The Six.

摘要

One of the last three Douglas DC-6A Cloudmasters off the line in 1958, the airplane known to its present owners as The Six has entered the most glamorous stage of its storied career: an era of flying for admiring crowds and appearing in big-budget movies. It wasn't always so.rnThe aircraft got its first major assign-ment in 1959 with Eagle Airways (later changed to British Eagle), which needed a fuel-efficient workhorse. Working for the airline, the DC-6 had an adventurous youth: It shutded military personnel home from British H-bomb tests on Christmas Island; it carried men and equipment to Australia as part of the United Kingdom's first rocket programs; and it flew some of the first holiday-package air routes, taking skiers to Innsbruck and sunbathers to Nice.