Three pics: maintenance and cargo loading
3 CNAC photos taken during the late 1940s
Month: September 2011
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. A...
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 b...
Evacuating wounded soldiers
Late 1940s, loading wounded Chinese soldiers aboard a CNAC C-46 during the Chinese Civil War
Bond’s background
William Bond's backstory
A Major Mistake
I decided tried to tell William Bond’s and Moon Chin’s stories together, imagining a parallel biography with Bond’s point of view carrying the larger “strategic...
William Langhorne Bond
Introducing William Langhorne Bond, main character in China's Wings.
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. Th...
Me and Moon Chin
Photo of me with Moon Chin, one of the main supporting characters in China's Wings. Moon started flying in China during the winter of 1933