Together We Fly
eBook - ePub

Together We Fly

Voices from the DC-3

  1. 188 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Together We Fly

Voices from the DC-3

About this book

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 DC–3 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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Table of contents

  1. Foreword
  2. Preface—Gathering the Voices
  3. Doug
  4. Scrapbook
  5. Barbershop Days
  6. The Sum of Its Parts
  7. Devil in the Details
  8. $335.50
  9. Just Another Flight
  10. The Classroom
  11. Flag Stop
  12. Golf Shoes
  13. Out of the Night
  14. Ferry Flight
  15. Working the Line
  16. A Low Moon
  17. Daffodils in Dark Days
  18. The Silent Question
  19. Cold Comforts
  20. Minks
  21. The Last Manifest
  22. The Frontiers
  23. Captured
  24. Weather Bound
  25. Puff
  26. No Way Out
  27. The Island Chain
  28. Baby Doll
  29. Cold Ride
  30. Idle Days
  31. Flying Again
  32. Timeless
  33. Roll Call
  34. Acknowledgments
  35. About the Author