CHRIS CLIFFORD reviews Flight Craft’s book on the legendary Douglas DC-3 and how to model it.
There have been various books on the DC-3 and C-47 over the years, but none to my knowledge touch on the subject of modelling this famous aircraft. However, Pen & Sword’s FLIGHT CRAFT imprint has stepped in to provide at least a basic round-up of building the DC-3, as well as offering reference on the real machine.
More than half of this perfect-bound, 84-page softback examines the type’s development and career after a brief focus on its forerunners, the DC-1 and DC-2. User airlines and routes are described, there is narrative on the DC-3’s powerplants, and even a section on the DC-2/3 in wartime, exploring different countries’ employment of the aircraft.
Post-war DC-3s are visited too, along with the type’s contemporaries and successors, before the book lists the various versions, with descriptions of each. Colour is provided by pilot Simon Lannoy’s personal account of flying the machine with Intra Airways from Jersey, on European routes. The period photos used throughout the book are generally good and useful, a scattering of colour shots being among them; even a DC-3 floatplane version features in one glorious colour study.
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