Douglas DC-5

[PMN1]

This appears to have had a better fuselage layout than the DC-3 for loading cargo into on the ground - a horizontal low fuselage with tricycle undercarriage and shoulder wings.

Why didn't it get further development?

[montanamotor]

PMN1,

pictures, please...!?

Cheers!

Montanamotor

[PMN1]

Only have them from Wikiepdia sorry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_DC-5

[Jemiba]

Only quite a crude drawing, sorry, it's an older one ...

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d166/Jemiba/dc-5.gif

[Groggy]

quote:Originally posted by Jemiba

Only quite a crude drawing, sorry, it's an older one ...

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d166/Jemiba/dc-5.gif

Hi Folks
Does it have the narrower Dc-2 Diameter fuselage?

[ChrisMcD]

Looks like there was a fashion for high wing short range transports at this time

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d144/chrismcd3/Flamingo.jpg

How about the DH Flamingo

[PMN1]

Not sure about the fuselage diamter but I would suggest a DC5 development would have increased length and improved engines as per DC2/3 so an increased fuselage diameter is not unthinkable.

Might even go far as to say beaver-tail (is the technology for this kind of design around in 41/42?) - the DC5 wasn't that much smaller than the de Havilland Caribou or CASA CN-235

[Romantic Technofreak]

You easily can google for pictures of the DC-5, but I would like to add ones of a particular one that was captured and evaluated by the Japanese (by answer to my request from comrade *Summer* on J-aircraft.org, thanks to him):

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v475/Coridano/DC-51.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v475/Coridano/DC-52.jpg

My book says, the DC-5/C-110 was much better than the DC-3/C-47, but the USAAF was already fixed on the C-47, so General Arnold told Douglas to stop any further development of the DC-5. But I am sure the configuration of the DC-5 influenced post-war developments like the YC-122, C-123 and even the C-130.

Regards, RT