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Post by Peter Liddell - HJG Admin on Aug 27, 2018 18:07:25 GMT
A Couple new DC-8s for everyone... starting with Dc-8-63 S7-SIS, circa 1984   DC-8-53 S7-SIA to come |
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Post by aerofoto - HJG Admin on Aug 27, 2018 21:02:22 GMT
I'm pleased that one's come up .... and that you're also contemplating the SIA DC-8-50 too .... "THANKS" Peter.
Still lots of great and historic DC-8 subjects worthy of consideration for potential repaint subjects .... subject to their appeal to our texture artists of course.
Mark C
AKL/NZ
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Post by Peter Liddell - HJG Admin on Aug 27, 2018 22:55:29 GMT
Yes it's been on my list for awhile. Other DC-8s too of course  |
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Post by Peter Liddell - HJG Admin on Aug 28, 2018 15:24:58 GMT
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Post by Herman on Aug 28, 2018 15:45:15 GMT
Very nice Peter. Did not know that this airline operated DC-8's.
Herman
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Post by aerofoto - HJG Admin on Aug 28, 2018 15:48:27 GMT
I like those Peter S7-SIA must have featured a high density cabin configuration. I note the aft mid-cabin emergency exit .... between the 2 O/W exits and DOO2 2L. Not many -50's featured this. The only others I immediately recall seeing featuring this configuration were some of the -55F's operated by UTA FRENCH AIRLINES .... but a number of others undoubtedly had it too. Mark C AKL/NZ |
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Post by Peter Liddell - HJG Admin on Aug 28, 2018 15:53:27 GMT
Seychelles International (actually Seychelles International Safari Air Limited) only operated these 2 Dc-8s as far as i know... it is NOT related to Air Seychelles.
This airline was owned by the same organization as African Safari Airways, and died off when the Seychelles nationalized most of the resorts located there.
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Post by Peter Liddell - HJG Admin on Aug 28, 2018 17:21:56 GMT
I like those Peter S7-SIA must have featured a high density cabin configuration. I note the aft mid-cabin emergency exit .... between the 2 O/W exits and DOO2 2L. Not many -50's featured this. The only others I immediately recall seeing featuring this configuration were some of the -55F's operated by UTA FRENCH AIRLINES .... but a number of others undoubtedly had it too. Mark C AKL/NZ I tried to find some info on the config Mark, but besides being all "tourist" I got nothing (SIS was either 241 or 244Y, so not super crammed, some -63s were as dense as 259Y). And it seems the door config is from it's KLM days so i don't know if it's important... or why it's only on the left side. |
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Post by aerofoto - HJG Admin on Aug 28, 2018 20:58:12 GMT
SEYCHELLES iNTERNATIONAL AIRWAYS DC-8-53 s7-SIA "Islnd Bird" (1982) SEYCHELLES iNTERNATIONAL AIRWAYS DC-8-63 s7-SIS "Islnd Bird" (1984) "As I recall" .... some Dc-8-50's aircraft which were convertibles had a moveable interior cabin bulkhead promoting flexible capacity separating PAX from maindeck cargo space in the case of reconfigured and combined PAX/cargo operations. The extra door was a legal requirement for those convertible -50's with fully strengthened floors .... particularly in case where the required maindeck cargo space extended beyond positions of the O/W exits. Similar applied to some B707-320Cs as well. Among DC-8-50's the extra door seems to have been fitted to some 53's, 54's, and 55's only ....   And among B707-320's fitted with the extra door were those operated by QANTAS AIRWAYS....   S7-SIA seeems to have spent most of it life with KLM as PH-DCN (between 1962 and 75) .... another European operator (like UTA) of the DC-8-55 .... www.planespotters.net/airframe/Douglas/DC-8/S7-SIA-Seychelles-International/Qd8rU09RI guess it was just an aircraft configuration SIA inherited through their need of a DC-8-50. Mark C AKL/NZ
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