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PRIMARY SOURCES: The author has spent substantial time with the DC-3, on the ground and aloft, including time in the cockpit, and has interviewed various DC-3 pilots, crewmen, mechanics and operations personnel -- including veterans of early DC-3 flights (including WWII combat missions).

BOOKS, GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS and PERIODICAL SPECIAL ISSUES:

Angellucci, Enzo (Italian publisher/journalist & aviation scholar), Airplanes, from the Dawn of Flight to the Present Day, Greenwich/Arlington/Crown, London (from Milan), 1982, McGraw-Hill, NY / Arnoldo Mondidore Editore, Milan, 1973 / 1971, ISBN 0-517-38356X.
__________________ World Encyclopedia of Civil Aircraft: from Leonardo da Vinci to the Present, English Language ed. supervised by John Stroud, Crown, NY, 1982, McGraw-Hill, NY / Arnoldo Mondidore Editore, Milan, 1981, ISBN 0-517-54724-4.
Baer, John, and Judith Hanson, Brian Dalton, World Aircraft Directory (Flying Times Quarterly, Fall,1972), Werner & Werner, Santa Monica, CA, 1972,
Boeing Company, Pedigree of Champions: Boeing Since 1916, 6th ed., Boeing, Seattle, 1985
Bonds, Ray, ed. with Bill Gunston (O.B.E., Janes), Sue Bushell av.journalist (Janes), and Mike Spick) The Story of Aviation: A Concise History of Flight, Barnes & Noble / Elephant Editions, East Grinstead, UK, 1997, 0-7607-0753-7 ISBN.
Bryan, C.D.B. (NASM appointed), AIR: The Story of Flight (The National Air & Space Museum, Vol 1), Smithsonian Inst./NASM, Washington DC, 1982, Peacock, Toronto,1982, 0-553-01384-X ISBN.
Collins, Richard, ed. (with FLYING Magazine staff & other BIGGEST names in aerospace writing), Flying Staff, Asimov, Bach, Bergman, Caidin, Buckley, Eaker, Godfrey, Karant, Langewiesche, Serlin, FKS, Thos. J. Watson, Yarnell, Zarb., Aviation: Past, Present & Future; (Flying Magazine 50th Anniversary Issue), Ziff-Davis / FLYING Magazine (Sept.,1977), New York, 1977
Dean, Jack, ed. "Rating World War II's Major Air Forces" (official USN & USAAF postwar analysis documents, summarized), ( Airpower, May 2000), Airpower/SentryBooks, GranadaHills, CA, 2000
de Saint Croix, Philip, ed., with Wm. Green, Gordon Swainborough, John Mowninski, Bill Gunston, et. al. Modern Commercial Aircraft, Salamander/Crown, London/NY, 1987.
Donald, David, gen. ed., The Complete Encylcopedia of World Aircraft, Barnes & Noble / Brown Packaging, London, 1997, Orbis, Aerospace, 1997, 0-7607-0592-5 ISBN.
Eisenhower, Gen. Dwight D., USArmy (WWII Supreme Allied Commander in Europe), Crusade in Europe, Doubleday, NY, 1948
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), U.S. Dept. of Transportation, Aircraft Data, AC#150/5325-5C, June 29, 1987, Washington, DC, 1987, government document.
Gambrill, Jeffrey, consultant and Derek Wood, consultant, The Time Chart History of Aviation, Lowe & B. Hould / Borders Properties, Ann Arbor, MI, 2001, MBI, St.Paul MN / Worth Press & DAG PubsLtd., 2001, 0-681-60319-4 ISBN.
Gunston, Bill, withs John F. Davis & Richard Humble, War Planes: 1945-1976, Salamander, London, 1975
Gurney, Col. Gene, USAAF ret'd (USAAF pilot, WWII), fwd. by Gen. Curtiss LeMay, USAF, The War in the Air (WWII), Bonanza/Crown, NY, 1962, ISBN 0-517-099489.
King, Jack L, Corporate Flying, Aviation Book Co., 1979
Mondey, David, gen. ed. (forward by PanAm founder Juan Trippe), The International Encyclopedia of Aviation, Aerospace Publishing, London 1981 / Crescent (Crown), NY, 1977, / Octopus Books (Mandarin Publishers, Hong Kong), ISBN 0-517-53157-7.
____________, compiler, Encyclopedia of the World's Commercial and Private Aircraft, Aerospace Publishing, London 1981 / Crescent (Crown), NY, 1982, ISBN 0-517-362856.
Robinson, Anthony, ed., Air Forces of the World, Crescent/Crown, London, 1982, Orbis, London, 1980.
Serling, Robert J., Legend & Legacy: the Story of Boeing & Its People, St.Martin's, NY, 1992
Sampson, Anthony, Empires of the Sky: the Politics, Contests & Cartels of World Airlines, Random House, NY, 1985, 0-394-52242-7 ISBN.
Taylor, John W.R. and Gordon Swainborough, Civil Aircraft of the World, Chas. Scribner's Sons, NY, 1972, Ian Allan, copyright holder, 684-12895-0-0 ISBN.
__________________ and Paul Hamlyn, Aircraft, Aircraft!, Hamlyn Publishing Group, Feltham, UK, 1967
USAF, Aerospace Information Handbook, Vol III, USAF Aerospace Vehicles - 1968, USAF, Washington DC, 1968, AFP 190-33"
Whitford, Ray, "Fundamentals of Airliner Design, Part 3: Airline Operations & Economics" ( Air International, June 2001), Stamford, UK, 1997

