# HISTORY OF THE DOUGLAS AIRCRAFT COMPANY WELCOME TO DOUGLAS 23324a

This black-and-white Douglas Aircraft Company “welcome film” dates to the early 1960s but begins with a 1924 proclamation: “World Cruisers Make Aviation History New York, N.Y.” — a nod to an accomplishment by the company after the first around-the-world flight was by a team of aviators of the United States Army Air Service (predecessor of the U.S. Air Force) using a modified Douglas DT.The trip took 175 days and covered nearly 28,000 miles. The celebration of the final landing in September 1924 is captured at mark 00:30 and kicks off film, but it is really just a blip on the radar of the company’s history. Less than 30 second later, the scene is replaced by a passenger jet gliding through the sky as the opening credits roll. At mark 01:42 the viewer is introduced to the company president, Donald Douglas, Jr., who welcomes the viewer to the organization. At mark 02:35 , the narrator recounts the origins of the company, started in 1921 by Donald Douglas, Sr., in Los Angeles. At mark 02:50 , we are reminded of the Douglas Cloudster, the bi-plane designed to make the first non-stop flight coast-to-coast across the United States. At mark 03:37 we see an image of a Douglas World Cruiser, the aircraft developed in 1924 to accomplish the first flight around the world. (Four aircraft were made for that mission — named Boston, Chicago, New Orleans, and Seattle. Chicago is now housed at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.) We also see the DC-1 and the workhorse DC-3…

- Kind: Film
- Genres: History, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/23324aWorldCruiser)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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