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Upset by what he felt was a project that seemed to guarantee failure, he started work on his own design, and presented it as the DC-3. Unlike the other entries, DC-3 was much more conventional in layout, with an almost cylindrical fuselage and low-mounted slightly swept wings. The design looked more like a cargo aircraft than a spacecraft.
The List of original Douglas DC-3 operators lists only the original customers who purchased new aircraft. With the availability of large numbers of surplus military C-47 Skytrains or Dakotas after the Second World War, nearly every airline and military force in the 1940s and 1950s operated the aircraft at some point.
DC-10 airtanker dropping a load of retardant on Patantoc Ridge on the Bighorn Fire in 2020. In June 2020, two DC-10 Air Tankers were deployed to the Catalina Foothills in Tucson, Arizona to prevent the Bighorn Fire from reaching the cities of Tucson and Oro Valley. Pilot Dan Montelli praised the tankers for their maneuverability within the ...
JTF-DC participates in all inter-agency planning and conducts planning with joint partners in the National Capital Region (NCR). Additionally, JTF-DC provides support, including traffic control, crowd management and security, for presidential inaugurations and related official ceremonies and events throughout the inaugural period, continuing ...
A DC WASA lead service line being replaced in 2008. In August 2004, the Army Corps of Engineers started adding orthophosphate to the water in hopes of preventing lead leeching. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] By November, WASA's board of directors had committed to a plan that would replace all of the agency's 23,000 lead pipes by 2010, at a cost of $300 million ...
The single-stage Pedro Miguel Lock, which is 1.4 km (7 ⁄ 8 mi) long, is the first part of the descent with a lift of 9.4 m (31 ft). The artificial Miraflores Lake 1.8 km (1 + 1 ⁄ 8 mi) long, and 16 m (54 ft) above sea level. The two-stage Miraflores Locks is 1.8 km (1 + 1 ⁄ 8 mi) long, with a total descent of 16 m (54 ft) at mid-tide.
The Christian Democratic Party of Honduras (Spanish: Partido Demócrata Cristiano de Honduras), known by the abbreviation DC, is a political party in Honduras. At the legislative elections, held on 25 November 2001 , DC won 3.7% of the popular vote and three out of 128 seats in the National Congress .