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It's only a few years ago that the last overnight newspaper flights up and down the UK were made by these wonderful old birds. Prior to that we could hear the droning doppler effect in the late evening to early morning as they made their slow and steady progress.

 

Good shot, museums can be difficult places to work.

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Though I don't miss the DC3 (C47 originally, and the aircraft that made the passenger airline industry possible) I do miss Eastern. Lovely shot, again in WDC, I assume.

 

DC-3, originally: it started in airline service in 1936 as successor to the DC-2; C-47 was one of the US military designations (and Dakota the RAF one).

 

While I'm being pedantic, the passenger airline industry got started well before the DC-3. For example, Imperial Airways carried 11,000 people on its London-Paris route in 1924-25 (and showed the world's first in-flight movie). What the DC-3 unquestionably did was to transform the economics of the industry, especially when large numbers of war surplus aircraft became available. I travelled many times in them when I was young and will always remember the smell of leather, oil and avgas, plus a trace of vomit. :(

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