{"id":31,"date":"2013-08-24T05:29:54","date_gmt":"2013-08-24T05:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/aviationpaper\/?p=31"},"modified":"2013-08-24T05:42:36","modified_gmt":"2013-08-24T05:42:36","slug":"the-douglas-dc-7-first-east-to-west-coast-service-non-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/aviationpaper\/?p=31","title":{"rendered":"The Douglas DC-7 – First East-to-West Coast Service Non-Stop"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is another post moved over from my original Sundry Collectibles blog. \u00a0I have some new material that I want to post coming soon. \u00a0I am especially excited by a post card I found this past week showing an airship from 1910 in France. \u00a0More on that later!<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"United_DC7\"<\/a>It’s been a while since I have posted any aviation postcards here, so today we are going to look at this Douglas DC-7. \u00a0This aircraft was, as the card states, the world’s fastest airliner for a time in the 1950’s. \u00a0 Built from 1953 to 1958, it was the last of the big turbo-charged propeller driven aircraft built by Douglas. \u00a0You may recall that the DC-8 was a jet aircraft that Douglas \"United_DC7_0001\"<\/a>came out with starting in 1958 (oh the good old days…when you could develop new passenger aircraft in a few years!)<\/p>\n

Anyway…when this plane was put into service in 1953, it offered the first non-stop airliner service from east coast to west coast. \u00a0It was eight hours, nominally, not the ~five and a half hour trip it is today. \u00a0(Note…if you have ever travelled east to west on a day when the gulf stream is really blowing…then you know that even in a modern jet, the trip can take up to 7 hours or more.)<\/p>\n

According to the\u00a01000 aircraft photos<\/a>\u00a0site (which has this exact postcard photo on its site) this particular aircraft served United Airlines until it was sold in 1964. \u00a0Eventually it was destroyed in a fire at a facility where it was being scrapped. \u00a0Not a very glorious finish for this plane I am afraid.<\/p>\n

Until next time…<\/p>\n

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This is another post moved over from my original Sundry Collectibles blog. \u00a0I have some new material that I want to post coming soon. \u00a0I am especially excited by a post card I found this past week showing an airship … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5,7],"tags":[9,13,10],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-douglas","category-postcard","category-united-airlines","tag-dc-7","tag-douglas","tag-united"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/aviationpaper\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/aviationpaper\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/aviationpaper\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/aviationpaper\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/aviationpaper\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/aviationpaper\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36,"href":"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/aviationpaper\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/aviationpaper\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/aviationpaper\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/aviationpaper\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}