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... CarIos recognized the importance of fitting aircraft size to the traffic needs as he took on the task of creating future new concepts of airline transports for Douglas. To Carios, this environment suggested the growing need for a bigger airplane, but the power plants available prevented enlargement of the two-engine concept of the DC-3.
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From page 295...
... This competition led Carlos to use the same large aircraft engines in another upgrade of the DC-6, which became the DC-7, fully competitive with the other airline transports. The emergence of useful turbine engines, both pure jet and turbo-propellers, created a further challenge to the creators of transport airlines.
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From page 296...
... 296 1 MEMORIAL TRIBUTES and its unique design, which carried all payloads externally, could carry ten tons. It is still used in many unusual ways such as fire fighting with large water loads in tanks and carrying assembled structural segments of new bridges.
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