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A Douglas DC-3 on display at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. The DC-3 revolutionized air travel in the 1930s and 1940s. It was bult because Transcontinental and Western Airlines (TWA) needed to compete with United Airlines -- the airline arm of Boeing. Boeing had just built the Boeing 247, and was refusing to sell planes to any other airline until it had fulfilled United's order for 60 aircraft. TWA asked the Douglas Aircraft Company to design an airplane that could compete with the Boeing 247. Douglas built the DC-1 in 1933 and the DC-2 in 1934, but neither was able to compete with the Boeing 247. Douglas was reluctant to invest in additional design because of the cost. So the head of American Airlines, C.R. Smith, got on the phone with Donald Douglas and said he would buy 20 planes if they were more advanced and provided sleeping space on-board. See, at the time, most airplanes had to stop each night because their engines weren't capable of flying very long before needing refurbishment. During the night, fliers either had to stay in a motel or get a sleeper car on a train. It could take two days to cross the country -- and this included refueling stops every two hours! Douglas agreed to go ahead. Chief engineer Arthur E. Raymond spent two years desinging the plane. The new plan saw first flight on December 17, 1935. Outfitted with 14 sleeper berths, Smith was so impressed with the plane's performance that he asked for passenger seats to be installed instead. The 14 sleeper berths were quickly swapped out for 21 seats. The DC-3 was born. The DC-3 had such range that it only had to stop to refuel three times. Suddenly, one could crossing the United States in just 15 hours! American Airlines inaugurated passenger service on June 26, 1936 Mofre than 400 DC-3s were eventually built. The DC-3 was also rugged, and could take off on grass or even dirt fields. Douglas sold a thousand of these planes worldwide. The DC-3 remained a large part of the American air transport system into the 1970s. |
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| Author | Tim Evanson from Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA |
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