Douglas
How Delta and United entered the jet age with the DC-8
Despite entering service almost a year after Boeing’s 707, the California-built Douglas DC-8 was a game-changer for the aviation industry and the two airlines that simultaneously put the type into service on September 18, 1959. Lee Cross documents Delta Air Lines’ and United Airlines’ entrance to the jet age
Douglas DC-2 delivered to HARS
The Historical Aircraft Restoration Society (HARS) has received a Douglas DC-2 to join its growing collection at Shellharbour Airport, Albion Park Rail in New South Wales, Australia.
DC-3 D-Day Squadron plans for Overlord 80th anniversary
The D-Day Squadron, a mini-US aerial armada, is returning to Europe to mark the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings. The Squadron’s Moreno Aguiari told Tom Allett about the organisation’s forthcoming transatlantic adventure
DC-3 taxies in return to the sky project
Douglas DC-3 LV-BEH completed a series of taxi runs on March 9 and 10 at an EAA convention in Argentina. It’s the latest step in the project to return the 1943-built aircraft to the skies.
Save the Skymaster closes
North Weald-based Save the Skymaster has announced that it is to close its charity and halt restoration work on Douglas C-54, N44914 (c/n 10630) ‘56498’.
NASA DC-8 retirement
NASA will shortly retire its DC-8 Airborne Science Laboratory after 37 years of missions.
Save the Skymaster folds its wings
The team were attempting to return a Douglas C-54 Skymaster to flying status
What is the difference between Douglas DC-2 and DC-3?
In a chapter extracted from a Key Publishing book on the Douglas DC-3, Tim McLelland examines the changes made to the DC-2 to make the legendary DC-3
The secret story of how America nearly built its own 'Bear'
On 29 January 1951, Aviation Week published a lead story revealing a radical bomber designed by Douglas, the Model 1211-J. This came as a shock to the outside world, as Boeing was under contract to develop the XB-52 as the US Air Force’s new heavy strategic bomber. Something had clearly happened…
Diversifying business interests: Remembering Sir Freddie Laker
Leveraging his broad skillset to tap into enormous post-World War Two demand, Freddie Laker’s business interests diversified rapidly in the 1950s, albeit with mixed success