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
Lackland AFB, San Antonio, Texas (March 2007).
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))
[edit] Nicknames
A recent edit left us stuck halfway between "Flying Boxcar" as a nickname and Flying Boxcar as an official designation. Which is correct? Also: what about "Dollar nineteen" or "Buck nineteen" as nicknames for its USAF model number? I don't have any suitable references. Binksternet (talk) 17:13, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Starting the engines
I just saw Flight of the Phoenix (2004 film). In it, they start the engine using some kind of explosive cartridge device. What is it? I've looked at the articles for both kinds of engines and it doesn't say anything about how they are started. --RenniePet (talk) 17:38, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
- Common starter for a bunch of military engines: Coffman engine starter. Saves weight and complexity as compared to an electric starter. Binksternet (talk) 18:59, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
