The Douglas DC-7 is a retired American transport aircraft built by the Douglas Aircraft Company from 1953 to 1958.

2025年3月15日 · The original DC-7 was largely based on the DC-6 (and the DC-4 before that), with the same wingspan but a 40-inch (100 cm) fuselage stretch. It was powered by four eighteen-cylinder Wright R-3350 Duplex-Cyclone Turbo-Compound engines, which combined provided a total of 13,000 horsepower. This was 20% more than the competing Constellation and ...

2022年5月18日 · Built by the Douglas Aircraft Company between 1953 and 1958, the DC-7 was a derivative of the DC-6, made to fly coast-to-coast across the US in as little as eight hours. The DC-7 was the last piston-engine powered plane built by Douglas, and no examples of the aircraft are still flying today.

It is a twin-row, supercharged, air-cooled, radial engine with eighteen cylinders, pushrod valves, two-speed single-stage supercharger, Chandler-Evans downdraft carburetor fuel system, and dry-sump oil system. It produces a maximum thrust of 3,250 horsepower each.

2021年5月7日 · American Airlines introduced this low-wing airliner on November 29th, 1953. The legacy carrier flew it on a route between New York and Los Angeles. With this move, the company became the first operator to offer nonstop transcontinental service in both directions.

The Douglas DC-7 is a four-engined low-wing cantilever monoplane powered by four Wright R-3350-30W 18-cylinder air cooled radial engines. [3] The type first flew in 1953 and was in production between 1953 and 1958.

The Douglas DC-7 was an advanced development of the DC-6B piston-engine airliner. It was introduced by American Airlines on its New York–Los Angeles route in November 1953 and was the first airliner to provide nonstop transcontinental service in both directions.

2009年9月1日 · The Douglas DC-6 is essentially a stretched, more powerful, and pressurized version of the DC-4 with three-blade props. The DC-7 is merely a stretched DC-6 with four-blade props and retaining all aerodynamic and structural features.

Douglas' largest and last piston engined airliner, the DC-7 was one of the first airliners capable of nonstop trans Atlantic crossings between New York and London. Previously the DC-7 designation had applied to a commercial development of the C74 Globemaster I that PanAm had ordered.

2010年5月11日 · FS2004 United Air Lines DC-7 1957 Base Pack. This great GMAX plane by Greg Pepper is painted in the "modern" United scheme common in the 1960's. These were also common in Sacramento when I was a kid, and it was always a special treat to see a DC-7 instead of the ubiquitous DC-6's.