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' Transport Aircraft
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-119J Flying Boxcar - National Museum of the USAF
This C-119J Flying Boxcar made the world’s first mid-air recovery of an object returning from space. In August 1960, it caught the Discoverer XIV satellite using recovery gear lowered from the open rear door.
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.
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\” - National Warplane Museum
The Fairchild C119 Flying Boxcar was produced at the Fairchild aircraft plant in Hagerstown, MD. Some C119s were built by the Kaiser-Frazer Corp. in Willow Run, MI starting in 1951. The aircraft was in production from 1949-1955.
Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar | Military Wiki | Fandom
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 - Warbird Alley
Now a potent weapon, the C-119 was made even more so by the introduction of the AC-119K "Stinger," which featured the addition of two 20-mm cannon, improved avionics, and two underwing-mounted J-85-GE-17 turbojet engines, adding nearly 6,000 lbs. of thrust.
Fairchild C-119G Flying Boxcar - Hill Aerospace Museum
Fairchild Aircraft manufactured the C-119 Flying Boxcar to carry cargo, military personnel, or medical patients. Developed in November of 1947, this aircraft used two Wright R-3350 engines and has a maximum payload of 20,000 pounds.