Supersonic DC-8 in stunning colour

The Douglas DC-8 is the only subsonic commercial jet to break the sound barrier and now we have her in stunning colour thank to French colourist Benoit Vienne.

The event took place on August 21, 1961, when test pilot William Magruder, copilot Paul Patten, flight engineer Joseph Tomich, and flight test engineer Richard H. Edwards took Douglas DC-8-43 no. N9604Z for a test flight at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

The DC-8 exceeded Mach 1—the only intentional supersonic flight by an airliner other than the Concorde and the Tu-144.

In an interview in 2007 with historian and former Douglas employee Bill Wasserzieher read more ⇒

Source:: AirlineRatings.Com

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