File:Flexible performance of C-47 transport planes is due in part to their two 1,200 horsepower radial engines and to their three-blade variable-pitch propellers, Long Beach, Calif. Picture taken LCCN2017878913.jpg
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English: A worker atop the left engine of a Douglas C-47 Skytrain transport airplane at Douglas Aircraft Company's plant in Long Beach, California. The engine, which is exposed without its usual cowling, is a Pratt & Whitney R-1830 Twin Wasp, a 14-cylinder air-cooled radial engine of 1,200 horsepower (890 kW), and is fitted with a Hamilton Standard Hydromatic full-feathering constant-speed propeller.
Original title: Flexible performance of C-47 transport planes is due in part to their two 1,200 horsepower radial engines and to their three-blade variable-pitch propellers, Long Beach, Calif. Picture taken at the Douglas Aircraft Company. The versatile C-47 performs many important tasks for the army. It ferries men and cargo across oceans and mountains, tows gliders and brings paratroopers and their equipment to scenes of action Abstract/medium: 1 transparency : color. |
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| Author | Palmer, Alfred T., photographer | ||
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| Collection | Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Color Photographs | ||
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| Part of | farm security administration/office of war information color photographs · prints and photographs division | ||
| Subject | douglas aircraft company · airplane industry · transport planes · world war · air pilots · united states · california · long beach · transparencies · color | ||
| Location | california | ||
| Place | California--Long Beach | ||
| Genre | Transparencies--Color |
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This image is a work of an employee of the United States Farm Security Administration or Office of War Information domestic photographic units, taken as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain in the United States. See Copyright. | 
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