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: Chungking
Chinese Airports, then and now, on Business Insider
Here’s an interesting “then and now” story about Chinese airports by Alex Davies published this morning on Business Insider. I helped Alex loc...
The Douglas DC-3 in China, a photogallery
Photos of Douglas DC-3s, C-53s, and C-47s in China and flying the Hump during World War II
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...
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.
The Loening Air Yacht, a photo gallery of the plane in China
A photo gallery of the Loening Air Yacht in China in the 1930s, where it served with the China National Aviation Corporation
Another gallery of DC-2 pictures
Building on my previous post about the DC-2 arriving in China in May, 1935, here are a few more photos of my favorite airplane in China’s Wings:
Old photograph fever sweeps China
Apparently, the Communist party frowned on China's history as "black time," and its scourging of past associations caused most Chinese to purge their family pho...
“Goddamn it, I promised the wife I wouldn’t do this any more.”
it was a chicken or the egg conundrum as to who had arrived first, the pilots or the prostitutes...
The Last Consolidated Commodore
Building on the CNAC and the Consolidated Commodore post I made yesterday, a few weeks ago, Jerry Butsko, a volunteer archivist at the San Diego Air and Space M...