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Tag Archives: DC-3
The DC-9
Forty-six years ago today, the DC-9 flew for the very first time. Douglas Aircraft began researching the need for short- to medium-range airliners in the late 1950s. The original thought was to design a smaller version of their popular DC-8, … Continue reading →
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Tagged airplanes, aviation history, Caravelle aircraft, DC-3, DC-8, Douglas Aircraft, flying, integral boarding stairs, low ground clearance, maximum range, McDonnell Douglas, Pratt & Whitney JT8D turbofan engines, professional pilots, revenue operation, short field capabilities, smaller operators, Sud Aviation, The DC-9, the Long Beach Division of Boeing Commercial Airplanes
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Ernest K. Gann
If you are a pilot and you enjoy reading, I hope you have a chance to read some of Ernest K. Gann’s works. If you want to have a sense of aeronautical history coupled with vicarious learning about flying, you … Continue reading →
Posted in Aviation, Life in General, Personal, Publishing, Reading
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Tagged A Hostage To Fortune, a pilot’s pilot, a writer’s writer, airline pilot, barnstormers, DC-2, DC-3, Ernest K. Gann, Fate Is The Hunter, gypsy pilots, learning vicariously, MATS, professional pilot, professional writer, The Hump, the Taj Mahal
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