Gigantic China’s Wings photo gallery
Classic aviation photos of flying in China in the 1930s and 1940s pertaining to the China National Aviation Corporation, a Chinese-American civil aviation partn...
Tag: DC-2
Stories and photos related to the Douglas DC-2, the China National Aviation Corporation, and China’s Wings, by Gregory Crouch
DC-2 & DC-3 flying in formation
Great photo! The DC-2 is the last airworthy DC-2 in the world, and the recently-restored DC-3, wearing Pan Am colors, is an airplane that once flew for the Chin...
Fleeing Shanghai, August 1937: one DC-2 gets wrecked & Moon Chin saves another
The China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC) fleeing the outbreak of the Battle of Shanghai in August, 1937. This episode details the wreck of one of CNAC's D...
Fleeing Shanghai, August 1937: Tensions in the partnership threaten to tear the airline apart
Fleeing the Battle of Shanghai, August 1937: the China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC) was in bad shape--tensions in the Sino-American partnership threaten...
Eurasia Ju-52 at Chungking’s Sanhupa Airport
Superb photo that shows one of Eurasia's Ju-52s. The man who brought it to my attention asked if I thought it was taken at Chungking's Sanhupa Airport, a cobble...
The DC 2 1/2
Photo of the DC-2 1/2, one of the best stories in China's Wings.
DC-2 Photo Gallery
a gallery of photos honoring the Douglas DC-2 in China, where it served with the China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC) from 1935-1942.
What it took to keep ’em flying
The massively complex logistics required to keep an airline flying. Even in 1943.
Credit to the CNAC mechanics & maintenance team
Tribute to the twenty years of miracles worked by the mechanics and maintenance experts of the China National Aviation Corporation.
The first commercial airliner ever shot down by hostile air action, pictures
CNAC DC-2 #32, the Kweilin, was machine-gunned and forced down by five Japanese pontoon biplanes on August 24, 1938, shortly after leaving Hong Kong’s Kai...