154 if i recall correctly
+kyler noe nah, its a trident, look at the weird extra engine used for APU and extra takeoff power, a distinctive of the trident !
leonelp51 tridents not the only trijet, Most were scrapped by the late 90's
kyler noe dude i know that, but thats a fucking trident, seriously, it is ! (no intention of being offensive, i have a foul mouth).
I saw Boeing 727 in Korea now
it hardly used any runway compared to modern planes
助走距離短くない?
Plane is too loud and a big polluter
Arent you the brainwashed joke.