This is the Boeing 247, the airliner that began the trend towards monoplane construction. It also sparked the Douglas company into building the DC-series of airliners. Douglas went on to dominate the civil airliner market until the jet age. I hear Boeing eventually caught up though.................. <img src='http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
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