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From: Chuck.Weinstock@a.sei.cmu.edu
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Subject: Transportation Mailing List
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Date: Tue, 31-Dec-85 11:03:12 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 31 11:03:12 1985
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I, for one, would like to see the Railroad list include discussions of
issues on trains, planes, ships, trucks, and buses.  Would this turn people
off?

This month is the 50th anniversary of the DC3 or Gooney Bird.  This is the
remarkable aircraft that made commercial airlines possible.  Prior to this,
no aircraft had the range or payload to allow the operation of passenger
service to be generally profitable.  Something in excess of 10,000 of these
aircraft were built, and it is a testimonial to their lack of planned
obsolescence that approximately 2,000 are flying today, some in scheduled
service in the United States.  Interestingly, I believe that more DC3's are
still flying than Boeing built 727's.

Chuck