[max_thehitman]

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Skinpack – 1
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Douglas DC-2 = TWA Airlines 1935 - Seattle Museum
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“There is not the slightest doubt that American airliners now surpass the designs of every other country. Without prejudice to the other fine ships, the Douglas DC 2 may be recorded as the supreme American achievement in transport design.” - Scientific American, January 1935

Once TWA took possession of the DC 1, it did not take long for them to realize they had a unique airplane. They saw a chance to recapture the market lost after the Rockne crash, so they ordered 20 more DC 1s with some improvements. Some were in the interest of enhancing performance and others for passenger comfort. Combined these changes resulted in a major redesign of the airframe.

Producing an improved DC 1 was not just a matter of mass producing the DC 1 with some assembly line changes. It meant new drawings, a mock up, and new tooling. The Wright Engine Company had just introduced their 855 hp engine, and with the increased power, Douglas could stretch the DC 1 airframe. He added two feet to the fuselage, which allowed for another row of seats. Stretching the cabin changed the centre of gravity so the wing had to be moved, effectively creating a new transport. The Douglas engineers reviewed the changes and decided to call the new aircraft the Douglas Commercial 2 or DC-2.

TWA received the first of their DC-2s on May 14, 1934, with the delivery of ship #301. It made its first airline flight on May 18, when it flew the Columbus - Newark - Pittsburgh route.
To assure a marketplace, TWA introduced in-flight movies on the new Douglas.
“The Flying Hostess” was the first feature film. This “extra” drew even more passengers.
The DC-2 was such a success that orders poured into the Douglas Santa Monica factory. Douglas had estimated he might have to fill orders for fifty to saturate the market. To Douglas’ surprise, six months after the introduction of the DC-2, he had orders for 75.
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Douglas DC-2 – NC13711, owned by the Museum of Flight in Seattle, has finally arrived in Seattle. Restoration of this airplane began in 1982, when the airplane was leased from the Donald Douglas Museum by the Douglas Historical Foundation - primarily a group of Douglas retirees. When they towed the airplane from Santa Monica to Long Beach, it was a basket case. Thousands of volunteer man-hours over a 20 year period were contributed by many Douglas retirees towards its restoration. After its sale to the Museum of Flight, it was moved to Van Nuys for completion of the lengthy and meticulous restoration by Museum Trustee and Board Member Clay Lacy, at his facilities in Southern California.
The airplane, now completed, was flown from Van Nuys, California to Boeing Field in Seattle on 7 June 2007.
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Douglas DC-3 = TWA Airlines 1937 – 1939
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Early U.S. airlines like United, American, TWA and Eastern ordered over 400 DC-3s. These fleets paved the way for the modern American air travel industry, quickly replacing trains as the favored means of long-distance travel across the United States.

In 1934, following charges of favoritism in the contracts, the Air Mail scandal erupted, leading to the Air Mail Act of 1934 which dissolved the forced Transcontinental and Western merger and ordered the United States Army Air Service to deliver the mail. The T&WA name, however, would stick with Transcontinental as TWA. With the company facing financial hardship, Lehman Brothers and John D. Hertz took over ownership of the company.
The Army fliers experienced a series of crashes, and it was decided to privatize the delivery with the provision that no former companies could bid on the contracts. T&WA added the suffix "Inc." to its name, thus qualifying it as a different company and got 60 percent of its old contracts back starting again in May 1934.

By 1938, Lehman and Hertz began selling their interest in TWA and General Motors began buying stock. Jack Frye (the new TWA president) then approached another flying enthusiast, Howard Hughes, to buy stock. According to John Keats's biography of Hughes, he grumbled, "$15 million! That's a small fortune!" before he agreed and initially bought 25 percent of the airline.
TWA was once again flying high.

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Skinpack – 3
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Douglas DC-3 = TWA Airlines 1941 + Carole Lombard Crash
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Transcontinental and Western Air (TWA) Flight 3 was a twin-engine Douglas DC-3 propliner, registration NC1946, operating as a scheduled domestic passenger flight from New York, NY to Burbank, CA via Indianapolis, IN, Saint Louis, MO, Albuquerque, NM and Las Vegas, NV.
At 04:00 local time on the morning of January 16, 1942, in Indianapolis, Indiana, Carole Lombard, her mother Elizabeth Knight, and her MGM press agent Otto Winkler, boarded Flight 3 to return to California. Lombard, anxious to meet her husband actor Clark Gable in Los Angeles, was returning from a successful War Bonds promotion tour in the Midwest, where she helped raise over US$2,000,000 (she would become the first female casualty of the U.S. war effort in the Second World War.)
Upon arrival in Albuquerque, Lombard and her companions were asked to give up their seats for the continuing flight segment, to make room for 15 U.S. Army Air Corps personnel flying to California. Lombard insisted that because of her War Bonds effort, she too was essential, and convinced the station agent to let her group re-board the flight. Other passengers were removed instead.
After a brief refueling stop at what is now Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas, the plane took off on a clear night, for its final leg to Burbank. Fifteen minutes later, flying nearly seven miles off course, it crashed into a near vertical cliff on Potosi Mountain in the Spring Mountain Range at 7,770 ft, about 80 ft below the top of the cliff and 730 ft below the summit, killing all on board.
All nineteen passengers on board, including movie star Carole Lombard and her mother, and all three crew members, died in the crash.

The Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) investigated the accident and determined it was caused by a navigation error by the captain.
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Hope you have a great flight! ... don´t crash!
Cheers
MAX-theHitman

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[Deutschmark]

As allways Max nicely done skin I like the TWA markings.
I bet you Oleg is having nightmares... :lol:

Deutschmark

[KG64_Cnopicilin]

Once again, thank you for these.

[max_thehitman]

I am happy you are enjoying these skins for the C47 aircraft ...I mean, DC-2 and DC-3 :wink:
This airplane is great fun to fly around and also to test and see all the new maps being made.
I haven´t posted the other screenshots, but these guys are actually trying to get away from a marauding group of Messerschmitt Me-109´s hock: ...but I am happy to say I got away safe, unfortunatly most of my airline passengers were throwing up all over the place due to my acrobatic flying. :lol:
Anyway, I have a few more surprise skins for you all in the coming weeks, so
stay tuned. I think you will enjoy the next collection for this cool bird.
Cheers
MAX

Oh by the way, who wants a polished chrome Heinke He-111 or Me-109-K4 skin? :mrgreen:

[Jimdandy]

~S Awesome skins very very nice thank you.

[Blumax]

Truly outstanding a great set of skins