One of the most successful designs of this period was the Douglas DC-3, which became the first airliner that was profitable carrying passengers exclusively, starting the modern era of passenger airline service.

On December 28, 1948, a Douglas DC-3 aircraft, number NC16002, disappeared while on a flight from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Miami.

* 1952 – Catalina affair: a Swedish Douglas DC-3 is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.

* 2001 – A 50-year-old Douglas DC-3 crashes near Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela killing 24.

During the period there were many attacks on the troops, and an Aden Airlines Douglas DC-3 plane was destroyed in the air with no survivors.

* January 25 – A 50-year-old Douglas DC-3 crashes near Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela, killing 24.

** Albert Guay affair: A dynamite bomb destroys Canadian Pacific Airlines Douglas DC-3 in Quebec.

* December 17 – Douglas DST, prototype of the Douglas DC-3 airliner, first flies, in the United States.

The first flight took place on April 10, 1947 with a twin-engine propeller-driven " Douglas DC-3 " on the Turin-Bologna-Florence-Naples-Reggio Calabria-Palermo.

ATL also became one of many post-war aircraft manufacturers seeking to develop a successor to the then ubiquitous Douglas DC-3 piston airliner that continued playing a prominent role in the fleets of many of the world's airlines well into the 1950s.

In 1932 the 14-passenger Douglas DC-2 flew and in 1935 the more powerful, faster, 21 – 32 passenger Douglas DC-3.

DC-3s were produced in quantity for World War II and sold as surplus afterward. The Douglas DC-3 was a particularly important airplane, because it was the first airliner to be profitable without a government subsidy.

Until the beginning of the Jet Age, piston engines were common on propliners like the Douglas DC-3.

* Douglas DC-3 – still in service more than 70 years after its debut, it is generally regarded as one of the most significant transport aircraft ever made

Other post offices such as the Isle of Man Philatelic Bureau also create special pictorial cancellations as they did in 1985 to mark the anniversary of the aircraft Douglas DC-3.

One of the most successful designs of this period was the Douglas DC-3, which became the first airliner that was profitable carrying passengers exclusively, starting the modern era of passenger airline service.

On December 23, 1948 an Iberia Airlines Douglas DC-3 crashed in bad weather near Gandesa killing all 27 occupants.

The aircraft, " G-AGBB " a Douglas DC-3, was shot down by Luftwaffe Junkers Ju 88C6 maritime fighter aircraft over the Bay of Biscay.

An Eastern Air Lines Douglas DC-3 | DC-3, on display in the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D. C.

) Ltd operated this flight under contract to UK package tour pioneer Vladimir Raitz's Horizon Holidays, using a 32-seat Douglas DC-3 carrying 11 passengers.

When U. S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt presented a Douglas DC-3 as a gift to King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud in 1945, the event marked the Kingdom's gradual development of civil aviation.

* 1945: The first commercial international flight out of the airport was flown by Cubana de Aviación's Douglas DC-3 to Miami on May 15.

The airline's initial fleet comprised four ex-military Douglas Dakotas and three Avro Lancastrians, the 13-seater civil version of the Lancaster Mark 3 bomber.

BAS's takeover of Air Kruise, an independent charter and pleasure flight operator based at Lympne, in March 1953 brought a fleet of all-passenger de Havilland Dragon Rapides and Douglas Dakotas.

The fleet was initially consisted mainly of Douglas DC-3s ( There were thousands of surplus C-47 Dakotas ( the military variant of the DC-3 ) available to help airlines restart operations after the war.

Within Europe, this resulted in BOAC resuming Imperial Airways ' pre-war routes to continental Europe augmented by Royal Air Force Transport Command non-military flights from Croydon Airport, using Douglas Dakotas in RAF livery flown by crews in RAF uniforms, and UK domestic air services operated by the Associated Airways Joint Committee ( AAJC ), which had been formed of several pre-war charter companies on 27 June 1940.

The airline started its operations in June 1947 using two Beech D-18s and three Douglas DC-3 ( C-47 Dakotas ).

The fleet initially consisted of three Douglas C47 Dakotas, two Douglas C54 Sky masters, two Douglas DC-6Bs and one Douglas DC-6B freighter ( later sold to LAC-Colombia ).

It was soon reformed on 1 December 1949, flying Douglas Dakotas, the military transport version of the well-known Douglas DC-3 airliner.

It has been assembled at Kanpur by the Indian Air Forces Aircraft Manufacturing Depot as India seeks to replace its fleet of Douglas Dakotas.

Initially, about 150 Douglas Dakotas and 40 Avro Yorks were used to fly supplies into Gatow.

In June 1943 a second squadron, No. 512, equipped with Douglas Dakotas was split off from No 24.

Larger Douglas Dakotas were added to the Ikeja-based fleet from 1957.

