Originally Posted by
Carl Spackler
I got my FE ticket on the DC-8:
Bar is just jealous of that pure Douglas engineering awesomeness!
Carl
Originally Posted by
Boomer
I can understand all the gauges and switches, but why is the noose colored green?
It's not a noose. They don't use a hangin' rope anymore, this is obviously a 1950s lethal injection machine and that hose is a part of the intravenous injection tube.
Those handles at the bottom are used to release sodium thiopental, pancuronium bromide and then potassium choloride in that order (according to wikipedia). Note the Californian Communist blue color of the whole machine. It's obviously a death trap.
The neat thing is that whoever invented this death trap also used the crossfeed switches from the MD-88.