"Ah the DC 8. They don't make planes like that anymore!"
As much as I like Boeing stuff, the 8 is my favorite. When the US guvmint gets their act together, checkout
www.nasa.gov/dc-8. It will probably be the only DC-8 flying in the US sometime next year, and it is really more of a flying science lab than an airliner. Great history, too. Alitalia and Braniff as a -62, then the last Cammacorp kit converting it to a -72 with NASA.
Unless somebody is playing a joke, I believe that may already be flying. If your ever bored on flightaware take a look at KEFD as I've noticed a few days with the DC8 doing a tour of the lower midwest with a U2 tagging along at 60 something FL's ....or some T38 guys busting mach for minute or two on decent from the Gulf
(or at least the flightawares' numbers say
) )