Re: CEV to be made commercially available

"Peter Stickney" <p-stickney@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> The DC-3 was a stretched version of the DC-2. The DC-2 was the
> production variant of Douglas' original DC-1 prototype. The DC-1 was
> produced for TWA as a competitor to the Boeing Model 247s being flown
> by United (United was owned by Boeing, at the time), and incorporated
> the same technology. The Boeing 247 was essentially an airliner
> flavor of Boeing's Y1B-9 bomber prototype.

Also, without WW II there might not have been thousands of war surplus C-47s
to be flogged off cheap and converted to airliners by their new owners.


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