In 1938, Douglas transports flew a distance of 13.5 times around the world each day (that's more than 336,000 miles). Yes, just three years after the first flight of the Douglas Sleeper Transport-the ...
Perhaps the most important aircraft in the history of commercial aviation was the Douglas DC-3. This year will mark the 90 th anniversary of the first commercial flight of the DC-3. On June 25, 1936, ...
When you visit the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC, and at its Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia, you expect to see relics of a bygone era. From the original ...
Donald Wills Douglas delivered the Wilbur Wright Memorial Lecture in 1935, honored for the successful DC-2 commercial airliner and predicting future aviation advancements like autopilots and remote ...