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The Douglas That Never Was

Moses03

Moses03

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The jet age ended any hope of this one ever being built. Too bad! I think it would be been a very fast and efficient turboprop. Nice looking as well.

Douglas DC-7D:

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Thats waycool. I'd read yonks back that the DC-7 was designed with an eye to turbine power, but I'd never seen any illistrations.It looks a little like, but better than, an IL-18. We used to see the guys from T&G with their 7 over from Alaska, pulling loads out of Whitehorse and Dawson. One time during the big fire bust in '98, we had a DC-7, 2 DC-6's, 3 Fire cats, and 5 A-26 pulling loads out to the Granger fire. 90 seconds from the end of the runway. we ran out of mud, did something dumb like 800 loads in 36 hours. Then a gaggle of P-51's and B-25's start comming through for gas on the way back from an airshow in Alaska.
It looked like 1945 that day.
 
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