In late 1938, the revolutionary DC-3 plane departed Newark Airport for Glendale, California. Nigel Cox On an early evening in late 1938, a gleaming American Airlines DC-3 departed Newark Airport ...

With no DC-3 wings to be found, maintenance crews repaired the damaged aircraft with a DC-2 wing, five feet shorter than the original. The cobbled-together airplane, said engineer Sol Soldinski ...