Category Archives: China’s Wings

Moon Chin, one of China’s Wings main supporting characters, told me about the huge impression seeing the Graf Zeppelin over Baltimore made on him when he was a boy. Here’s an incredible run of Hindenburg photos published on The Atlantic’s … Continue reading →

A partnership between Lufthansa and the Nationalist Chinese government, Eurasia Airlines was CNAC’s great commercial rival through the 1930s and early ’40s. An email correspondent just brought this superb photo to my attention. It shows  one of Eurasia’s Ju-52s, and … Continue reading →

The DC 2 1/2… one of the best stories in China’s Wings.

When I started researching and writing China’s Wings, I expected the world famous DC-3 to be my favorite airplane in the story, and a read a stack of books lauding its excellence. But the deeper I delved into the story, … Continue reading →

Building on my post singing the praises of the airline’s mechanics and maintenance personnel, the undersung heroes of my book China’s Wings, here’s a little evidence to chronicle the massively complex logistics of keeping an airline flying. On September 30, … Continue reading →

I was excited to have Eric Ludwig, grandson of CNAC pilot Sam Belieff, comment on last week’s post about CNAC No. 100, the plane so painstakingly restored by the Historic Flight Foundation in Washington. In his comment, Eric mentioned that … Continue reading →

Remember 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 … Continue reading →

Pioneering the Hump route over the eastern spur of the Himalayas in late 1941 and 1942 certainly has to be considered the China National Aviation Corporation’s capstone achievement from its two decades of service in the Far East, and its … Continue reading →