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 ...LIGHT International, 18 September 1975
LIBRARY
All aboard
No 13 Boeing 247
The Boeing 247 was the first of the United
States' clean twin-engined all-metal mono
plane transports with retractable under
carriage. A source of criticism was the
obstruction of the ...
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 ...1934. FLIGHT. 1121
D.H. COMET.225 h.p. D.H. Gipsy Six R.
Gross wt. 5,320 lb.WmR Area 188.5 sq. ft.
Fuel 26o gallons.
DOUGLAS D.C.2.715 h.p. Wright Cyclone F3
Gross wt. 17,880 lb.Wing Area 940 sq. ft.
BOEING 247-D TRANSPORT.550 h.p. Pratt & Whitney Wasp SIHI-G.
Wing Area 836 sq. ft.
BIG CLAUS AND LITTLE CLAUS : Front elevations, to the same scale, of the De Havilland " Comet,"the Douglas D.C.2, and...
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 ...90 FLIGHT
"Flight" photograph
"The first transport aeroplane of 'modern' design can be said to have been the Boeing 247 . . ." This is the first 247D, which had variable-
pitch propellers and higher supercharging; it was third in the "speed" category of the 1934 England-Australia race.
Origins of the Modern ...
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 ...I8O FLIGHT, NOVEMBER 8,. 1934,
COMMERCIAL
^AIRLINES ——
VIATION
THIRD IN THE SPEED RACE
Another Interesting American Commercial Type Described—the Boeing 247-D.
This is an Improved Version of the 247, a Fleet of which were Delivered to
United Air Lines last year
SIXTY Boeing 247 ten-passengermonoplanes were delivered toUnited Air Lines during 19...
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 ...rm ofconstruction and Douglas had manufactured 38 of his Gamma
design. Douglas now proposed to T.W.A. a twin-engined all-metal stressed-skin monoplane of rather similar general con-
figuration to the Boeing 247 but incorporating several Northropdesign features, including notably long-chord N.A.C.A. engine
cowlings.
Work on the one and only DC-1 prototype started early in 1933and the aircraft flew ...
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 ...F.M.4,
operating on the Bellini-Tosi principle, is to be installed.
U.S. TRANSPORT NOTES
As the first commercial transport type plane to be
equipped with two-row engines, the all-metal, low-wing
Boeing 247-A has been undergoing flight tests at Seattle.
Performance figures have not yet been announced. The
Boeing 247-A is to be turned over to the United Aircraft &
Transport Corporation for e...
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 ...-Salt Lake, Chicago-
Omaha, Salt Lake-Seattle, Salt Lake-
Portland, Portland-Spokane, San Diego-
Seattle, Los Angeles-San Francisco,
Cheyenne-Denver and Seattle-Vancouver.
Fleet: 24 Douglas D.C.3, 31 Boeing 247
and 1 Boeing 40; 10 Douglas D.C.3 still
on order according to latest informa-
tion.
WESTERN AIR EXPRESS CORP.,
Union Air Terminal, Burbank, Calif.—
Routes served: Salt Lake City-San
Diego, ...
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 ...ne is
flying, and the speed thereof, but, inconsistently, passen-
gers are informed if bad weather is likely to be en-
countered.
Mr. Gordon England then gave an account of a flight
which he did in a Boeing 247 of United Air Lines between
New York and Chicago, the flight being made during the
night. He was collected at his hotel by a very comfort-
able Cadillac five-seater car. The checking of his...
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 ...
mile at a height of about five metres at up to 40 m.p.h.—
powered by a 200 h.p. Bugatti water-cooled engine, at a
loaded weight of 4,3001b.
Third of the classic between-the-wars aircraft was the
Boeing 247 ten-passenger low-wing transport monoplane,
first flown by Eddie Allen at Boeing Field, Seattle at
noon on February 8, 1933. There was no prototype and
the B.247 went straight into produ...
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 ...054 FLIGHT. OCTOBER IT, 1934,
ON TEST : Col. Roscoe Turner and Mr. Clyde Pangborn flying the Boeing 247-D on a test flightbefore shipping it to this country. The machine is now at Heston.
the "Comet" cleared the obstacle during the take-og tests
by 120ft. Ratier variable pitch airscrews were ...
