What I love about this H&N section is discovering aircraft one has never heard of or seen before, so thanks Nige321 for this one...and with the bonus of the DC-8 Skybus. What a remarkable beast that would have been.
As an aside worth noting that the WW2 vintage Do-335 had an ejector seat and explosive bolts on the rear propeller and dorsal fin mounts. In his book Wings on My Sleeve, Eric Brown describes the loss of a 335 at Farnborough post war caused by a fire burning through the flight controls.
Last edited by TCU; 4th Sep 2019 at 19:31.