The Device Should Be in a Better Condition to Be More Seen and Visited, Even Having Some to Explain Its Functioning and the importance it had by Braving the Country’s Most Distant and Isolated Corners, Especialy the North, the Midwest and the Northeast, Takting Poing Poing Po Passengers and Various Orders, Allowing the irradiated integration and Development From Congonhas, in Congonhas in Congonha’s São Paulo.
The only advantage of having a DC – 3 stopped in an area of the São Paulo Downtown Center is that by photographing it, the Altino Arantes building, better known as “Banespa Building”, seems to be one of the postcards in the city of São Paulo anywhere in the world. Inspired by this look, I sought information about this plan with a friend named Wanderley Duck, who sent a text from an old pilot, Camilo RC Fernandes Costa, with more information about this device.
Camilo says most of the thirteen thousand DC-3 made by Douglas in Long Beach, Florida (USA), currently found in museums and hangars, but there are still four hundred DC-3 in commercial service all over the world. In Brazil, DC-3 started working in 1935 and lived more than three decades of glory. The old Pan Air of Brazil had 23 DC-3 devices and Real Aerovia’s driven 70 DC-3. Lasted used them until February 1973 and VASP hired DC-3 aircraft in its national integration network, subsidized by the federal government. Small regional lines used DC-3 in Brazil until 1985, although they belong to a time when there were romance and glamor on air travel. “Traveling by air was always a major event in people’s lives, mainly because travel costs were high. DC-3 had 28 seats, at 14 rows, plus the Commissioner’s Accent,” explains Camilo Costa and warned that the aircraft did not climb longer than three thousand meters height, as it was not printed. As it did not rise above the clouds, the pilots needed to meet the storms underwater and thus beams and thunderstorms. “Thus, a trip from Rio de Janeiro to Natal, for example, eight hours. Sao Paulo to Rio Branco or São Luis, two days, with overnight, only flies during the day. The overnight stays were in Cuiabá or Goiânia,” he says.