Talk:Douglas DC-5

Image

I found a one free image from here: http://cas.awm.gov.au/photograph/150503. It's exipired by Australian law, but I do not kno a right permissions. If Somebody can, please upload it to Commons--EsaL-74 (talk) 20:34, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, done. FWiW Bzuk (talk) 21:30, 16 August 2009 (UTC).

The image 'Australian mainland to Port Moresby' should be labeled as 'Milne Bay to PM'. I have found a matching photo of the machine parked at Gurney Field MBN, in Aug '42.203.220.80.187 (talk) 07:03, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

Newly 'discovered' reference material

The July 1993 , volume 29, number 27, issue of AIR CLASSICS has nine (9) pages if interesting text and information on this unique craft, along with nine (9) black & white photographs.(Resolution Man (talk) 02:29, 6 June 2010 (UTC))

Just remember, you can't turn into a copy machine and simple regurgitate the article because you and Wikipedia will be in massive copyright violation. I have judiciously (remember that's not your word, but another author's!) changed the article. FWiW Bzuk (talk) 11:12, 6 June 2010 (UTC).

Thanx Bzuk...well done....I did not think of copy right. I was just so pleased to have found this Air Classics 'zine article, I wanted to "get the word out" ASAP. I will be more diligent in the future...but with that said, I feel this info. is the most definitve of all that I have read in past years !(Resolution Man (talk) 17:46, 6 June 2010 (UTC))

However, Bzuk,I do want you to re-enter the fact about the "trick to the eye" painting of the top of the vertical stabilizer, following the curve...dark to make the tail seem smaller and the plane itself sleeker. This fact is a quirky tid-bit...not known by many but known by those who know !(Resolution Man (talk) 17:54, 6 June 2010 (UTC)) To view this unusual paint job, click on the web site in the 'notes' section..'the forgotten Douglas' and scroll to the photos and the one airborne over the coast demonstrates this ...engine nacelles, too. The dark painting makes the object seem smaller. This illusion is along the lines of the 'dazzle' configurations painted on WW11 ships at times.(Resolution Man (talk) 18:22, 6 June 2010 (UTC)) Nose and cockpit area, too...and I only just noticed this myself...very 'tricky' (Resolution Man (talk) 18:25, 6 June 2010 (UTC))

Fair enough, the article is now resuscitated and I have reinserted some of the more fiddly bits. FWiW Bzuk (talk) 21:58, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

VH Hyphen

The CX registrations did not have a hyphens. They were VHCXC, etc. Only civil regs can have hyphens, such as VH-ARD. VHCXC = PK-ADD = VH-ARD can be confirmed by photographs. There is uncertainty about CXA and CXB. When VHCXC was changed to VH-ARD, ANA painted "VH-CXC" on the machine, and flew it that way for 3 years. Such imbercilic behavior was normal for ANA, and is the reason why the company went broke.

It is an interesting quirk of fate that four of the five civil DC-5s ended up operating from the island of New Guinea. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.244.79.151 (talk) 07:52, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

Miscellaneous

Text indicates that two KLM planes operated in the Caribbean and two in the East Indies. How did the two in the Caribbean get to the East Indies? Also, although the KLM subsidiary in the East Indies is mentioned as an operator, the one in the West Indies is not. --Lineagegeek (talk) 17:49, 1 September 2014 (UTC)