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    The Douglas World Cruiser (DWC) was developed to meet a requirement from the United States Army Air Service for an aircraft suitable for an attempt at...
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    John Harding Jr. made the trip in two single-engined open-cockpit Douglas World Cruisers (DWC) configured as floatplanes for most of the journey. Lead aircraft...
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  • Dayton, Ohio, to be modified. The modified aircraft known as the Douglas World Cruiser (DWC), also was the first major project for Jack Northrop who designed...
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    (832 kg) aerial torpedo Related development Douglas World Cruiser Francillon, Rene J. (1988). McDonnell Douglas Aircraft since 1920. Vol. 1 (2nd revised ed...
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    175 days, covering 44,360 kilometres (27,560 mi), with examples of the Douglas World Cruiser biplane. In 1949, the Lucky Lady II, a Boeing B-50 Superfortress...
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    Company (founded 1912). He joined the Douglas Aircraft Company in 1923 and worked on the Douglas World Cruiser, where in time he became a project engineer...
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    In 1925, Aleuts were recorded as using the term to describe the Douglas World Cruiser aircraft which passed through Atka on the first aerial circumnavigation...
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  • renamed O-5 for Japanese service from 1920 to 1921 Douglas World Cruiser, also designated as Douglas O-5 De Havilland Canada Dash 7, also designated as...
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    Kinugasa (衣笠) was the second vessel in the two-vessel Aoba class of heavy cruisers in the Imperial Japanese Navy. The ship was named after Mount Kinugasa...
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    museum's Lockheed Super Constellation was stored in the facility. A Douglas World Cruiser reproduction project was also underway in the plant. All remaining...
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