Word: douglases
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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One afternoon this week a huge, shiny-new plane will be towed out on to Douglas Aircraft Co.'s 63-acre field at Santa Monica, Calif. While it lies there in the sun, sleek, lazy-looking and long, the thousands of spectators who line the field will wonder not...
To many a plain U. S. citizen, DC-4's name is as mysterious as the plane itself, but most of the crowd at the airfield will know that DC-4 means simply "Douglas Commercial Airplane, No. 4."
To the man whose creature it is, that shorthand name means a great deal more. As Donald Douglas waits with the rest of the crowd to see this embodiment of his 46-year career take off for its crucial test, he may well be turning over in his mind some...
¶ With Boeing's 307, DC-4 is the first commercial transport plane with a pressurized cabin. Its passenger compartment will be kept at low-altitude air pressure for passengers' comfort while the plane flies high, above bad weather. Overweather flight has been one of commercial aviation'...
That DC-4 may find the actual ceiling of air traffic's enormous room was suggested fortnight ago by Arthur E. Raymond, Douglas' vice president in charge of engineering. He pointed out to the Chamber of Commerce in Washington that there are three good reasons why transcontinental transport...