A Half-naked FBI Agent Carries A Case With $1 Million Ransom To A Hijacked Delta DC8 Jet In Miami, 1972.

LAP DC-8 at FRA. The airline was the only in Latin America with scheduled flights to Brussels ( until VASP commenced flying to BRU in the 90’s).

Braniff’s “Flying Colors” designed by Alexander Calder in 1973

Alexander Calder 

Flying Colors, 1973

Specially formulated aerospace paint on DC 8-62 airplane

Calder Foundation, New York 

In 1960 JAL took delivery of its first jet, a Douglas DC-8 named Fuji, introducing jet service on the Tokyo-Honolulu-San Francisco route. JAL went on to operate a fleet of 51 DC-8s, retiring the last of the type in 1987. Fuji flew until 1974 and was then used as a maintenance training platform until 1989; its nose section was stored at Haneda Airport and eventually put on public display at the JAL Sky Museum in March 2014.

“City of Los Angeles” United DC-8 at the California Science Center

KLM DC-8

Douglas DC-8-63CF with MiG-17PF escort.

dc-8 jet courier (postcard, c1960s)

United Air Lines, 1960