Recently I've built up a small backlog of 10 Aeroclassics DC-8s from various sources so I thought I'd start a DC-8 thread as I unbox them, much like the Diesel Nine one I created.
I start with a couple of brand new models. Air Congo DC-8-32 9Q-CLE started life as a N813PA Jet Clipper Bostonian with Pan Am in October 1960. Sold to Air Congo in June 1969 along with another, she quickly became 9Q-CLE and replaced the previously leased Capitol DC-8 on the Lubumbashi-Kinshasa-Brussels via either Paris or Rome route. The aircraft gained the name 'Kisangani' after city that had been renamed from Stanleyville in 1966. Of course the entire country was renamed to Zaire in 1971 and so was the airline itself. CLE was withdrawn in November 1984.
The model nicely recreates the real aircraft as long as you don't look too close. Most of the photos show her with the 'Kisangani' name in script on the forward lower fuselage but there is at least one in which it is absent so the model isn't incorrect. I'm not convinced by the shade of red and the definition of the Leopard logo on the tail is poor. Still overall a really nice release and as usual one nobody else would ever go near.
I start with a couple of brand new models. Air Congo DC-8-32 9Q-CLE started life as a N813PA Jet Clipper Bostonian with Pan Am in October 1960. Sold to Air Congo in June 1969 along with another, she quickly became 9Q-CLE and replaced the previously leased Capitol DC-8 on the Lubumbashi-Kinshasa-Brussels via either Paris or Rome route. The aircraft gained the name 'Kisangani' after city that had been renamed from Stanleyville in 1966. Of course the entire country was renamed to Zaire in 1971 and so was the airline itself. CLE was withdrawn in November 1984.
The model nicely recreates the real aircraft as long as you don't look too close. Most of the photos show her with the 'Kisangani' name in script on the forward lower fuselage but there is at least one in which it is absent so the model isn't incorrect. I'm not convinced by the shade of red and the definition of the Leopard logo on the tail is poor. Still overall a really nice release and as usual one nobody else would ever go near.
