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Old 1st Aug 2018, 02:40
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Originally Posted by fox niner
are the current modern requirements more stringent than they used to be for Convair/DC3 generation airplanes?
The Convair 240/340/440/C-131 is not the same generation as the DC-3. The DC-3 was a pre-WWII design and the Convair was a post WWII design. There was significant amount of advancement in the intervening years.
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