Figure 1.-- We note a photograph of an unidentified Bulgarian family, a mother and father and their two sons about 4-11 years old, perhaps with their grandmother. The are shown getting off a Bulgarian air liner in 1961. At the time, a few DC-3s were still being used in America,but only in a few regional short-hop flights. Flying suggess that the father had an important post in Bulgaria's Communist Governmnt or the Party. Ordinary Bulgarians at the time did not travel by air.

We note a photograph of an unidentified Bulgarian family, a mother and father and their two sons about 5-11 years old, perhaps with their grand mother. They are shown getting off a Soviet or Bulgarian air liner in 1961. At the time, a few DC-3s were still being used in America. Flying suggess that they the father had an important post in Bulgaria's Communist Governmnt or the Party. Ordinary Bulgarians did not travel by air. Bulgaria was one of the poorest of the Soviet satellite contries and not very many Belgarians would be traveling by air and even fewer families. Every one is dressed up for the flight as was common at the time. The father and boys all wear suits. Although taken in Bulgaria, the airplane may look familar. It was the Soviet version of the Douglas DC-3, the iconic C-47 of World War II fame. The Lisunov Li-2, was a license-built version of the DC-3, built in some numbers during and after World War II by the Soviets. It was virtually an identical copy except that the Douglas specifications were in inches and feet and had to be converted to metric measures for Soviet tooling and other minor changes. And the Soviets added offensive armament. The Soviet plant near Moscow was one of the many factories that the Soviets moved beyond the Urals after the German invasion. After Whe war, the planes were used both for military transports and civil aviation in the Soviet Union and satellite countries--in this case the Bulgarian Airlines. A few even made their way to China and North Vietnam.

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