Talk:C-119 Flying Boxcar
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[edit] Wright engine
The Wright engine started appearing in 1952 with the Kaiser-built C-119F model. It later appeared in Fairchild built models.
The text of this article was copied from the USAF Museum website. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Rsduhamel (talk • contribs) 10:54, January 7, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Comment moved from article
Post-Korea models of the C-119 used P&W 4360 engines. The plane also had a glycol tank (~300 gal) behind each engine which was used to give (considerable) additional horsepower for takeoff. In addition, the cargo area contained a mono-rail system for rapid air drops of cargo. Also, practically everything was electrically operated as opposed to the use of hydraulics.
At the flight engineers desk (behind the co-pilot) he could monitor the firing of all 56 sparkplugs (2 per cyl) on a small oscilloscope and, if necessary, unfoul them in flight by injecting raw gas onto them. (I do not think a C-124 could do this and it had 6 of these engines, but I am doing this from memory and I only worked on a few of the 124's).
At my airbase in southern Japan, Ashia, we had about 100 C-119's flying around the clock from several squadrons on that base. I worked in base maintainance at that time and before that I worked as ground flight crew on C-119's at Greenville AFB, South Carolina.
User:165.247.32.160 Bob Huber, winsig@postmark.net
- I moved this to talk page, leaving first paragraph and first sentence of second in article as well. Gene Nygaard 10:13, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Abbreviation
From the article:
- In July 1950, four C-119s were sent to FEAF for service tests.
Can someone please expand FEAF? --rogerd 16:21, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
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- Well, I figured it out myself - United States Far East Air Force --rogerd 17:01, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Survivors
I have a reference for the number of surviving C-119 under FAA registration[1], but I haven't done any further research to verify the information in this section of the article. (Born2flie 20:08, 10 September 2006 (UTC))
