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Build Douglas TM DC-3 TM 11 ™ www.model-space.com Build Douglas DC-3 Pack 11 Published in the UK by De Agostini UK Ltd, Battersea Studios 2, 82 Silverthorne Road, Visual Identity System | Officially licensedLondon product identity SW8 mark 3HE Page Published in the USA by De Agostini Publishing USA, Inc., The many lives of the DC-3™ Boeing915 OLP Broadway, identity Suite mark 609, | Size New York, NY 10010 247 While the twin-engined Douglas™ Ideally, thePackaged OLP mark should appear by inContinuo ratio of 1:2 Creative, 39-41 North Road, was disappearing from the scene of the licensee’s logo or lettermark and no smaller than the minimumLondon sizes shown N7 below 9DP for print and web applications. as an operational aircraft, it was p247-254 images from the Giorgio Apostolo Collection becoming increasingly famous. All rights reserved © 2015 The iconic DC-3 now held a place in the public imagination, thanks Items may vary from those shown. Not suitable for children under the age of 14. partly to its appearances in films Boeing licensingThis identity product mark — dimensional is not a toy and is not designed or intended for use in play. and comics, on stamps, coins, Minimum size 13Produced mm (0.5 in, 3 picas) under license. PAN AM logos are trademarks of OFFICIALLY LICENSED playing cards and postcards. PRODUCT Pan American World Airways, Inc. Produced under license. Boeing, Douglas, Boeing Airplane Company, DC-3, OFFICIALLY Minimum size 54 pixels (web) LICENSED OFFICIALLY 247, Douglas World Cruiser, and the distinctive Boeing logos, product markings LICENSED PRODUCT PRODUCT and trade dress are trademarks of The Boeing Company. ASSEMBLY GUIDE Right wing and engines 255 Paints and Complete the right wing and modelling tools two engines, and fit them A comprehensive selection of modelling tools to the fuselage. and paints (in all the colours you will need to complete your Douglas DC-3) is available from the Model Space website. www.model-space.com ™ Boeing Corporate Identity Program Revision: July 26, 2004 www.model-space.com xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxe The many lives of the DC-3 hile gradually disappearing as an Woperational aircraft, the DC-3, both as a civilian and a military plane, was occupying an altogether more permanent place in the public’s imagination. Few aircraft over the years have acquired its iconic status and few have succeeded in characterising a period as the twin-engined Douglas has done. Immortalised in many famous films, it has also appeared in comic strips, on stamps and playing cards and all kinds of other objects, from ephemera such as postcards and advertisements to smartphone covers. A Lisunov Li-2 belonging to the Russian airline Aeroflot. The Li-2, originally designated PS-84 (passenger aeroplane 84), was a version of the Douglas DC-3 built under licence at Factory #84 in Khimki in Moscow and, after that site’s wartime evacuation in 1941, at a factory in Tashkent. The plane was named after the director of the project, aeronautical engineer Boris Pavlovich Lisunov. Build Douglas DC-3 247 All this is because, almost 80 years after The DC-3 and the film industry year in Meet John Doe (dir. Frank Capra). going into service, the DC-3 continues Also in 1941, with subtle references to the to have numerous admirers, among The DC-3 has attracted the attention of ongoing WWII, it appeared in Emergency both aircraft enthusiasts and the general film-makers since it first appeared in the Landing (dir. William Beaudine), and in public. This enthusiasm is not about to skies. In 1938, the twin-engine Douglas Flying Blind (dir. Frank McDonald), then in diminish, in view of the number of DC- made an appearance in Test Pilot, directed 1942 in Crossroads (dir. Jack Conway). 3s still operational and the number of by Victor Fleming; in 1938, in Ninotchka, But it had not yet reached the peak of its organisations involved in restoring and (dir. Ernst Lubitsch); in 1940, in My Favorite success. Between the late 1940s and the flying old aircraft. Wife (dir. Garson Kanin) and the following mid-1950s, the DC-3 continued to appear A Dakota and, in the background, the Rock of Gibraltar, photographed at the beginning of October 1943. The C-47’s game- changing role in World War II was enough to guarantee its success in the post-war film industry. A central element in all historical reconstructions, it is still an object of fascination today, as illustrated by its appearances in, for instance, Steven Above, paratroops being dropped from C-47s Spielberg’s Saving Private during World War II. The photograph shows the Ryan (1998) and in the campaign in Markham Valley, New Guinea, which Spielberg-produced TV took place in September 1943. Concealed by a series Band of Brothers. smokescreen, the men attacking Nadzab airport are the United States 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment and the 2nd/4th Field Regiment of the Australian Army. After World War II, ex-service C-47s were readily available and they were used frequently in movies. 