Douglas DC-8

The Douglas DC-8 (also known as the McDonnell Douglas DC-8) is a four-engine long-range narrow-body jet airliner built from 1958 to 1972 by the Douglas Aircraft Company. Launched after the competing Boeing 707, the DC-8 nevertheless kept Douglas in a strong position in the airliner market, and remained in production until 1972 when it began to be superseded by larger wide-body designs, including the Boeing 747, McDonnell Douglas DC-10 and Lockheed L-1011 TriStar. The DC-8's design allowed it a slightly larger cargo capacity than the 707 and some re-engined DC-8s are still in use as freighters.

Development

Background

After World War II Douglas had a commanding position in the commercial aircraft market. Boeing had pointed the way to the modern all-metal airliner in 1933 with the 247, but Douglas, more than any other company, made commercial air travel a reality. Douglas produced a succession of piston-engined aircraft (DC-2, DC-3, DC-4, DC-5, DC-6, and DC-7) through the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. When de Havilland flew the first jet airliner, the Comet, in 1949, Douglas felt no need to rush into anything new. Their U.S. competitors at Lockheed and Convair felt the same way: that there would be a gradual switch from piston engines to turbines, and that the switch would be to the more fuel-efficient turboprop engines rather than pure jets. All three companies were working on a new generation of piston-engined designs, with an eye to turboprop conversion in the future.

Douglas DC-8 (piston airliner)

The Douglas DC-8 was a piston-engined airliner project by Douglas Aircraft. A prototype built more than a decade before the Douglas DC-8 jetliner, the piston-engined DC-8 was to have propellers in the tail, an idea first used at Douglas by Edward F. Burton on a fighter project. The airliner project was canceled after development costs made it not commercially viable.

Design and development

Based on the cancelled XB-42, the program began shortly after the end of World War II. It was intended to operate on short- and medium-range routes, carrying between 40 and 48 passengers in a then-novel pressurized cabin (which had been pioneered by the Boeing 307 in 1938, but was still not in standard airline use).

The DC-8 was to use the same Allison V1710s as the XB-42 (these rated at 1,375 hp (1,025 kW)), fitted below and immediately behind the cockpit. They were to power contra-rotating propellers in the tail, as in the XB-42, by way of driveshafts under the cabin floor (an arrangement reminiscent of the P-39.) This arrangement, also proposed for the Douglas Cloudster II general aviation aircraft, reduced drag by 30% and eliminated the problems associated with controlling the aircraft with one engine out. Cabin access would have been by airport stair through a single portside door.

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Hard Liquor

by: Tech N9ne

[Chorus]
Hard liquor
Me and my people be so drunk we don't drive
We take the trolley ‘cause of hard liquor,
We started Waldo to Westport and pee in every martini corner at the last call
And we all yellin' “Is there any more?”
When it ain't we go home for hard liquor,
Make sure that it's mixed, yeah
And twist it with a little bit of lemon juice on ice, on ice, on ice, yeahhh.
[Tech N9ne]
Aye aye they sayin' that I got high blood sugar,
So I can't drink like I wanna drink, drink like I wanna know
I ain't playin ‘cause I love liquor
So if I big drink am I gonna drink, jinxed, I don't wanna go,
So I go hard as hell on one night, fun sight
If I'm drunk enough to start a bum fight
Done right, Henny, Jack and Gin, 151 Rum slight, none light
Novocain I know to blame a gun snipe on drunk life
then the bar hit ya with a large spritzer
Hit ya ass, get ya cash then they all richer
in the draw, pitcher
I'm large sipper
When you wait, but I hope I ain't in the car witcha.
[Eminem]
What the fuck?
Ey yo Whoo Kid!
Run that shit back!
Goddamn!
[Chorus]
Hard liquor
Me and my people be so drunk we don't drive
We take the trolley ‘cause of hard liquor,
We started Waldo to Westport and pee in every martini corner at the last call
And we all yellin' “Is there any more?”
When it ain't we go home for hard liquor,
Make sure that it's mixed, yeah
And twist it with a little bit of lemon juice on ice, on ice, on ice, yeahhh.
[Tech N9ne]
Aye aye they sayin' that I got high blood sugar,
So I can't drink like I wanna drink, drink like I wanna know
I ain't playin ‘cause I love liquor
So if I big drink am I gonna drink, jinxed, I don't wanna go,
So I go hard as hell on one night, fun sight
If I'm drunk enough to start a bum fight
Done right, Henny, Jack and Gin, 151 Rum slight, none light
Novocain I know to blame a gun snipe on drunk life
then the bar hit ya with a large spritzer
Hit ya ass, get ya cash then they all richer
in the draw, pitcher
I'm large sipper
When you wait, but I hope I ain't in the car witcha.
Hard liquor, I need some more, hard liquor
all the alcoholics in this
is there any more
We even go to WalMart for (hard liquor)
Make sure that it's mixed
And twist it with a little bit of lemon juice on ice, on ice, on ice, yeahhh
Hard liquor, hard liquor
Is there any more?
Hard liquor
Make sure that it's mixed




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