PERIODICAL ARTICLES and EXCERPTS:

B/CA staff, "Turboprop DC-3 Certificated," Business & Commercial Aviation, October, 1987, vol.61, #4, page 82
Boyne, Walter J., "Air Force Aircraft of the Korean War," Air Force, July, 2000, vol.83, #7, page 67
Casey, Gerry A., "Lurches of a lumbering 'Tin Goose' pale the aura of Amelia Earhart," Private Pilot, April, 1984, vol.19, #4, page 16
Collins, Richard, "Flying Flashbacks: 50 Years Ago - 1927-1947 Statistics," Flying, August, 1997, vol.127, #8, page 138
Davisson, Budd, "We Fly (Sort of) the Electra Junior," www.AirBum.com, 1989
Edo company ad: "Edo floats on DC-3 & Cessnas," Private Pilot, March, 1984, vol.19, #3, page 25
Flying staff, "Flying Flashbacks: 50 years: Consolidated Vultee 240," Flying, April, 1996, vol.123, #4, page 122
______________, "Flying Flashbacks: 50 years: DC-3 variations," Flying, April, 1996, vol.123, #4, page 122
______________, "DC-3 Marks 60 Years of Flight," Flying, April, 1996, vol.123, #4, page 90
Garrison, Peter, "Technicalities: The History of Aerodynamics," Flying, March, 1997, vol.124, #3, page 142
Kingsley-Jones, Max, with AirClaims & Paul Duffy, World Airliner Census (Flight International, 29 Aug 2000), Flight International, UK, 2000
MacReady, Lynne, "1995 Bushmaster 2000 (Ford TriMotor copy)," Private Pilot, May, 2001, vol.36, #5, page 42
Marsh, Alton K. and Peter A. Bedell, "Fokker Goes Broke," AOPA Pilot, May, 1996, vol.39, #5, page 28
______________, "Fantasy of Flight acquires 'Tin Goose'," AOPA PIlot, May, 1996, vol.39, #5, page 31
McClellan, J.Mac, "Flying Dutchman," Flying, July, 1988, vol.115, #7, page 30
Mizrahi, Joe, "Last-Minute Substitute (Douglas DC-1)," Wings, April, 2002, vol.32, #2, page 8
Morgan, Len, "My Perfect Airplane," (DC-3 report and analysis, by noted airline captain, experienced with the DC-3 and other contemporary aircraft) Flying, April, 1993, vol.120, #4, page 94
Penney, Stewart, World Air Forces: What They Fly (Flight International, 27 Nov.2001), Flight International, UK, 2001
Searles, Robert A., "1939's High-Tech Aviation Technology," Business & Commercial Aviation, March, 1989, vol.64, #3, page
______________, "Fokker: the Early Years," Business & Commercial Aviation, July, 1987, vol.61, #1, page 34
Smith, Gene, "Birth of the Gooney (DC-3)," Air Classics, January, 1985, vol.22, #1, page 22
______________, "Fifty Years of Glory: DC-3," Air Classics, January, 1985, vol.22, #1, page 18
______________, "Kilroy & Friends: ...Gooney Bird... 50-year history," Air Classics, January, 1985, vol.22, #1, page 15
Stites, Charles H., "Lockheed's First Spy Plane," Private Pilot, April, 2002, vol.37, #4, page 78
Weeghman, Richard B., "The Cardinal & the Gooney Bird, pt.1," Air Progress, October, 1974, vol.35, #4, page 34

ONLINE SOURCES: For online sources, which contributed to this article, or offer addittional or corroborating information, see the "For more information" section on the bottom of the DC-3 article. (To jump there quickly, CLICK HERE.)

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