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1PC3, World's Most Famous Airliner, Refuses To Retire $T ROBERT J. SERLING 3fiied Press Correspondent Washington iW The 3Pcld's most famous airliner rUstf to retire. Thtt would be the DC3. Th 25-year-old transport plane is known as the C47 to the Air Force, the Dakota to the British, R4D to the Navy and "the best plane ever built" to thousands of pilots. Recently the International Air Transport association found that 694 DC3s are still being used in scheduled pas senger service throughout the world, more than any other single type. For a plane de signed a quarter century ago, that is the most remarkable record in aviation history. The Douglas Aircraft Co. began building the DC3 in 1933. It turned out nearly 12.000 and half of them are still flying. About 250 are used by 22 scheduled airlines in the United States. Carries Many Passengers Douglas estimates that the DC3 has carrier nearly 500 million passengers in the past 25 years. The DC3 always has been a "pilot's plane." Easy to han dle, untemperamental, respon sive as a baby carriage and almost completely forgiving of mistakes made in the cockpit. Its one fault: Leaks in the cockpit windshields during rain, which led one pilot to radio "light rain outside, heavy rain inside." It is one of the strongest planes ever built. A year ago, a frontier air lines DC3 ripped 12 feet from its left wing when it hit a mountain. The pilot turned around and flew 40 miles back to an airport. The DC3 was designed to carry 21 passengers and a crew of three. Later models carried 26 passengers. Used in World War II In World War II, a DC3, operated by a Chinese airline took off with 74 passengers aboard. Other DC3s have been known to carry 60 persons. Domestic airlines limit the DC3 to a gross take-off weight of a little more than 25,000 pounds. During the war, the Air Transport Command regu larly flew its DC3s with a gross weight of 31,000 pounds WRITER DIES Brooklin, Mass. 1? Don ald Moffat, 63, book and mag azine writer, died at his home here Sunday. He was a fre quent contributor to the New Yorker and other periodicals. and they have been known to fly safely with 35,000. The DC3 was a Godsend to the nation's struggling airlines in the early 30s. One airline president called it "the first plane that could make money just hauling passengers." Five years after it was in troduced by American Air lines and TWA, the DC3 com prised 90 per cent of Amer ica's commercial air fleet. No pilot was surprised when the plane also became an aerial workhorse in Vorld War II. DC3s flew millions of tons of wartime cargo, serv ed as airborne ambulances, flew paratroopers into combat and became a welcome sight at allied airfields all over the world. Europe Makes Ready For Recession In Case Decline Spreads From U. S. MAIL TRIBUNE, MedforJ, Oregon, Men Jay, May 5, 1958 7 London (IPI - The U. S. recession so far has stayed on its own side of the Atlantic. But Europe is getting ready for economic trouble just in case. A United Press survey showed today that Western European nations have suf fered few, if any, effects of America's economic trouble. And countries which have been hit are not even close to serious trouble. Despite rising unemploy ment figures in the United States, more American tour ists than ever are expected to spend their vacations and money in Europe during the summer season. Possibly the country with the most economic problems is Britain. Unemployment is on the rise and some sections of. the nation's economy have been hard hit. But the overall figures do not show any sig nificant downward, trend. Aid To Unemployed However the government is gearing itself to take meas ures if a recession does hit Britain. Last week the government announced it will pay house hold expenses for transfer ring an unemployed person to an area where there are jobs available and pay for half the legal fees involved in getting a new house. 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