What a shame..I did 10,000 hours on the 200,300,400 variants...She was queen of the sky’s.....Really miss flying the old girl...They retired them from CX a number of years ago....
Yeah and brought in those 'designer' seats that were so goddam uncomfortable they had to replace them all...
Mac truck of the sky PP...Initial design late 50s early 60s and they nailed it unlike Airbus..It rode turbulence well ,was the best handling big jet and it had 4 engines..Must admit I did like the DC8 as well...
Engineering they remind me of a 50’ Chev big heavy but tough. A great aircraft that I spent most of my engineering life working on, I got to know them inside and out.