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Fairchild C-119G Flying Boxcar engine start

The Hagerstown Aviation Museum’s 1953 C-119 engine run test in Greybull, WY October, 2008. Videographer not known. www.HagerstownAviationMuseum.org

XP6M SeaMaster Flying Boat

The Martin P6M SeaMaster, built by the Glenn L. Martin Company, was a 1950s strategic bomber flying boat for the United States Navy that almost entered service; production aircraft had been built and Navy crews were undergoing operational conversion, with a service entry about six months off, when the program was cancelled on August 21, …Read more »

JAL DC-8-62 Water Landing SFO 11/22/68

This is the story of the ditching of a JAL DC-8-62 in the San Francisco Bay, just off of Coyote Point while on final for 28L or 28R on November 22, 1968.

Zuliana de Aviacion DC 8 Landing at Maracaibo Intl Airport

An old beauty landing in Maracaibo (SVMC) early 90´s – (Sorry, Radar interference) while Servamara´s Grumman GI was taxiing around. Videographer not known.

Antarctica 2009: NASA DC-8-72

The NASA DC-8-62 makes their long treks to Antarctica with a heavy payload possible. Focus is on take-off and, of course … the group photo. Videographer not known.

1954 BOAC Boeing Stratocruiser sighting Captain James Howard.

Captain James Howard decribed the sighting he had in 1954, as a pilot for BOAC.