Picture dc3-3a

• Picture Notes

  The Douglas DC-3 is considered by some the most successful civil aircraft ever built. The chief engineer was Arthur Raymond (1900-1999). The technical innovations incorporated by the Douglas team included retractable landing gear, wing flaps, variable-pitch propellers, stressed-skin structure, and flush riveting. These innovations set many standards until the development of the jet engines (1950s).
  
  The first airplane flew in 1935. The airplane was built in nearly 11,000 by the end of 1944. By then it accounted for over 90 % of the world commercial aircraft. In 1940 a revised version (designated C-47) was launched. 18,000 were built in all, many of them after the war in countries other than America (including the Soviet Union).
  
  

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  Dimensions: 600x402 pixels  (0.24 MegaPixels in total) Size: 16KB 200dpi 8 bpp, source file: media/dc3-3a.jpg

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  • Occupation: as an Assembler Gabina (Gabby) D. Bergman (Duron)