9/14/2023 0 Comments X plane freeware dc 47Vskylabs have been around for a few years. VSkyLabs Douglas DC-3 "Flying Lab Project" The oldest current DC-3 still flying is the original American Airlines Flagship Detroit (c/n 1920, the 43rd aircraft off the Santa Monica production line and delivered on March 2, 1937), which can still be seen at airshows around the United States and is owned and operated by the nonprofit Flagship Detroit Foundation. But most DC-3's today are now either in restoration or flying around at air shows. Incredibly even after eighty years since they first flew there are operators with 2,000 DC-3s still in revenue service and as many converted as cargo aircraft. These strong tough wartime birds would simply keep on flying no matter what you threw at them, pilots loved them and the rest is history. Beyond just the obvious the DC-3's claim to ultimate greatness was simply reliability. So you have cheap to buy, fast at 200 knts (370 km/h (230 mph) at 8,500 ft (2,590 m)) with a cruise speed of 180 knts (333 km/h (207 mph)), cheap to run and bingo you had an airline. The DC-3 was just an upgraded version of the DC-2 with 21 passenger seats, 1,100-horsepower (820 kW) Wright R-1820 Cyclone engines but also filled in that sweet niche point of making and in creating RPT airline routes (now known as regional) profitable. The DC-1 was in reality just a development prototype aircraft and only one was actually built. War time surplus demands then put a huge majority of these cheap flying aircraft on the market and the rest as they say is history.Įven in innovation it was the DC-2 that was the innovation aircraft in being an all metal aircraft with a tapered wing, retractable landing gear, and two 690 hp (515 kW) Wright radial engines driving variable-pitch propellers. So the DC-3 became the C47 Skytrain and over the course of the war they manufactured 16,000 of these Goony Birds. The military need aircraft, in fact thousands of them and they needed to be reliable, fast (in 2WW terms) and mostly cheap and quick to produce. In truth only 607 DC-3's were ever built and the aircraft was already in line to be superseded except for the insertion of the Second World War. The aircraft was one of the greatest machines to have ever been built, but the reality could have been different. In the area of greatness then that title has been lavished onto the DC-3 or Douglas Commercial 3. We are today too far removed from the changes of aviation in its formation years between the World Wars, but the effects from that era are all around us every time we go to an airport and fly. In modern thinking you could say the same about the before and after the iPhone and the effects on the way we communicate. But like most brilliant inventions the changes that we take for granted today are usually in steps, and some steps are small but important, but some are huge and changes almost everything in the way we used movement and in the way you traveled before that introduction of absolute change. From the destruction of distance, time and even the cost of moving around the planet can not be challenged in any shape or form. In the case of aviation the impact it was total. In most cases it is something or someone that has had an significant impact and has created enough of a shift in the way the whole world works or lives. Aircraft Review - DC-3/C47 by VSkyLabs Flying Lab Project
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