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View ArticleFlying the Hump
Pioneering the Hump airlift over the eastern spur of the Himalayas was the China National Aviation Corporation's capstone accomplishment. Here are some photos and links related to flying the Hump....
View ArticleRemember that beautifully restored DC-3? Here’s what it looked like with CNAC
Remember that beautifully restored DC-3 I posted about before Christmas? The one that had once flown for the China National Aviation Corporation as CNAC No. 100 and had recently been returned to...
View ArticleCredit to the CNAC mechanics & maintenance team
Tribute to the twenty years of miracles worked by the mechanics and maintenance experts of the China National Aviation Corporation. Continue reading →
View ArticleWhat it took to keep ‘em flying
The massively complex logistics required to keep an airline flying. Even in 1943. Continue reading →
View ArticleCharles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh with the plane they took to China
This morning, I stumbled across an interesting photo of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh and the Sirius flying boat they used on their famous survey flight to China in 1931 here, at the Smithsonian’s...
View ArticlePhotos of some of the airline’s Chinese personnel, late 1940s
Jason Chou, son of CNAC co-pilot Bing Zhou, passed along these photos. After completing college in Kunming, Bing Zhou joined the China National Aviation Corporation in 1944, and he flew more than 130...
View ArticleThe DC 2 1/2
Photo of the DC-2 1/2, one of the best stories in China's Wings. Continue reading →
View ArticleEurasia Ju-52 at Chungking’s Sanhupa Airport
Superb photo that shows one of Eurasia's Ju-52s. The man who brought it to my attention asked if I thought it was taken at Chungking's Sanhupa Airport, a cobblestone airport built on a Yangtze sandbar...
View ArticleThe Douglas DC-3 in China, a photogallery
Photos of Douglas DC-3s, C-53s, and C-47s in China and flying the Hump during World War II Continue reading →
View ArticleFleeing Shanghai, August 1937: what happened to Donald Wong after he was hit...
Continuation of the stories of the China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC) fleeing Shanghai at the outbreak of the Battle of Shanghai, August 1937. This one recounts Donald Wong's experiences after...
View ArticleDC-2 & DC-3 flying in formation
Great photo! The DC-2 is the last airworthy DC-2 in the world, and the recently-restored DC-3, wearing Pan Am colors, is an airplane that once flew for the China National Aviation Corporation--as CNAC...
View ArticlePearl Harbor Day in Hong Kong: “Those planes are Japanese!”
Pearl Harbor Day in Hong Kong--which, on the other side of the International Date Line, was December 8, 1941. Description of the Japanese attack on the China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC) at Kai...
View ArticleMake ‘em like they used to? They don’t even draw ‘em like they used to.
Gorgeous commemorative card added to the collection of the San Francisco Aviation Museum & Library. Continue reading →
View ArticleGigantic China’s Wings photo gallery
Classic aviation photos of flying in China in the 1930s and 1940s pertaining to the China National Aviation Corporation, a Chinese-American civil aviation partnership that flew and fought in China...
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