Dc-2 (fsx) View detailed images (10) This new boxed release from Flight 1 offers the lesser-known but very well modeled Douglas Corporation model 2 aircraft - the DC-2 for both Flight Simulator X and Flight Simulator 2004*.

Crysis 1 torrent. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Design and development [ ] In the early 1930s, fears about the safety of wooden aircraft structures drove the US aviation industry to develop all-metal airliners. Had exclusive right to the all metal twin-engine; rival issued a specification for an all-metal trimotor. The Douglas response was more radical. When it flew on July 1, 1933, the prototype had a robust tapered wing, retractable landing gear, and two 690 hp (515 kW) radial engines driving. Corel draw 11 free download rar. It seated 12 passengers. TWA accepted the basic design and ordered twenty of the upgraded DC-2s which were longer, had more powerful engines, and carried 14 passengers in a 66-inch-wide cabin.

The design impressed American and European airlines and further orders followed. Although Fokker had purchased a production licence from Douglas for $100,000, no manufacturing was done in Holland. Those for European customers,,, CLS and purchased via in the Netherlands were built and flown by Douglas in the US, sea-shipped to Europe with wings and propellers detached, then erected at airfields by Fokker near the seaport of arrival (e.g. Cherbourg or Rotterdam)., took a similar licence for DC-2s to be delivered in Britain and assigned the company designation Airspeed AS.23, but although a registration for one aircraft was reserved none were built. Another licence was taken by the in Japan; unlike Fokker and Airspeed, Nakajima built five aircraft as well as assembling at least one Douglas-built aircraft. A total of 130 civil DC-2s were built with another 62 for the United States military. In 1935 Don Douglas stated in an article that the DC-2 cost about $80,000 per aircraft if mass-produced.

Operational history [ ] Although overshadowed by its ubiquitous successor, it was the DC-2 that first showed that passenger air travel could be comfortable, safe and reliable. As a token of this, KLM entered its first DC-2 PH-AJU Uiver (Stork) in the October 1934 between London and Melbourne. Out of the 20 entrants, it finished second behind only the purpose-built racer Grosvenor House. During the total journey time of 90 hours, 13 min, it was in the air for 81 hours, 10 min, and won the handicap section of the race. (The DH.88 finished first in the handicap section, but the crew was by regulations allowed to claim only one victory.) It flew KLM's regular 9,000 mile route, (a thousand miles longer than the official race route), carrying mail, making every scheduled passenger stop, turning back once to pick up a stranded passenger, and even became lost in a thunderstorm and briefly stuck in the mud after a diversionary landing at Albury racecourse on the very last leg of the journey.

Variants [ ] Civilian [ ]. Passengers disembark a pre-war Douglas DC-2 aircraft DC-2 156 civil DC-2s, variously powered by two radial piston engines varying in power from 710 to 875 hp (529 to 652 kW). DC-2A Two civil DC-2s, powered by two radial piston engines. DC-2B Two DC-2s sold to, fitted with two 750 hp (560 kW) radial piston engines. Nakajima-Douglas DC-2 Transport DC-2 transports license built in Japan.

Airspeed AS.23 The designation reserved for proposed license-built production by Airspeed Ltd. Military [ ] Modified DC-2s built for the under several military designations. Douglas C-39 transport, a military modified version of the DC-2 C-39 (DC-2-243) 16-seat passenger variant, a composite of DC-2 & DC-3 components, with C-33 fuselage and wings and DC-3 type tail, center-section and landing gear. Powered by two 975 hp (727 kW) radial piston engines; 35 built. C-41 The sole C-41 was a VIP aircraft for Air Corps Chief Oscar Westover(and his successor ). Although supplied against a C-39 order it was not a DC-2 derivative but in fact a DC-3-253 fitted with two 1,200 hp (890 kW) engines.