Dc-8mechanic - DC-8

1969 McDonnell Douglas DC-8 landing at McCarran International, Las Vegas

Loftleidir was the original low cost of the Atlantic. It was a popular carrier with backpackers and students. With a basic onboard service and a small, easy to connect airport, the airline was a good choice to connect both sides of the ocean.

More of my aviation art works in progress. This is a United Airlines Douglas DC-8 Series 62 (Super 62) in United’s Friendship colors used in the late 1960s and early 1970s. For the longest time most jet services to Hawaii were only from the West Coast (and mostly San Francisco and Los Angeles at that), but in the late 1960s a new breed of long range jet aircraft in the form of the Douglas DC-8 Super 62 (my art here) and the Boeing 707-320B/C, the DC-8’s main competitor, opened up nonstop routes to Hawaii from US cities outside of the traditional West Coast gateways. United Airlines used the long range performance of the DC-8 Super 62 to launch nonstop services between Chicago and Honolulu in 1969. The reign of these long range specialists was short-lived, though, as a new generation of widebody aircraft led by the Boeing 747 would usher in services to Hawaii with the economies of scale fueling a boom in the Hawaii tourism industry. #avgeek #aviation #aircraft #planeporn #thechickenworks (follow this tag to see more of my artwork) #Douglas #DC8 #United #UAL #UnitedAirlines #instaaviation #aviationlovers #flight #Avgeekery #Adobe #Illustrator #aviationart #aviationillustration #IllustratorCC #Avgeekschoolofknowledge https://www.instagram.com/p/BplMPIGl9VG/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=vuw0mwuklec1

N8070U United Airlines “Capt R D Dick Petty” by Bob Garrard on Flickr.

National Geographic November, 1959

SAS introduced the DC-8 in 1960. For more than 20 years, SAS owned the 30, 50, 60 and 70 series.

Alitalia Douglas DC-8 62 I-DIWY by fsll2 Via Flickr: Alitalia Douglas DC-8 62 I-DIWY at Turin Caselle airport, November 1976.

1958 Douglas DC-8 Jetliner advertising