How the DC 7 Nearly Saved Propeller Airliners
Flightscope AviationThe Douglas DC-7 was the most capable propeller-driven airliner ever built. It gave American Airlines the first true nonstop transcontinental service in both directions, pushed the Wright R-3350 Turbo Compound to its thermal limits, and culminated in the DC-7C Seven Seas — an aircraft that could cro