Comments on: What was CNAC?

By: Gigantic China’s Wings photo gallery – Gregory Crouch

Gigantic China’s Wings photo gallery – Gregory Crouch — Tue, 29 May 2018 03:28:06 +0000

[…] consolidated gallery of photographs pertaining to the life and times of the China National Aviation Corporation, a Chinese-American civil aviation partnership that flew and fought in China during the 1930s and […]

By: “Goddamn it, I promised the wife I wouldn’t do this any more.” – Gregory Crouch

Tue, 29 May 2018 03:12:02 +0000

[…] people in the Hong Kong Colony had larger disposable incomes than CNAC’s Caucasian pilots, and few had more “face” in both Western and Chinese communities. They […]

By: Chinese Airports, then and now, on Business Insider – Gregory Crouch

Chinese Airports, then and now, on Business Insider – Gregory Crouch — Tue, 29 May 2018 03:06:19 +0000

[…] the “then” stuff is deeply tied into China’s Wings and the China National Aviation Corporation, and the contrasts to the “now” are pretty […]

By: Excellent CNAC video featuring Moon Chin, Pete Goutiere, and others | Gregory Crouch

Fri, 18 Sep 2015 18:12:36 +0000

[…] an excellent 20-minute CNAC video featuring four of the airline’s pilots I interviewed while writing China’s Wings: […]

By: 303 years of CNAC flying glory! | Gregory Crouch

303 years of CNAC flying glory! | Gregory Crouch — Mon, 14 Sep 2015 15:12:32 +0000

[…] What was CNAC? It’s the prime mover in my book China’s Wings. […]

By: Memorial Day presentation aboard the U.S.S. Hornet | Gregory Crouch

Memorial Day presentation aboard the U.S.S. Hornet | Gregory Crouch — Fri, 09 May 2014 16:57:39 +0000

[…] Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo raid, and carried on to land in China. A few weeks later, on May 5, 1942, CNAC superstar Moon Chin flew Jimmy Doolittle out of China, an event recounted in China’s […]

By: DC-2 & DC-3 flying in formation | Gregory Crouch

DC-2 & DC-3 flying in formation | Gregory Crouch — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 18:03:27 +0000

[…] recently restored by the Historic Flight Foundation, and it’s an airplane that once flew for the China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC)–as CNAC No. […]

By: Remember that beautifully restored DC-3? Here’s what it looked like with CNAC | Gregory Crouch

Mon, 02 Sep 2013 22:43:08 +0000

[…] that beautifully restored DC-3 I posted about before Christmas? The one that had once flown for the China National Aviation Corporation as CNAC No. 100 and had recently been returned to service in Pan Am livery by the Historic Flight […]

By: What are those huge concrete arrows that point the way across America? | Gregory Crouch

Mon, 26 Aug 2013 16:32:33 +0000

[…] Airmail service across the country, and that Ernie Allison, chief pilot and operations manager of the China National Aviation Corporation during the 1930s and late 1940s, was one of the pilots using those concrete arrows to find his way […]

By: The DC-2 arrives in China, spring 1935 | Gregory Crouch

The DC-2 arrives in China, spring 1935 | Gregory Crouch — Sun, 25 Aug 2013 13:49:11 +0000

[…] confidence, it looked like an airplane was supposed to look, and within 90 days of its arrival, the China National Aviation Corporation’s passenger traffic had jumped 300 percent. Through the years of writing, the DC-2 grew into my […]