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Squeezed and stretched every time it goes up and down. >> almost unbreakable. quite a few of them took hard landings. >> it can land just about everywhere. they don't really need a runway so it can stop pretty darn fast. high-tech is terrific but this tough old bird can take you just about anywhere you want to go. >> the dc 3 is not really the star exhibit. the spacecraft that pushed flight beyond the confines of the planet. but what it does represent is the innovation that defined an era, when passenger flight, aviation most of us know best,

From -- the sky train, the dakota and the goony bird moved soldiers and supplies across the globe. but goony? the dc 3 carried 21 paying passengers, more than ever before, and enough to make commercial air travel profitable for the first time. thousands were suddenly. there are lots of trained pilots and spare parts and the planes were sturdy. originally designed eight decades ago, there were dc 3s still in the sky today. the reason is in the sky. today's jet liners fly so high that the cabins have to be pressurized for people inside. the dc 3 flies relatively low so the aircraft does not have...