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Aviation Nostalgia Forum | The DC-8 howl
1 - by whitehatter 
6539 posts -
on Sunday 6th November, 2011 at 19:16 GMT
This post was edited on Sunday 6th November, 2011 at 19:17 GMT
I regularly watch this vid at Youtube as it's got something that is so rare nowadays and was worth standing for hours on top of a wet,dark T1 car park at MAN for. Aviaco used to send in their DC-8s on charter services to places like Palma, and these aircraft were cascaded from the Iberia longhaul fleet. The startup sequence of the DC-8 Super Sixty was like nothing else, an unearthly howl as pressurised air hit the turbine section to spin the engines up. CP Air would also send their stretched DC-8s in as well as a few charter aircraft to and from Canada. This vid of a Japan Asia Airways has excellent sound and brings back memories of the quad jet we used to think of as being the most exotic of them all.
The engine start begins at about 2.10
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2 - by EmmasDad 835 posts -
on Sunday 6th November, 2011 at 21:01 GMT
Great memories WH, remember the Worldways and Spantax ones too.
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3 - by whitehatter 6539 posts -
on Sunday 6th November, 2011 at 23:11 GMT
The Coronados were a bit noisy and smoky too, but it's the Saturday night specials I remember the most.
There was a new player in town using the old planes at third tier carriers called Airtours, aiming for the end of the market that Clarksons and the rest had operated in. Cheap and cheerful. I dropped some friends off one evening then went up to the top of the car park and was surprised to see their Aviaco flight was a stretched DC-8 for a two hour hop over to Palma. Nowadays you would kill to get on a trip like that....
There was a new player in town using the old planes at third tier carriers called Airtours, aiming for the end of the market that Clarksons and the rest had operated in. Cheap and cheerful. I dropped some friends off one evening then went up to the top of the car park and was surprised to see their Aviaco flight was a stretched DC-8 for a two hour hop over to Palma. Nowadays you would kill to get on a trip like that....
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