Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar - Wikipedia
The Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar (Navy and Marine Corps designation R4Q) is an American military transport aircraft developed from the World War II-era Fairchild C-82 Packet, designed to carry cargo, personnel, litter patients, and mechanized equipment, and to …
The Story Of Fairchild's Twin-Boom C-119 'Flying Boxcar' …
2024年3月4日 · Converted C-119 gunships provided effective close ground support in the Vietnam War. The Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar was a twin-boom twin-tail military transport plane designed and developed by Fairchild Aircraft.
Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar - Aero Corner
C-119 Flying Boxcar features a powerful engine and a stronger and wider airframe. Its first prototype, known as XC-82B, first blew last November 1947, which contain deliveries of the C-199Bs from the factory of Fairchild’s Hagerstown, Maryland, started on December 1942.
Fairchild C 119 Flying Boxcar - Belgian Air Force - YouTube
6 天之前 · I have updated this Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar in scale 1/2 (Italeri kit) with working lights, engines en sound
Fairchild C-119J Flying Boxcar - National Museum of the USAF
DAYTON, Ohio -- Fairchild C-119J Flying Boxcar in the Space Gallery at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. (U.S. Air Force photo) Satellite Catcher. This C-119J Flying Boxcar made the world’s first mid-air recovery of an object returning from space.
C-119G Flying Boxcar – Air Mobility Command Museum
The C-119 Flying Boxcar, developed from the Fairchild C-82 Packet, was a twin-engine, twin-boom, twin-tail transport designed to carry cargo, personnel, litter patients, and mechanized equipment, and to drop cargo and troops by parachute (utilizing its “clamshell” cargo doors at the rear of the cabin).
Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar - Military Wiki
The Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar (Navy and Marine Corps designation R4Q) was an American military transport aircraft developed from the World War II -era Fairchild C-82 Packet, designed to carry cargo, personnel, litter patients, and mechanized equipment, and to …
Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar – The Skyborne Workhorse
2023年5月26日 · In operation from the late 1940s to the 1970s, this robust transport aircraft, with its characteristic box-like fuselage, served as a crucial backbone of the United States Air Force’s (USAF) logistics and airlift capacity during the post-World War II and Cold War eras.
Fairchild C-119 "Boxcar" - Ruud Leeuw
In the late '60s, 52 C-119 Packets were pulled out of mothballs and sent to St. Augustine and modified to AC-119G 'Shadow' and AC-119K 'Stinger' gun ships, but those were only nicknames, as was the term "Flying Boxcar," which was applied to both the C-82 and C-119 because their cargo compartments were just about the same size as a railroad ...
Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar - The Aviation Zone
The C-119 Flying Boxcar, developed from the Fairchild C-82 Packet, was a twin-engine, twin-boom, twin-tail transport designed to carry cargo, personnel, litter patients, and mechanized equipment, and to drop cargo and troops by parachute …