Super Stretch DC8

[PR19_Kit]

The only 1/144 scale nose gear set at the whole show was one for a C-141, so the Super Stretch made its public debut resting on s chunk of foam!

I'll see if I can get a proper set soon.

[JayBee]

The Dc-8 did have a problem with the length of the u/c.
Many, many years ago one of my friends had a summer job as a baggage handler at Prestwick airport, he said that the only real difference between the Boeing 707 and the Dc-8, was that you could walk under a 707 fuselage OK. Forget to duck with a Dc-8 and you would end up with a sore head. 

Jim

[PR19_Kit]

That's rather odd because I always understood that the reason Boeing didn't stretch the 707, as Douglas did with the DC8, was because the landing gear was too short to let it rotate enough on take-off.