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Three pics: maintenance and cargo loading
CNAC cargo handlers Loading cargo from the back of a truck All three photos come courtesy of Steve Michiels
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Ernie Allison and O.C. Wilke
William Bond didn’t have any airline experience AT ALL when he arrived in China in 1931. None. Up to that point, he’d been a construction foreman. As such, he was very dependent on the professional aviators already engaged by the … Continue reading
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Anyone ever received one of these from an airline…. any airline?
Here are pictures of the front and back of a fan that CNAC gave to its passengers during the airline’s post war period, 1945-1949. Tom Moore of cnac.org bought it on ebay. CNAC fan, front, showing one of the airline’s … Continue reading
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Evacuating wounded soldiers
Steve Michiels, son of CNAC captain Joe Michiels, made his first-ever appearance at a CNAC reunion last week, and he was kind enough to pass along scans of some of his father’s snapshots. I’m going to post a few. CNAC … Continue reading
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Bond’s background
In 1918, William Langhorne Bond had shipped out to France as an enlisted man in the half-northern, half-southern Blue & Gray 29th Division. He returned in 1919 a commissioned officer, demobilized, and went back to work as a construction foreman … Continue reading
A Major Mistake
When I’d finally done enough background reading, primary source research, interviewing, and thinking about the CNAC story of the 1930s and had definitely decided that part of the airline’s story merited much more substantial treatment than I’d originally envisioned (a … Continue reading
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William Langhorne Bond
For all that I’ve written about Moon Chin since I started this China’s Wings website last year, he’s not my main character. That distinction goes to William Langhorne Bond. Like Moon, Bond was truly a remarkable man, and although I … Continue reading
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Four DC-2s on the Lunghwa flightline, 1937
Here are CNAC’s four DC-2s on the Lunghwa flightline in 1937, before the Marco Polo Bridge incident, the Japanese invasion, and the Battle of Shanghai. These were four remarkable airplanes, and they gave the airline many thousands of hours of … Continue reading
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Bound galleys China’s Wings
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Me and Moon Chin
Fabulous party at Moon Chin’s house yesterday afternoon. It absolutely boggles my mind to think that this man started flying in China during the winter of 1933. For those of you who might be new to my China’s Wings blog … Continue reading
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