On this day in aviation history, February 20, 1939, the Douglas DC-5 made its first flight. Less remembered than its cousins, the DC-5 was poised to make advancing strides in the field of civil ...
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Douglas Aircraft's DC-2 and DC-3 airplanes dominated US airline passenger travel in the 1930s and 1940s, with DC-3s comprising almost all airliners by the mid-1940s. The DC-3 and its variants (like ...
This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: This Week In History: Douglas X-3 Stiletto on display on Oct. 5, 1975 ...
The Douglas X-3 Stiletto was a sleek experimental aircraft built to explore new aerodynamic designs and technologies for sustained supersonic flight. The X-3 project took birth in the late 1940s and ...