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Ex-TWA Convair CV-880 Departing From Mojave

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    Last Updated: December 25th, 2011
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25 Comments

  1. #1
    971YOURMOM
    December 25th, 2011 at 12:36 pm

    DAMN look at the smoke

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    Foxx1981
    December 25th, 2011 at 1:02 pm

    @77magenta but look at that horrible smoke they are emitting! horrible!

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    ozphil
    December 25th, 2011 at 1:20 pm

    So this A/C sat in Mojave for 18 years?? They brought it back, flew it to NJ to set it on fire????

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    flyinDPOD
    December 25th, 2011 at 1:27 pm

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  5. #5
    77magenta
    December 25th, 2011 at 1:37 pm

    just beautiful sounding engines on the girl.

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  6. #6
    alSation81
    December 25th, 2011 at 2:17 pm

    plane doubles as a crop-duster … shame it wasn’t preserved in TWA colours though

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    itapirkanmaa
    December 25th, 2011 at 2:46 pm

    @mrFalconlem There could well have been RR engines in Louisville during the time you were there, but not attached to a (reengined) UPS DC-8 airframe!
    If you think you’re right nevertheless, please give me the N-number or other reference!

    the DC-8 prod list:
    w w w.rzjets.net/aircraft/?typeid=97
    w w w.rzjets.net/aircraft/?page=1&parentid=1355&typeid=97&frstatus=3

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  8. #8
    VIR092
    December 25th, 2011 at 3:41 pm

    Too bad those days are long gone, we’ll never have them like that anymore. Now it’s all about quietness, Stage IV and no more smoke trails.

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  9. #9
    mrFalconlem
    December 25th, 2011 at 4:30 pm

    @itapirkanmaa Umm Wrong I happened to work at Louisville for UPS Airlines in 2001, and they were RR engines at that time.

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  10. #10
    MrMaverick098
    December 25th, 2011 at 4:53 pm

    I just wish they kept the TWA titles on it. It already has the paintscheme.

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  11. #11
    777jones
    December 25th, 2011 at 5:44 pm

    Hell fuckin yeah. This video is 100% hero.

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  12. #12
    itapirkanmaa
    December 25th, 2011 at 6:31 pm

    @mrFalconlem Freigher DC-8s have been reengined with the CFM56 (DC-8-70 series), not an RR engine, although a RR engine was an option for the early DC-8s. UPS have now phased out the DC-8.

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  13. #13
    duvdevanik
    December 25th, 2011 at 6:41 pm

    honestly this video brought tears to my eyes!!
    thank you

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  14. #14
    ten8goa
    December 25th, 2011 at 7:04 pm

    Is that a diesel?? Smokes like a shitty diesel.

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  15. #15
    drpoxy
    December 25th, 2011 at 8:00 pm

    Fast, noisy and very, very exiting – the way aircraft used to be !

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  16. #16
    squadman33
    December 25th, 2011 at 8:54 pm

    Lovely old bird !!

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  17. #17
    superskullmaster
    December 25th, 2011 at 9:09 pm

    @drumdude46 thats because you are not looking at the N1 fan when you look at the intake of these jets. You are looking at the variable stator vanes. They are BEFORE the fan and control the amount of air allowed in to prevent compressor stalls and surges.

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  18. #18
    megatop412
    December 25th, 2011 at 10:06 pm

    That exhaust is totally awesome and insane

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  19. #19
    duconducon2
    December 25th, 2011 at 10:23 pm

    did she has a full service prior the journey?

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  20. #20
    itsmegp46
    December 25th, 2011 at 10:25 pm

    @geargemartin Only for a brief period. It was phased out very early on because of excess fuel consumption, noise and its inability to maintain that fast speed.

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  21. #21
    neverboardproduction
    December 25th, 2011 at 11:19 pm

    @itsmegp46 because they are

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  22. #22
    sidoney101
    December 26th, 2011 at 12:07 am

    @itsmegp46 Thanks for that. I grew up in the 80’s and 90’s so didn’t see any of these old beasts. I don’t trust air I can’t see ;)

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  23. #23
    itsmegp46
    December 26th, 2011 at 12:15 am

    @sidoney101 All the older jets, especially the turbojet engines used to smoke like that. I remember them as they flew over my house 45 years ago. Back then, there were no noise or pollution standards that exist today.

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  24. #24
    itsmegp46
    December 26th, 2011 at 12:55 am

    @princesslithium This jet is early 1960’s technology. Even if Airbus existed back then, their planes would have been just as dirty.

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  25. #25
    itsmegp46
    December 26th, 2011 at 1:31 am

    @neverboardproduction Why?

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