This is the story of an aircraft like none other a true legend, the icon of an industry and one of the most recognized aircraft in history. Today, over 75 years after her first flight, the DC-3 graces the skies of the 21st century. Crowds still gather to watch a DC-3 land, technicians revel in the sound of her rumbling radial engines, cargo haulers appreciate her ability to stretch to meet impossible demands, and pilots still dream of flying the greatest airplane ever built.The author introduces readers to those that helped make the DC-3 seem larger than life. The Douglas DC3 has shaped virtually every life that it has touched. Those lives, and why this airplane mattered to them, come alive in this book: engineers, builders, pilots, stewardesses, baggage loaders, ramp crew, mechanics, soldiers, and passengers to illustrate each period of the airplane's history. Beginning with Donald Douglas, through the airplane's development and flight test, initial airline success, war service, regional airline use, life as a cargo hauler, and current expression as an airshow favorite the voices tell the story of the airplane... like a flight through time in what might be considered the grandest of time machines.
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Julie Boatman Filucci
Julie Boatman Filucci
Aviation Supplies & Academics, Inc. Newcastle, Washington
FOREWORDby Jack Pelton xi PREFACE xiv DOUG 1 SCRAPBOOK 5 BARBERSHOP DAYS 11 THE SUM OF ITS PARTS 18 DEVIL IN THE DETAILS 23 $335.50 27 JUST ANOTHER FLIGHT 33 THE CLASSROOM 36 FLAG STOP 41 GOLF SHOES 47 OUT OF THE NIGHT 53 FERRY FLIGHT 57 WORKING THE LINE 61 A LOW MOON 69 DAFFODILS IN DARK DAYS 75
Contents
THE SILENT QUESTION 80 COLD COMFORTS 85 MINKS 90 THE LAST MANIFEST 98 THE FRONTIERS 101 CAPTURED 109 WEATHER BOUND 114 PUFF 121 NO WAY OUT 125 THE ISLAND CHAIN 129 BABY DOLL 133 COLD RIDE 137 IDLE DAYS 141 FLYING AGAIN 145 TIMELESS 151 ROLL CALL 159
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 169 ABOUT THE AUTHOR 171
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To Robert Boatman, Hump Pilot, and to “Darla Dee,” for always taking care of us