The Douglas DC-3 is celebrated as a pivotal aircraft that made air travel popular and profitable, setting the stage for its predecessors, the DC-1 and DC-2. Douglas Aircraft Company (DAC) entered the ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Originally designed to perform near-suicidal nuclear bombing missions targeting the Soviet Union, over 35 years of service the many Skywarrior variants ended ...

Before hose-and-reel refueling took hold, the Navy tried a system of rigid tubing. This did not end well. US Navy In the mid-1950s, a naval officer in the Bureau of Aeronautics in Washington, D.C., ...

The Douglas DC-3 evolved from its successful predecessor, the DC-2, through a significant redesign to meet American Airlines' demand for a more comfortable and profitable passenger aircraft. The DC-3 ...