Description
Gemini 250 Trans Caribbean DC-8-61 is a Gemini Jets die-cast metal model completely assembled in 1/250 scale. Gemini diecast model jets use aircraft manufacturers' blueprints and Pantone? color charts to assure accurate duplication of their replicas. Gemi Jets range of scale diecast metal airliner replicas represent the world's airlines both past and present. Gemini Jets 1:250 scale models are highly collectible and are all limited editions. As with all Jemin Jets limited edition collectibles, it is our policy not to reissue models which have previously sold out. Gemin Jets have gone to great lengths to provide you a diecast metal airliner that replicates your favorite aircraft, without sacrificing accuracy. Once the item is sold out, it will become a rare collectible plane. Dont miss the opportunity to acquire one of these, they would look fantastic on a desk.= History =During the 1960s, many of Douglas Aircraft Corporations customers expressed interest in a higher capacity DC-8 jetliner that would enable them to carry greater payloads, while retaining the versatility of their current standard body DC-8 fleet. After several proposals to airlines, the first project was launched by SAS of Scandinavia for the ?62 on April 4, 1965, followed by United Airlines for the ?61 a few days later. The ?62 featured a 3 foot 3 inch stretch over the standard body DC-8-50, but had more powerful engines and a greater wingspan for improved range. The ?61 encompassed most of the features of the DC-8-50, but was given a stretch of 36 feet 8 inches which made it the largest airliner until the advent of the wide-bodied airliners a few years later. The first Stretch model DC-8-61 (a name that aircraft now adopted) rolled out of the Long Beach, California factory on January 24, 1966. The final DC-8 Stretch was the ?63. It incorporated the wings of the ?62 and the fuselage stretch of the ?61. This aircraft first flew for KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, and was rolled out on March 6, 1967. As with the standard bodied DC-8s, most of the surviving DC-8 Stretch models have now been converted to freighter aircraft. Many have also been re-engined as the 70 series with the high bypass ratio turbofan engines, which will extend their lease on life into the 21st Century.
