Re: Prospective Female Engineer

Jim Thompson wrote:
So don't become an EE if you are afraid of flying or
something like that. And that does at times include a trip
in that old Coconut Airways DC-3.

Frithiof Andreas Jensen wrote:
DC-3 was designed to land with a Tank inside on an unprepared field.
That's a safety margin right there.

It sounds like you're talking about the C-47, the military variant
which was developed after[1] the DC-3 civilian version was flying.

How did they propose to get the tank inside the aircraft?
(No ramps on anything with its own engines until what??--the C-97?)
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[1] Ah, the days when companies innovated without a govn't contract.
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