One person’s opinion
Baranagar Douglas DC-6 and DC-7 – Airliner Tech Vol. 4
by Harry S. Gann
Specialty Press
1999
Harry Gann, who recently died, left the aviation community with a solid body of work. This book, in typical Gann fashion, punches through the veneer of the Tech series of books.
On the surface, the series as a whole, promises much. In reality, they are at best inconsistant in presentation and information.
In this book, Gann’s genius is visible beneath the framework.
Of the 8 books of this series that I own, this is the most comprehensive and direct presentation of the subject aircraft. Unlike others of the series, this book focuses on the topic at hand. The diversions into the minutia and one-offs are focussed and appropriate. If you want to know the history of the DC-6 and DC-7, you can’t find a better starting point than this book.
The point of this particular work is that it is hard to hold a good writer down. The documentation of aviation history suffered a great loss with Gann’s passing.
Reviewed February 2001.
