The Douglas DC-6 is a piston-powered airliner and cargo aircraft built by the Douglas Aircraft Company from 1946 to 1958. Originally intended as a military transport near the end of World …

Jul 4, 2016 · Douglas, American and United took the lead over TWA and Lockheed in April 1951 with the introduction of the new DC-6B, a slightly stretched DC-6 that would prove to be the …

Owing to the different headings taken by the two planes, TWA's crossing of the Painted Desert line, assuming no further course changes, would be at a 13-degree angle relative to that of the …

TWA Flight 6 was a Transcontinental & Western Air Douglas DC-2, on a route from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey, that crashed near Atlanta, Missouri, on May 6, 1935, killing five of the …

In 2000 there is but one DC-6 still operational, serving as an airtanker, fighting forest fires. This is N90739 (cn43044/84) and it operates for TBM in the USA.

The DC-6 was developed as a faster, larger, and pressurized version of the DC-4 which first flew in 1946. This popular airliner was faster than TWA's new 049 Constellation, and allowed one …

Feb 12, 2016 · As 1959 began TAA had the advantage with its substantial fleet of Viscounts over Ansett's piston fleet of DC-6s and DC-6BS that it had inherited from ANA. Air travel was …

Boarding of a United Airlines DC-6 (N37528) including closing of the boarding door and engine start-up and taxi, a view of a United “Mainliner 230” DC-4, TWA Lockheed Constellation taxiing,...

The DC-6B, originally powered by Double Wasp engines with Hamilton Standard 43E60 constant-speed reversing propellers, was regarded as the ultimate piston-engine airliner from the …

DC·6A (N6118C, c/n 45243) of Alaska Airlines had a short service life, crashing and burning on a GCA approach to Shemya Island, Alaska, less than three years after delivery March 1958. …