Talk:Douglas DC-3

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Douglas DC-3 is scheduled to be the Aviation Portal's selected aircraft during December 2006.

According to one disambig page, this aircraft was also known as the "Gooney bird." If this bit of trivia is accurate, should it not be incorporated into the article? Kevyn 13:23, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Contents 1 10,000 ft/min climb rate? 2 Hmm 3 Banking right picture 4 Infobox 5 Famous People Who Died in the DC-3?

[edit] 10,000 ft/min climb rate?

Am I reading this right? There's no way a DC-3 could climb 10,000 ft/min. --ScottJ 23:27, August 15, 2005 (UTC)

• Yeah, that can't possibly be right. Good eye. -eric ✈ 01:04, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

Great catch, ScottJ. I misread the statistic when I first entered the specs. It was actually 9.6 minutes to climb to 10,000. That works out to a slightly lower number than what you used, but you specified "initial", which I would expect to be a bit higher than the average over 10k feet. Dabarkey 04:07, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

It really is important to distinguish between rate and time-to-climb anyway; if you've got both, put both in. What I've been doing lately (using information from Jane's Fighting Aircraft of WWII) is the following:

• Rate of climb: 2,300 ft/min (11.7 m/sec); 9.6 min to 20,400 ft

That way, we get both initial rate and time-to-altitude information. -eric ✈ 05:14, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Hmm

I'm concidering adding an extra bit to this article but the problem seems to me that it's specifically about the plane and not any events that has taken place with it. Hmm... Dead-Inside 21:44, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Banking right picture

It's a thumbnail Adrian, it's not supposed to be a high-res background. Intersofia 03:42, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

I understand what you mean but we don't normally have "thumbnail pics only" unless a good large one can't be found so that's not a good reason for the pic to be there. Loads of readers will click on it to enjoy the full size pic (as I always do) and be disappointed (and probably irritated as well). Quality pics of the DC-3 are easy to find so no need for this one. Best Wishes - Adrian Pingstone 08:50, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Infobox

I think this article needs an Aircraft infobox.

Yup, but there is a strong opposition to adding infoboxes to articles on aircraft and I doubt the WikiProject guys would let you do that. I tried once, but this was not very pleasant... //Halibutt 21:33, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Famous People Who Died in the DC-3?

Is this an encyclopedia article or a People magazine article? This sort of thing does not seem to be germane to the article and isn't a topic that's recommended in Wikipedia:WikiProject Aircraft/page content. I think it should be deleted or at least moved to a separate article. Anyone else have a comment? Dabarkey 04:40, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Someone put work into it, so move rather than delete. Meggar 17:27, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Just because someone worked on it does not make it appropriate for an encyclopedia. However, I won't act unilaterally, and no-one else has exptressed an opinion as of now.Dabarkey 02:33, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Moved to its own List of... where interested parties may defend it against deletion. Meggar 03:25, 12 September 2006 (UTC)