Great video! I'll tell you, back in the days when jetliners like this beauty were in regular service the airport was a really exciting place to be. At JFK New York I knew all the best spotting places to go. There was no ultra-tight security and as long as I stayed outside the airport fences I could go anywhere I wanted. Often times on a Sunday I'd pack a sandwich and make a day of it. Today there's layers of security and most of the planes look the same. It's still fun, but not as much as "the old days."

I flew for three years as flight engineer on the DC-8-73. Great plane.

I leased a 63 F from TIA. Had great crew. Great power.Great sound, GREAT SMOKE ..........GLORIOUS

This was an incredible airplane like the Boeing 707. The DC-8 had less of a wing sweep, and was slower than the 707, and the Convair 880/990s. Some airlines placed big orders for them like United, and Delta. The P&W JT-3D-3 turbofans required more maintenance, and were fuel guzzlers. The Douglas company went on to re-engine the series 63s into series 71s with the General Electric CFM-56 turbofans. It went on to become a purely great freighter. A very iconic airplane to say the least.

Those wonderful 4 loud engines and the beautiful black smoke. Love it and miss it

Régal pour les yeux et les oreilles ! Merci encore pour cet excellente rétrospective !😀

Still a better looking than any modern jetliners of today.

🇯🇲🇯🇲Brings back kids memories of the 70 s growing & watching Air Jamaica's D.C 8 ,9,& 727's passing overhead . This is the 1st plane I went in during a School Outing .

Ostend is freighter heaven. Never knew an airport like that could ever exist with first generation cargo planes all localised in one place from carriers seldom heard of. Amazing. If I had time machine Ostend is where I'd go.

Respect for such a loudness🤫

I was a machinist for Douglas, then McDonnell Douglas in the 1960’s and made several parts for the DC 8 as well as the DC 9 and 10. Flew on all of Douglas Commercial planes from the DC 3, 4,6,7, and the jets.

I flew to YYZ in April 19th 1985 from MEX by Aeroméxico aboard of the DC-8-51 named Puebla registration XA-SIA

Got a few rides on the Air Canada dc-8 and CP Air back in the seventies and eighties. I flew from Paris Charles De-Gaul to Montreal Dorval in November 75 on one of them. I even got a short cockpit visit while over Labrador - very cool experience.

What a beautiful aircraft. The first time I ever flew on any airplane was in 1971. I was 15 years old and flew from New Orleans to Washington, D.C. aboarad a Delta DC-8. Comfy seats, plenty of room, and curtains on curtain rods above the windows. Acutal and edible food, china plates, cloth napkins, silverware, and glass salt and pepper shakers with little metal caps. And, that was coach at the time. The plane is a transitional form between the airliners of old and those of the modern age, along with its cousin the Boeing 707.

Blast from the past indeed! A 54/55 in the video? Oh yeah. That last 62 takeoff was awesome. Great catch.

Love DC-8's ✈thanks

So great that Patrick has films of these aviation icons for future generations to watch 👍

I used to see these beautiful aircraft coming and going from RAF Manston in Kent truly an amazing sight and sound

Thanks Patrick. A top not video. I love your first generation jets series. Nothing like the emotive sounds of a DC-8 or 707/720

These JT3Ds sound so sexy!

Lovely sound,and great plane.

Thank you so much. I really miss those birds.

Any of you OLD DC-8 guys out there recall an optional "combustion start set up" on #3 engine for off route where there may not be a ground starter available. We had it on some of the SEABOARD WORLD DC-8 55's

Patrick love the past blast liveries all looking superb, in white those engines sound like new smooth and steady just perfect for the business of cargo. That MK cargo looking better than new on solid aluminum alloy so sweet even in the rain. Older planes are not boring but a moving entity. Patrick have a great week catch you on the next flight.

Their sounds are amazing and the look of the plane is beautiful ... A stylish plane ... Thank you. ❤👍

I’ve never gotten to fly on the Super 8, but I know for a fact that I’ve missed out.

That -62 was a real hot rod.

I always felt secure on the DC8

This week, a NASA DC-8 is conducting research over the Great Lakes area at an exceptionally low altitude and this particular aircraft is the world's largest flying laboratory.

03:40 and 05:45 check the size of those massive trailing edge flaps :-) Thank you for this great video! In 1995 I moved into a home near Sydney’s Kingsford Smith Airport, YSSY. Back then the three engined B727 was still frequently operated out of YSSY. I remember those three turbines, even though fitted with “hush-kits”, were so loud at 600’ on departure that windows shook and you really got the impression that the atmosphere itself might be split asunder or ruptured. Today the loudest departures are perhaps the B744 and A380… and they are quiet compared to the nice old 727.

Great vids Patrick' all that's missing is the smell of kerosene 🤭

Yes it's good that the modern ones are quieter, but to my mind this is how a jet airliner should sound.

love vintage machines, no computer all controlls in pilots command.

Maaan those planes are pretty! Thanks for keeping the mommies alive. L.

I have several books about DC-8s, most state DC-8- 62 and 63s are the loudest of all early jetliners. Not around to hear but assumed that the turbojet DC-8s would be much louder at T/O.

In my youth I took my camera to Prestwick airport in the West of Scotland one summers day. Captured a Seaboard World DC-8 and a Pan Am Boeing 707. On the spectators gallery we got the full Kerosene fuel deoderent on us. Changed times, even though todays massive engines move more people in one trip around the world at a decent cost with less pollution. One day AI will recreate the Romans and we can ask them. How would you like to travel ? ✈

Thanks a lot for video..

Another wonderful video

...flew on a United Super 61 to Denver and Milwaukee in the mid 1980s that still had the JT-3Ds. Was seated just ahead of the wing, lovely sound even from inside. That MK aeroplane late in the video, is that a series 62? The engine nacelles sure look like it.

Nice

I flew with Finnair DC-8s several times. I was supposed to be on board a Finnair DC-10 from New York to Helsinki in 1979, but the USA banned all DC-10 traffic in its airspace after an American Airlines DC-10 crashed on takeoff in Chicago. So Finnair put the passengers on board a DC-8 instead. Finnair checked their DC-10s, found nothing wrong with them and kept flying them in Europe and the Far East.

******lovely engine sound ******🙏🌷🌷🇮🇳🌷🌷🙏 jai hind

I have seen the same when armée de l'air owned some DC8-62,63. After réengineed. One of thèm 😢belongs now to Samaritan Purse Air.. Flew many time from USA to Poland Rzeszow for ...appetizer delivery💣🧨

Flew a Delta DC-8-55 from New Orleans to Chicago, THE most comfortable seat & flight i’ve ever taken❤✈️

I think I had an eargasm at 5:10

Looks fantastic and very fast aircraft 650 kmph

Rollin' coal!

Are those JT3C straight pipe turbojets ❤

I provided groung handling for a 63 under the company's name EMERY

So much more exciting than modern jets! Do you happen to know what the vents in the nose were for, please? 🛩 💙 🛩

the first one - is that a series 55 ?

no leading edge slats on this baby. Land it nose down

Where is the GPU

It's look like boing 707

Or he's talking off

Sounds amazing but not as nice looking as a Boeing 707.

My first flight from lax

Heel Goed !!🎉