These three were taken at the Douglas aircraft manufacturing facility at Long Beach Airport (not long after the merger with McDonnell of St. Louis). Mike and I drove down there one weekend with the Instamatic camera and I took pictures. After quite a few photos, we were accosted by a security guard and told we could not take photographs there. (The company may have been experiencing financial problems and delays in delivering aircraft, so I guess they wanted to ensure that we were not Boeing or industry spies, checking up on them.)
The top photograph is a yellow Braniff stretch DC-8. The second is an Eastern Airlines stretch DC-8 that features the new 1970's era paint scheme of colorful, bold stripes along the fuselage. The bottom is a United Airlines stretch DC-8.
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