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Tag: Stinson Detroiter

Stories and photos related to the Stinson Detroiter monoplane, 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

Moon Chin’s first air raid, part I

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Gregory / 5 Comments

What happened to some of the CNAC pilots during the dark days of August, 1937, when a colossal battle between Japan and China erupted in Shanghai.

China's Wings

Evacuating Shanghai, August 1937

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Gregory / 3 Comments

Fleeing Shanghai, August 1937: first in a series of posts about how the China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC) and its people escaped the outbreak of the Ba...

China's Wings

CNAC and the Consolidated Commodore

Posted on April 11, 2012 by Gregory / 1 Comment

CNAC desperately needed airplanes in late 1937, and Bond tipped Colonel Lam to the existence of two Pan Am Commodores languishing in Manila. Beginning in early ...

China's Wings

Three great pilots

Posted on February 4, 2011 by Gregory / 2 Comments

CNAC’s first three Chinese-American pilots: Joy Thom of Los Angeles, Moon Chin of Wing-Wa Village and Baltimore, Donald Wong of Chicago. All three were bo...

China's Wings

The Chungking Airport, probably in 1938

Posted on January 20, 2011 by Gregory / 0 Comment

Chungking’s Sanhupa Airport, probably in 1938, which had the feel of a frontier colony. Because it was built on a Yangtze sandbar, all the buildings on th...

China's Wings

Stinson Detroiter

Posted on December 12, 2010 by Gregory / 10 Comments

The Stinson Detroiter was one of the two airplane types being operated by the China National Aviation Corporation at the opening of China’s Wings, when Wi...

China's Wings/Reading, Writing, and Research

What was, at the time, the world’s most exciting undertaking – flying

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Gregory / 1 Comment

The romance of those beautiful airplanes flying against the backdrop of 1930s China set a hook in my heart. Shirley’s stories and her father’s photos cracked op...

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