Reporting on the biggest oil-spill disaster in history, the biggest newspaper in New Orleans - the Times-Picayune - alerted readers on 21 July that help was on the way. "A New Orleans company ordered ...
Apart from perhaps the first airplane to ever take to the sky, the Douglas DC-3 and its military counterpart, the C-47 Skytrain, are quite possibly the most important aircraft to have ever flown.
The hulks of seven DC-3 fuselages are parked alongside Basler Turbo Conversions' 75,000-square-foot facility in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Three more DC-3s sit inside, disemboweled, bracketed by yellow ...