C-117
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C-117
Apologies if it's in the wrong bit but.........
I was driving up the A30 this lunchtime and as I passed Exeter aerodrome there was a C-117 about to land. Are these regular visiters there or was this something else. I just wondered that's all.
I was driving up the A30 this lunchtime and as I passed Exeter aerodrome there was a C-117 about to land. Are these regular visiters there or was this something else. I just wondered that's all.
This is a Globemaster.......the jet namesake is the Globemaster II.
Cockpit of the Aerial Demonstration aircraft used by MATS in those days.
Cockpit of the Aerial Demonstration aircraft used by MATS in those days.
Slipper wins a Kewpee Doll....the C-74 was the Globemaster and the other two are namesakes.....although the II is a close sibling.
Interesting feature is the two independent cockpits for the Pilots...later changed to a conventional cockpit setup.
Can you imagine an intercom failure....however would they have coped without being able to talk to one another?
Can you imagine an intercom failure....however would they have coped without being able to talk to one another?
After "gear up !" is there anything left to say ?
SAS
There were not two independent cockpits, just two independent canopies. Beneath the canopies was a single compartment. So an intercom failure should not have been a problem.
See: Views of USAF C-74 aircraft. Instrument panel, cockpit, maintenance access, takeoff, landing, flying on only two engines
There were not two independent cockpits, just two independent canopies. Beneath the canopies was a single compartment. So an intercom failure should not have been a problem.
See: Views of USAF C-74 aircraft. Instrument panel, cockpit, maintenance access, takeoff, landing, flying on only two engines
Dusting of the anorak...
Isn't the picture in SAless first post a C47?
The C117 had square cut wingtips and a different tail design, if memory serves....
The C117 had square cut wingtips and a different tail design, if memory serves....
There was one in the "Italian Job".
The US Navy used the R4D designation for what the Air Force called the C-47, there were some Square tails with up rated engines known as R4D-8's.
Everything one wanted to know about R4D's....and was afraid to ask!
Douglas R4D Gooneybird, by Jack McKillop
R4D
The US Navy used the R4D designation for what the Air Force called the C-47, there were some Square tails with up rated engines known as R4D-8's.
Everything one wanted to know about R4D's....and was afraid to ask!
Douglas R4D Gooneybird, by Jack McKillop
R4D
Last edited by SASless; 12th Jan 2012 at 13:59.
Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
Didn't the C-74 feature as a Chinese government plane in the original version of The Italian Job ?
It was retired from service in 1956 and, after reconditioning at Oakland, registered by Aeronaves de Panama as HP-379 (probably a CIA-backed airlne).
By 1963 it, and two other civil Globemaster-Is ,were flying cargo in Europe for Air Systems. The company went out of business after one of the Globemaster Is crashed at Marseilles in October 1963 and HP-379 was abandoned in Milan. By 1969 it had been flown to the Turin Airport and the film company painted it in the colors of the fictitious Communist Chinese Civil Aviation Airlines Corporation for The Italian Job.
It caught fire while on public display Jun 11, 1970 and again on Sep 24, 1970, this time killing two salvage workers, at which time it was scrapped.