248 Build Douglas DC-3 The many lives of the DC-3 A DC-2 with TWA livery, which is now at the Museum The DC-3 on of Flight in Seattle. The present state of the aircraft is stamps and coins the result of a long restoration project, started in 1982 by members of the Douglas he DC-3 has found a place in many Historical Foundation and Tspheres of interest, and it has proven completed in 2007 under the very popular among the devotees of supervision of the staff of the philately and numismatics – that is, the museum. After its restoration collecting of stamps and coins. At least 95 was completed, the aircraft countries have issued stamps depicting was flown to its present location from Van Nuys, the DC-3 or the C-47 (including versions California, with stopovers in such as the Lisunov Li-2 and the Nakajima Sacramento, California, and L2D). These include Afghanistan, Cuba, Eugene, Oregon. Egypt, the Philippines, Germany, Iceland, Jersey, Panama, Turkey, the Unites States, Switzerland and Venezuela. Stamps showing the DC-2 have been issued by 15 countries (including Curaçao, Finland, Japan and the Dutch Indies), and in some cases also the DC-1 (for instance, Samoa). This is without taking into account other products such as postcards, leaflets, envelopes and special cancellations. In numismatics, there have been various commemorative issues. Coins representing in films, mainly to add local colour to stories of the events in Word War II. Films such the twin-engined Douglas have been issued set in the previous decade (Casbah, dir. as The Longest Day (1962) and The by, among others, the Isle of Man (1 crown, copper and nickel, 1995), the Republic of the John Berry, 1948), or popping up in more Battle of the Bulge (1965) (both dir. Ken Congo, formerly Congo Brazzaville (500 and modern pieces such as Roman Holiday Annakin), Patton (dir. Franklin Schaffner, 1,000 francs, both in silver in 2002, and a 500-franc coin showing the DC-2, in silver, (dir. William Wyler, 1953) and Written on 1970) and A Bridge Too Far (dir. Richard 2004,) and by the Solomon Islands (25 the Wind (dir. Douglas Sirk, 1956). Attenborough, 1977) popularised the C-47 dollars, silver, 2003, as well as a gold-plated version in a limited edition). But what really raised the DC-3 to cult and reinforced its enduring status as a status were the great reconstructions ‘technical icon’ of the war in Europe. Build Douglas DC-3 249 This process was further accelerated by The popularity of the aircraft shows no America (dir. Roger Spottiswoode, 1990), dramatic and popular war films such as The sign of waning with time. More recently, in White Hunter Black Heart (dir. Clint Bridge on the River Kwai (dir. David Lean, the Dakota has been seen on the big Eastwood, who also starred, 1990), in 1957), The Dirty Dozen (dir. Robert Aldrich, screen in The Wild Geese (dir. Andrew Traffic (dir. Steven Soderbergh, 2001) 1967, and its sequel, dir. Andrew McLaren, McLaglen, 1978), and in the barnstorming and in the James Bond film Quantum 1985), Night of the Eagle (dir. John Sturges, Indiana Jones adventures by Steven of Solace (dir. Marc Foster, 2008). It has 1976) and also – in this case the Vietnam Spielberg (1981-2008), plus Spielberg’s been calculated that, to date, the DC-3 War – The Green Berets, directed by and groundbreaking television series Band starring John Wayne, in 1968. of Brothers. The plane was seen in Air Close-up of C-47A PH- DDA of the Dutch Dakota Association at the Royal International Air Tattoo at Fairford, England, in 1985. On 25 September 1996, PH-DDA crashed into the sea near Texel (one of the West Frisian Islands, off the coast of the Netherlands), causing the deaths of all 32 people on board. Visible at the bottom right of the photograph is the rudder of DC-3A 191A N4565L. This aircraft is More aircraft at the 1985 Royal International Air now on display at the South Tattoo at Fairford. In the centre of the photograph Yorkshire Aircraft Museum in is C-47A N53ST/531323/53-T (c/n 9380) ‘Col. Doncaster, England. Michael C. Thomas’ (1942), now on display at Luke Air Force Base, Phoenix, Arizona. Behind it, in the distance, there is a glimpse of C-47A-70-DL PH-DDA (c/n 19109, 1943) of the Dutch Dakota Association, and in the foreground, top left, is the nose of R4D-6 N151ZE (c/n 50783), built at the Douglas plant in Oklahoma City in October 1944.