Douglas DC-6

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Nov 2, 2026

The Next Trip - An Aviation and Travel Podcast

The Next Trip - An Aviation and Travel Podcast

Boarding Pass 360: The MAX 10 is Here (Almost)!

Nov 2 · 1 Mention

DrewHOST

18:16

The flight was performed by a Douglas DC-4 chartered from Transocean Airlines.

DrewHOST

18:22

All right, fast forward to May 1948, PAL did an equipment upgrade to the DC-6 and did the Manila to SFO route via Guam.

DrewHOST

18:31

Wow, what an improvement, only one stop.

DrewHOST

18:33

Oh, no, I spoke too

Ep. 248 - BEST Brief

Oct 20 · 1 Mention

Fitz WalkerHOST

13:31

You're welcome to click any of the pictures if you want or anything.

Lee RayHOST

13:33

Which one do you want, helicopter or DC-6?

Fitz WalkerHOST

13:35

Yes.

Fitz WalkerHOST

13:37

Both are

Unknown podcast

Tex Johnston, the Dash Eighty Barrel Roll, and the Day a Test Pilot Sold an Airliner Upside Down Over Lake Washington

Oct 20 · 1 Mention

Tail DraggerHOST

3:35

But in commercial airliners, the company that mattered was Douglas.

Tail DraggerHOST

3:39

The Douglas DC-3 had defined a generation of air travel, the DC-6 had extended that legacy, and in 1953, the Douglas DC-7 entered service as the most capable piston airliner in the world.

Tail DraggerHOST

3:51

Pan American was flying it, American Airlines was putting it on the transcontinental routes.

Tail DraggerHOST

3:57

Every major airline that wanted the best transport available was buying from Douglas, not Boeing.

Green Dot Aviation

Green Dot Aviation

Shocking failure | USAir 405

Oct 19 · 1 Mention

EmmetHOST

3:02

He had close to 10,000 hours of flying time, over 2,000 of which were on the Fokker F28.

EmmetHOST

3:09

Over the years, he had also flown the Boeing 737, the DC-9, DC-6, as well as a few other aircraft.

EmmetHOST

3:16

He had also been trained to operate in the wintry conditions that blanketed the East Coast on this evening, and he had plenty of experience flying in this kind of weather.

EmmetHOST

3:26

Sitting to his right was 30-year-old First Officer John Rotuba.

Calum Nicholas on Pitstop!

Oct 17 · 3 Mentions

Jake BoysHOST

37:41

Yeah, it's great.

Calum NicholasGUEST

37:42

We always have a good time and we, we've done some like cool away days this year, so, like got to go to Austria, um, on the DC-6 with Isack and, and filmed that, which was great.

Calum NicholasGUEST

37:51

Um-

FabHOST

37:51

What's a DC-6?

Calum NicholasGUEST

37:52

It's the old Douglas airplane, the prop plane.

FabHOST

37:55

Oh.

Calum NicholasGUEST

38:05

Like they're all airworthy and they use them all the time.

Calum NicholasGUEST

38:07

It's a really cool place.

792. Dave Scott: UFO Disclosure, Government Secrets, Bigfoot & the Flight 21 Mystery

Oct 16 · 1 Mention

Dave ScottGUEST

29:58

It's about, from my, from where I am right now, it's about 35 miles away, and that's just to get to the goat trail to go into a gully that you have to drive out of the gully and up this steep embankment in order to get to the crash site.

Dave ScottGUEST

30:14

So on July 8th, 1965, a Canadian Pacific Airways, which is now a defunct airline, was flying a DC-6 taking off in Vancouver and was doing a milk run north, stopping in Kamloops or Prince George, and then it was gonna stop- North of that, and then a- make its way up to the White House.

Dave ScottGUEST

30:37

White House.

Dave ScottGUEST

30:38

Whitehorse, Yukon.

Unknown podcast

Tex Johnston, the Barrel Roll Over Lake Washington, and the Day Boeing's Chief Test Pilot Sold an Airplane the Only Way He Knew How

Oct 15 · 1 Mention

Tail DraggerHOST

2:08

Lockheed had the Constellation.

Tail DraggerHOST

2:10

Douglas had the DC-6 and was working on the DC-7.

Tail DraggerHOST

2:13

The airlines were buying those.

Tail DraggerHOST

2:15

Boeing was not in that conversation.

Unknown podcast

The 1924 Army World Flight, the Four Douglas World Cruisers, and the First Circumnavigation of the Globe by Air That America Somehow Forgot

Oct 12 · 1 Mention

Tail DraggerHOST

11:05

Two of the original four, still in museums, a hundred years later, which is not nothing.

Tail DraggerHOST

11:10

And the Douglas Aircraft Company, whose first real test of what they could build was this mission, went on to produce the DC-3, the DC-6, the C-47, the Skyraider, and some of the most important aircraft in American aviation history.

Tail DraggerHOST

11:23

None of it happens without the World Cruiser coming home.

Tail DraggerHOST

11:26

Most of the historical detail I've drawn on today comes from the Air Force Historical Research Agency's records of the flight, the National Air and Space Museum's documentation of the Chicago, and the account assembled by historians at the Smithsonian.

Unknown podcast

30 Bizarre Cold War Mysteries Science Still Can’t Explain: Secret Operations, Vanished Leaders & Unsolved Conspiracies

Oct 11 · 1 Mention

speaker_0UNKNOWN

1:13

He didn’t arrive.

speaker_0UNKNOWN

1:14

His DC-6 went down near Ndola, Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia.

speaker_0UNKNOWN

1:19

Official cause: pilot error.

speaker_0UNKNOWN

1:21

Unofficial consensus: something much darker.

Unknown podcast

The Boeing Three-Oh-Seven Stratoliner, the First Pressurized Airliner, and the Day It Sank in Elliott Bay Before the Smithsonian Could Save It

Oct 10 · 1 Mention

Tail DraggerHOST

11:24

You're looking at the moment aviation decided to stop apologizing for being uncomfortable and start competing for the passenger.

Tail DraggerHOST

11:30

Everything that came after, the Constellation, the DC-6, the first jets, every pressurized tube you've ever climbed into came from this 10 airplanes built.

Tail DraggerHOST

11:38

One survived.

Tail DraggerHOST

11:39

It had to sink in Puget Sound before anyone could save it, and the people who saved it had to do the job twice.

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