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Tag: DC-2

Stories and photos related to the Douglas DC-2, the China National Aviation Corporation, and China’s Wings, by Gregory Crouch

China's Wings

Gigantic China’s Wings photo gallery

Posted on January 3, 2015 by Gregory / 19 Comments

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...

China's Wings

DC-2 & DC-3 flying in formation

Posted on September 3, 2013 by Gregory / 4 Comments

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...

China's Wings

Fleeing Shanghai, August 1937: one DC-2 gets wrecked & Moon Chin saves another

Posted on August 13, 2013 by Gregory / 3 Comments

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...

China's Wings

Fleeing Shanghai, August 1937: Tensions in the partnership threaten to tear the airline apart

Posted on August 8, 2013 by Gregory / 7 Comments

Fleeing the Battle of Shanghai, August 1937: the China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC) was in bad shape--tensions in the Sino-American partnership threaten...

China's Wings

Eurasia Ju-52 at Chungking’s Sanhupa Airport

Posted on May 8, 2013 by Gregory / 19 Comments

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...

China's Wings

The DC 2 1/2

Posted on February 9, 2013 by Gregory / 2 Comments

Photo of the DC-2 1/2, one of the best stories in China's Wings.

China's Wings

DC-2 Photo Gallery

Posted on February 7, 2013 by Gregory / 0 Comment

a gallery of photos honoring the Douglas DC-2 in China, where it served with the China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC) from 1935-1942.

China's Wings

What it took to keep ’em flying

Posted on January 22, 2013 by Gregory / 0 Comment

The massively complex logistics required to keep an airline flying. Even in 1943.

China's Wings

Credit to the CNAC mechanics & maintenance team

Posted on January 21, 2013 by Gregory / 3 Comments

Tribute to the twenty years of miracles worked by the mechanics and maintenance experts of the China National Aviation Corporation.

China's Wings

The first commercial airliner ever shot down by hostile air action, pictures

Posted on September 24, 2012 by Gregory / 7 Comments

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...

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