Skytrain
A Transport Revolution
The legendary Douglas DC-3 airliner was a technological breakthrough that changed the course of both civilian and military aviation. In the 1930s, passenger air travel was expensive, uncomfortable, and frequently unreliable. That began to change with the appearance of the handsome, thoroughly modern DC-3, the twenty-one-passenger twin-engine propeller-driven creation of Donald Douglas and his young California company. The first production models were sold to airlines for $90,000. The price climbed to $115,000 just before the United States entered the Second World War in December 1941. The new plane quickly became a favorite of passengers the…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-5107-0519-7
- EAN: 9781510705197
- Produktnummer: 22270536
- Verlag: Simon + Schuster Inc.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 82 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 45'868 KB
- Abbildungen: B-W and color photographs throughout
Über den Autor
Philip Kaplan was a book designer with Harper & Row and an art director with Playboy, Atlanta, and Architectural Digest magazines. He has written, coauthored, and designed thirty-eight books, including Tank, Grey Wolves, and With Wings As Eagles. Kaplan lives in Gloucestershire, England.
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