Douglas DC-8 (piston airliner)

DC-8
Role Airliner
Manufacturer Douglas Aircraft
Status Project canceled
Developed from Douglas XB-42 Mixmaster

The Douglas DC-8 was an American piston-engined airliner project by Douglas Aircraft. A concept developed more than a decade before the 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 commercially unviable.

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