DC5?

[vctenderness]

I watched a programme about the British band the Dave Clark Five who were big in the 1960's.

They toured the US in 1964 on an aircraft with the logo DC5 anyone any info on what aircraft this would have been?

[DaveReidUK]

A 727, I'd say.

[gruntie]

Triangular windows = Caravelle

[DaveReidUK]

We're both wrong.



CV240.

[Cymmon]

Definitely a Caravelle , two pics across the top, but yes to Convair on the top left.

[megan]

Here's me hoping the thread was about

[India Four Two]

megan,

Me too!

[kcockayne]

They might have used a Convairliner but, that is definitely a Caravelle that they are standing in front of in the 1st. picture..

[WHBM]

By aspects of the livery on fuselage and engine, I would say the Caravelle was one of the 20 United examples, only operator within the US at the time.

The Convair 240 had been new to Ford Motors back in 1950, with an executive interior. It was in the hands of various executive charter companies in the 1960s, and operated in Israel in the last 15 years of its life before being lost in a hangar fire at Tel Aviv in 1987.

[Cymmon]

Yes, someone should start a thread about the DC-5, very little about it, also maybe the Douglas DC-4E, the original DC-4 before it was scaled down.

[vctenderness]

The one in the programme was not a caravelle or any jet it was the one in Dave Reid's photo. I thought it might be. DC3 at first but obviously not.