McDonnell Douglas DC-7
The DC-7 of 1953 was Douglas's last and most powerful piston airliner, the first able to fly nonstop across the United States in both directions against the wind. It marked the peak — and the end — of the propeller era on premier routes, briefly the fastest way to cross oceans before jets swept it aside within a few years. Its complex, hard-worked engines made it costly, hastening the industry's leap to jet power.
Specifications
- Seats
- 60–105
- Range
- 9,000 km
- Type
- narrowbody
- Built
- 1953–1958
- Runway
- 1,900 m