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 ...irLines, which had just been formed out of an amalgamation of a
number of earlier operators, including Boeing Air Transport) toa. civil development of the B-9 configuration. The result was the
famous Boeing 247 transport, which made its first flight onFebruary 8, 1933, and started airline service less than two months
later. The scale of American production, even at this early date,is shown by the ...
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 ...84 FLIGHT, 23 December 1960
THE DC-3 IS TWENTY-FIVE...
a project for a twin-engined low-wing monoplane specificallyintended to beat the Boeing 247, some details of which were
reaching Santa Monica from the Boeing plant at Seattle, 1,000miles away to the north. The project is said to have been com-
pleted in five days and final details...
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 ...bs," petrol
dumping, the
throttles and the
pitch of the
Hamilton air-
screws are all
controlled from
this compact
assembly in
tha Douglas.
(Above) The installation of one of the landing
lights in the Boeing 247 -D, showing the neat
method of screening.
(Below) A case of maps and charts, complete
with pencils, protractors and compasses in the
Panderjager.
Evidently one engine had failed to
pick up,...
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 ...t Plesses, near Paris, owing to bad
weather; F/O. C. G. Davies had landed somewhere south
of Paris for fuel; and Hewitt's " Dragon Six " somewhere
near Boulogne.
TUP
THIRD TO ARRIVE IN AUSTRALIA: The Boeing 247-D (2-SIH1-G "Wasp "), taxying in at MildenhalT after
flying over from Martlesham Heath, where it had been weighed. (Flight Photo....
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 ...LIGHT International. 23 July 1970
TWA ordered 20 DC-Is, above right, in August 1933 to counter the threat of the Boeing 247 in United service and put the stressed-skin, long-cowled
and flapped DC-2 into service in July '34. KLM flew them to the Far East. Above, this Douglas Dolphin was used to inaugurate an air...
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 ...he 1971 Experimental Aircraft Association
fly-in will be held at Oshkosh, Winsconsin, from August 1
to 7. The organisers promise a "virtual antique airline"
on display, including a Ford Tri-motor, Boeing 247, DC-2,
DC-3 and Dragon Rapide. Among the new home-built
designs on show will be Jim Bede's BD-5 Micro.
Australian round-the-world attempt Two South Austra
lian pilots, Trev Brougham and...
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 ... H.
Airspeed Envoy AS6.
18b hp Wolseley AR9
Cross wl 5,300 Ib.
Wing Area 299 sq It.
Fuel 170 gallons 4. 44. S. & H
Douglas D.C2.
715 h.p. Wright Cyclone F3
Cross wl. 17,880 Ib
Wtng Area 940 sq.
5. S.
Boeing 247-D Transport.
550 h.p Pratt.& Whitney Wasp SIHI-C.
Wing Area 836 sq. ft
6. S.
Pander S.4.
420 h.p. Wright Whirlwind E2
w«ij Area 484 sq. It.
7. H.
Desoutfer Mark II.
120 h.p DH. &psy III
11....
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1 Bull! Flying Bull Pup, L.A.I ...
NATIONAL AIRWAYS, INC.
3 Stinson, S.M.eGOO, Airliner ...
NATIONAL AIR TRANSPORT. • •••
10 Boeing, 95
5 Ford 5 A TC. .
2 Boeing 40-B .-.
2 Boeing 40 B.4 ...
7 Boeing 247
NATIONAL PARKS AIRWAYS, INC.
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4 Fokker-Sup. Universa1 ...
2 Boeiug, 40 B.4
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 ...ying 15 to 30 passengers. It is in this group
that some of the most distinct technical advances
have been made in recent times. The race for
efficiency was really started by the Douglas D.C.I
and the Boeing 247 which, incorporating " all
modern conveniences," turned quite topsy-turvy
many preconceived notions about commercial
flying. Emphasis was on speed, though silence
and comfort, particularly ...
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 ...e usually
Much pioneer work has been done in the U.S.A. with the enclosing of
geared and supercharged engines in long-chord cowlings. This view
shows the mounting of one of the 550 h.p. Wasps in a Boeing 247-D.
of the vee type, and when driving pusher propellers at
speeds, say, below 60 m.p.h., were prone to gross over
heating. The vee-type Renault—the first stationary air-
cooled engine to ...
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