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  • I think it was likely that young Roger's mind was opening and broadening on its own and that's what inspired him to save up "my 75-cent an hour salary and [board] a DC-6 that took me to London by way of Gander, Reykjavík and Aberdeen."

    Lance Mannion: 2009

  • I think it was likely that young Roger's mind was opening and broadening on its own and that's what inspired him to save up "my 75-cent an hour salary and [board] a DC-6 that took me to London by way of Gander, Reykjavík and Aberdeen."

    Questions of travel 2009

  • United Airlines had introduced the DC-6 in 1946, so a team could fly from New York to Los Angeles in less than half the time it took to reach St. Louis by train.

    WILLIE MAYS JAMES S. HIRSCH 2010

  • "Sixty years ago today, President Harry S. Truman crossed the Potomac and boarded a propeller-driven military DC-6, the 1950 version of Air Force One, and took a short flight to dedicate a new airport carved out of Anne Arundel County farmland," The Baltimore Sun's Michael Dresser reports.

    Lori's A.M. Buzz 2010

  • The maximum ceiling of the DC-6 was 25,000 feet, and the plane usually cruised at a much lower altitude.

    Letters to the Editor 2007

  • The maximum ceiling of the DC-6 was 25,000 feet, and the plane usually cruised at a much lower altitude.

    Letters to the Editor 2007

  • UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Lying (ph), you know, clear across there was a DC-6.

    CNN Transcript Dec 10, 2007 2007

  • North's notebook reads, "Honduran DC-6 which is being used for runs out of New Orleans is probably being used for drug runs into the U.S."

    Look at Who Undermines Democracy 2006

  • During much of the 1960s, other than certain transcontinental and transoceanic flights using 707s and DC-8s, they were still using Connies, DC-6/7s and the like.

    New Emanuel Presentation « Climate Audit 2006

  • The Red Cross hired a DC-6 from a Swiss charter company to fly in at night, but on August 10, after ten flights, the flights were suspended because of Nigerian antiaircraft fire.

    1968 the Year that Rocked the World Kurlansky, Mark 2004

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