Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 March 1949 — Page 15

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INDIANA MUSIC cO. American Airlines Start to Toss

» hii ‘Dizzy Three' Into the Ash Can

By 8. BURTON HEATH, NEA Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Mar, 18—The famous old DC-3, “workhorse of the air lanes,” is on the skids, and all -over the civilized world airmen are bemoaning its passing as men haven't wept about a vehicle since Ford stopped making the Model T.

place their DC-3s too, mostly with 40-passenger, 340 - mile - an - hour

But canny planemaker Donald progress—but not all. | {Douglas says it's too soon to cry.| One who is keeping them Is The “Old Doug” hasn't stopped pqs Rickenbacker, famous auto

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for a long time to come, {

all money-maker in a red-lnk busi-

more probably, in fact, than of lother passenger-type planes put

land women have flown in DC-3s{me $11.000,000 to develop a new

” b Ml ; 4 ‘ " ’ ’ than in any other plane—perhaps A al aT u dme gq E more than in all other planes IEEE combined. : ome

m { 6000 Still Flying ’ ss | - It was “Old Doug,” designed to {fly peaceful passengers around {the United States, that fed, fueled |

HAROLD GLICKMAN* |and provided ammunition for the i"

‘American forces across the Rhine for weeks until bridges could be| built. | Some of the stories told about {the DC-3 would’ he" unbelievable {if they were not confirmed. Its icivilian version is a 21-passenger (plane, which pilots took up with

. Haynes flew 75 persons out of Burma in a pinch. Capt. Harold Sweet flew 61 from Chungking to India after ‘coolies had patched more than 1000" Jap bullet-holes with canvas yr J cut from a missionary’s awning. | Tropical rains loosened the Restaurant manager has patches, and they blew off—but|

s + t i switched to lighter, he plane made India, whistling

: so loud that an Army major on smoother Calvert Reserve [the ground said: “We could hear AAA for hi I drink. {you coming 50 miles away.” or nis occasionai Arin | About 11,000 DC-3s were built! $ 1 00 ul ip Foancinn. Cob and about 500 still are flying all ve! e world. { : CALVERT RESERVE Blended Whiskey American Airlines is discarding | ees © clan £5 Rew Foy 5 pi A np 1 44 LL 18;. Braniff 1 17, other lines smaller » Mii of. nt rR 1 by , rman ! SAME $100 DEALING RITE'S : : 1 (WRIGHT'S) oes OFFER GOOD VALUES NILY ON LONG TIME CREDIT . A —— 98 - ; . D s1 Jown =] Weekly . : pe :

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Airmen Bemoan Passing Of Sky-Lanes

{short-haul plane. 1 couldn't pos-|

the ‘business for ‘a few years, if {rom 21 to as many as 28, step \non-support of his family, exthey can. I'll keep that $11,000,- up the speed from 180 to 234 plained that he was a tomato {miles an hour, install swept-back|ngcker “and this is the dull sea-

wings and new fail assembly, put) " A \ yd up a permanent market In pas-|;,ading stairs on the door and son,” Municipal Judge Jennie L.

000 and use it when I can open

senger jets. . generally jazz up the whole Job. | “There's no reason for you to Says Rickenbacker: New planes + Somewhat Slower {wait for the tomatoes to grow | would cost me around $500,000 For every DC-3 thus re-built, before going to work.” | The good old “Dizzy Three” is being tossed into the ash can each. Long before they were paid the owner saves $300,000 under | COUNTING BEES’ NOSES this spring by American -Airlines, biggest of domestic carriers. cor passenger jets will be along. the cost of a repiacement, plus| Tne population of a colony of Other major lines will soon. be- numbers. The Air Force has 500,/T'll keep those millions, and have about $29,000 extra per plane it bees includes one queen, 100 or the Navy another 300. Most of [jets on Bastern while: the other would cost to train crew and more drones, and from 5000 tol Convairs and Martin 202s. lthese probably will give way to'boys still are paying for these in- ground men. And for thé bene- aol { /{terim jobs. |fit of dollar-shy Europe, Douglas, The ace up Douglas’ sleeve is plans to do work over there, so

| _ He figures that dollars will have to be used) His remodeiting idea gu 1g [only for parts and overhead [

that a lot of concerns that can

|hardest-boiled operator in the air atford $500,000 a plane for re- When he is done the Super- | | More DC-38 have been built/transport field, where his Eastern pjacement—and a lot of the 3000 DC-3 will be smaller, slower, old{than any other single plane — Airlines has been the one big 1C.3 owners abroad who can'ter than its post-war two-engine get American dollars--can spendirivals. But with 20 jassengers— up to $200,000 for a machine al- a fair average for local runs—it together. More millions of men | Says Douglas: It would cost most as good 4s the Martin. or wili cost 2/3 of a cent less to the Convair. carry each passenger a mile, and, | S80 he offered to revamp any on a 350-mile hop it will be only; |sibly get that back before jets DC-3 for around $200,000. Hel l4 minutes slower than the new| {come in. Let the other boys take will increase the passenger space planes,

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