In summary: McDonnell Douglas (née Douglas) built the DC-8 with four engines because the 1950s demanded it: for power, safety ...

The final Douglas DC-8 is registered as 9S-AJO. This aircraft has a manufacturing serial number of 46133 and is nearly 55.5 ...

As the largest flying science laboratory in the world, the modified Douglas DC-8 jetliner, has been used to support NASA’s Airborne Science mission since 1987.

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.

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 ...