The Squadron was transferred to the newly formed Transport Command in March 1943, and was re-equipped with Douglas Dakotas from August, although a flight of Harrows were retained as air ambulances.

Douglas ' provision, which Lincoln opposed, specified settlers had the right to determine locally whether to allow slavery in new U. S. territory, rather than have such a decision restricted by the national Congress.

Some eastern Republicans even favored the reelection of Douglas for the Senate in 1858, since he had led the opposition to the Lecompton Constitution, which would have admitted Kansas as a slave state.

Later in the 1960s and 1970s, Edmund Leach and his students Mary Douglas and Nur Yalman, among others, introduced French structuralism in the style of Lévi-Strauss ; while British anthropology has continued to emphasize social organization and economics over purely symbolic or literary topics, differences among British, French, and American sociocultural anthropologies have diminished with increasing dialogue and borrowing of both theory and methods.

Claims have been made for Manu Dibango's " Soul Makossa " ( 1972 ), Jerry Butler's " One Night Affair " ( 1972 ), the Hues Corporation's " Rock the Boat " ( 1973 ), George McCrae's " Rock Your Baby " ( 1974 ), and " Kung Fu Fighting " ( 1974 ) by Biddu and Carl Douglas.

Douglas Hunter, in Half Moon ( 2009 ), believes Hudson may not have mentioned his supposed discovery of the island because he was " loath to address a crew insurrection that might well have erupted at that time, when the men realized where he was trying to take them.

Douglas hoped popular sovereignty would enable democracy to triumph, so he would not have to take a side on the issue of slavery.

Instead the president and cabinet submitted to Douglas an alternative plan that would have sought out a judicial ruling on the constitutionality of the Missouri Compromise.

Although officially denied by the Nigerian government, Nigeria is known to have also provided secret military training at the Kaduna first mechanized army division and provided other material support to Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe's guerrilla forces during the Rhodesian Bush War ( Renamed Zimbabwe in 1979 ) of independence against white minority rule of Prime Minister Ian Douglas Smith which was armed and financed by the regime in South Africa.

In response, philosophers Douglas Rasmussen and Douglas Den Uyl have argued that Nozick misstated Rand's case.

Douglas L. Holt, the State Extension Specialist for Food Safety at the University of Missouri, notes that no reported cases of potato-source solanine poisoning have occurred in the U. S. in the last 50 years, and most cases involved eating green potatoes or drinking potato-leaf tea.

But this legend appears for the first time in only a much later account, " Tales of a Grandfather " by Sir Walter Scott, and may have originally been told about his companion-in-arms Sir James Douglas ( the " Black Douglas "), who had spent time hiding out in caves within his manor of Lintalee, which was then occupied by the English.

There have also been a trio of television versions, with Melvyn Douglas and Ed Begley in 1965, Jason Robards and Kirk Douglas in 1988, and Jack Lemmon and George C. Scott in 1999.

In the 1983 movie The Star Chamber, Michael Douglas, playing an idealistic Los Angeles Superior Court judge frustrated about having to free obviously guilty criminals merely because of legal technicalities, learns from his mentor about a secret cabal of judges — a Star Chamber — that metes out its own brand of justice against those it determines have wrongly been set free.

Moves to impeach sitting justices have occurred more recently ( for example, William O. Douglas was the subject of hearings twice, once in 1953 and again in 1970 ), but they did not reach a vote in the House.

The islands were heavily logged in the nineteenth century but now have an extensive second-growth Coast Douglas fir ( Pseudotsuga menziesii var.

It is also known for the large number of famous people who have been treated there, including mathematician John Nash, Douglas S. Holder, who ran poetry groups in inpatient wards for over a decade, published Poems of Boston and Just Beyond: From the Back Bay to the Back Ward.

Moore may have heard Douglas Engelbart, a co-inventor of today's mechanical computer mouse, discuss the projected downscaling of integrated circuit size in a 1960 lecture.

Douglas hoped popular sovereignty would enable democracy to triumph, so he would not have to take a side on the issue of slavery.

These books also gave rise to claims that he may have had relationships with both roommates Paul Ivano and Douglas Gerrad, as well as Norman Kerry, openly gay French actor Jacques Herbertot and André Daven.

Many airliners have also been modified for government use as VIP transports and for military functions such as airborne tankers ( for example, the Vickers VC10, Lockheed L1011, Boeing 707 ), air ambulance ( USAF / USN McDonnell Douglas DC-9 ), reconnaissance ( Embraer ERJ 145, Saab 340, Boeing 737 ), as well as for troop-carrying roles.

If one film could be said to have established a new high-bench mark for special effects, it would be 1968's 2001: A Space Odyssey, directed by Stanley Kubrick, who assembled his own effects team ( Douglas Trumbull, Tom Howard, Con Pedersen and Wally Veevers ) rather than use an in-house effects unit.