large planes used by commercial airlines, also including cargo transport variants
Amelia Earhart was flying a Lockheed Electra 10E when she disappeared over the Pacific in 1937.
One of the first designs of the Lockheed company, the Electra was one of the first all-metal, passenger planes; its many innovations contributed to the design of the P-38 fighter.
From Aero Digest, April, 1935:
Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, California
• Twelve-place low-wing [...]
From Aero Digest, April, 1935
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Fairchild Aircraft Corporation, Hagerstown, Maryland
• Ten-place high-wing amphibion. Pratt and Whitney Hornet S3Dl engine, 645 horsepower. Span 57 feet. Length overall 45 feet 9 inches. Height overall 15 feet 11 inches. Wing area 475 square feet. Power loading 13.2 pounds per horsepower. Wing loading 17.9 pounds per square foot.
Empty weight 4972 [...]
The Douglas DC-2 was a 14 seat, twin-engine airliner produced by Douglas Aircraft Corporation. Designed to meet TWA requirements for a new airliner, the DC-1 (which evolved into the DC-2) made its first flight in 1933. Inspired by the success of the DC-1, the DC-2 was introduced less than a year after the DC-1’s first [...]
An unusual biplane airliner, capable of carrying 18 passengers.
photo probably taken at East Boston airport, c. 1936
Curtiss-Wright Condor, NC12396
On the Curtiss-Wright Condor aircraft (which had no galleys) American Airlines (Airways) hostesses served their eighteen passengers coffee, tea, Coca-Cola, biscuits and coffeecake from a picnic hamper.
From Aero Digest, April, 1935:
Curtiss-Wright Airplane Company, Robertson, Missouri
• Fifteen- or [...]
From Aero Digest, April, 1935:
Curtiss-Wright Airplane Company, Robertson, Missouri
• Two-place biplane. Two Wright Cyclone SGR-1820-F2 geared engines, 750 horsepower each.
Span upper wing 82 feet. Span lower wing 74 feet. Length over all 49 feet 7 inches. Height overall 16 feet 7.5 inches. Wing area 1276 square feet. Power loading 12.4 pounds per horsepower. Wing [...]
A nice shot of some passengers de-planing at East Boston airport:
Douglas DC3 – one of the most famous, longest-lived airplanes. At least until the 1980’s, some were still flying commercially in South America and Africa. In World War Two, the military version was the C-47.
Douglas DST Sleeper
“an idea that didn’t work out”
Four pictures, of various models:
Stinson Tri-motor, Model T
East Boston
1936
Boston & Maine – Central Vermont Airways
Stinson Tri-motor, Model U
East Boston
1936
American Airlines
Stinson Trimotor, Model A
American Airlines hangar
Stinson Tri-motor, Model A
E. Boston
1936
from April, 1935 Aero Digest:
• Eighteen-place sesquiplane. Two Wright Cyclone geared engines, 710 horsepower each. Available as land plane, amphibian, seaplane.
(Specifications given for landplane; data on amphibion and seaplane in brackets in that order.)
Span 76 feet. Length overall 44 feet. Height overall 14 feet. Wing area 770 square feet.
Power loading 10 pounds per horsepower. Wing [...]
The Aircruiser was commissioned in 1928, by Italian WW I ace, Caesare Sabelli, who wanted a plane that could fly non-stop from New York to Rome. Giuseppe Bellanca’s original design, the Model K , never made the flight, but the design survived. The distinctive “W” silhouette of the plane is derived from [...]
from the April, 1935 Aero Digest:
• President: Don P. Smith. Vice-president and Chief Engineer, Gerard F. Vultee.
Nine- or ten-place low-wing monoplane.
ATC 545. Wright Cyclone F-2 engine, 735 horsepower at 4000 feet.
Span 50 feet. Length overall 37 feet. Height overall 10 feet 2 inches. Wing area 384 square feet.
Power loading 11.55 pounds per horsepower. Wing loading [...]
