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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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    (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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  • 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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    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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    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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    Furutaka) was the lead ship in the two-vessel Furutaka-class of heavy cruisers in the Imperial Japanese Navy. The ship was named after Mount Furutaka...
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    22 hours, 24 minutes, and 9 seconds Two open-cockpit biplanar Douglas World Cruiser floatplanes of the United States Army Air Service, piloted by Lowell...
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    circumnavigation of the world by air, accomplished by the U.S. Army in a fleet of special custom built aircraft named the Douglas World Cruiser, took off from...
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    originally used, as well as ambitious projects such as a replica Douglas World Cruiser and Focke-Wulf Fw 190D by Flug Werk of Germany. Allison's internal...
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  • Havilland DH-4 Douglas A-4C Skyhawk Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket Douglas DC-3 Douglas DC-7 – Nose Only Douglas SBD-6 Dauntless Douglas World Cruiser DWC-2 Chicago...
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  • first aerial circumnavigation of the world, the westbound United States Army Air Service flight of Douglas World Cruisers arrive in northern Japan, completing...
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  • standards Deep water culture, of hydroponics Diamond wire cutting Douglas World Cruiser, a 1923 aircraft Subarctic climate (Köppen classification) This...
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    Frederick Martin (general) (category United States Army Air Service pilots of World War I)
    major at the time, commanded the circumnavigation and piloted the Douglas World Cruiser Seattle, until he crashed in a remote portion of the Alaskan Aleutian...
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    the first aerial circumnavigation world flight in 1924. Lt. Harding was the co-pilot of the Douglas World Cruiser: New Orleans. He and the other aviators...
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    44-33954 Curtiss P-40E Warhawk de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver 1207 Douglas World Cruiser "Seattle" Fairchild 24G 2933 Grumman G-21A Goose B-102 Grumman G-44...
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    Atlantic — Alcock & Brown First flight around the world — Nelson & Smith using Douglas World Cruisers First non-stop coast to coast U.S. mail service —...
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    of the First World War. Flying Machines Press. ISBN 9781891268090. Gray, Peter; Thetford, Owen (1970). German Aircraft of the First World War (2nd ed.)...
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    Leander class was a class of eight light cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the early 1930s that saw service in World War II. They were named after mythological...
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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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    Paul Mantz (category United States Army Air Forces personnel of World War II)
    battery to the Douglas World Cruiser that had "dead-sticked" into a field on its way to San Francisco for a celebration of the world flight. Mantz applied...
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    USS Richmond (CL-9) (category World War II cruisers of the United States)
    first aerial circumnavigation of the world. On 2 August, she attempted to take in tow the Douglas World Cruiser "Boston", downed on the Atlantic Ocean...
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    in a pair of Douglas World Cruisers of the United States Army Air Service completed an aerial east–west circumnavigation of the world starting and ending...
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  • Round Erik Henning Nelson, see First aerial circumnavigation and Douglas World Cruiser Eric Nelson (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles...
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    Lowell Smith (category United States Army Air Service pilots of World War I)
    August 28, both in a De Havilland DH-4B. Smith also piloted the Douglas World Cruiser Chicago, which along with one other made the first aerial circumnavigation...
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    United States Army Air Service (category Aviation in World War I)
    first high-ranking casualty of World War I Arthur Raymond Brooks, World War I ace Dick Calkins, comic strip artist Douglas Campbell, first American ace...
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    similar designs developed by Douglas in the early 1920s (including the Douglas World Cruisers used in the first round-the-world flight in 1924). The C-1 featured...
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