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[bearhunter]

Why Fairchild C-119 was named Flying Boxcar

And Canadian version of 'Can of whoopass" contents in one of the above mentioned Boxcars.

There used to be a crumpled tail from one of those at the Fort Nelson airport. The last time I saw that tail section was at the Alaska Highway Museum on the north end of FN. It had been cut in half, for transport and was being used as a fence.

 

[diopter]

 

[purple]

Those dollar nineteens were very noisy.

 

[Dosing]

Why Fairchild C-119 was named Flying Boxcar

Thought she looked familiar, Greybull Wyoming, some pics of her I took a few years ago:

 

[donor]

Any time Dan. Someone has to kick the turntable when it starts to skip

"Flight of The Phoenix" film from 1965 starred Fairchild C-89 Packet-father of C-119 Boxcar if you will.It flew in late 1944 and served until C-119 replaced it.

Family resemblance is there,C-89 looks much more cumbersome and it likely was considering much smaller engines used.

 

[bush1]

Those dollar nineteens were very noisy.

Oh yes they were.
My first ride in a RCAF aircraft was on one of these enroute to Sea Island as an Air Cadet going to summer camp. Returned home a few weeks later on one of our brand new C-130’s.

 

[johnny rotten]

I like the all black boxcars with the searchlight, miniguns, and early IR targeting optic setup
Would have been quite ride on one of those babys

 

[AP]

I saw a lot of them as well as Globemasters in Fort Churchill as a kid. I recall several large airborne exercises .... the Americans had great chocolate bars in their rations.

 

[diopter]

Hey! I want in too!

 

[bjmurata]

F-108 Rapier,would have been quite a performer had it gone into service.

 

[fat tony]

Irish Army Ranger Wing members on a 'small game hunting junket,' (my addition ) East Timor date and precise location unknown. Ll the far commando has an FN P90. Wait it looks more like the SMG version of STEYR AUG. More hitting pwr.

 

[sail32]

I flew from Christchurch to Auckland in a New Zealand Air Force Bristol Type 170 Freighter.

They were moving a group of their Territorial Reserves, either to or from an exercise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Freighter

 

[tech551]

Another photo of The RCAF C-119s in Greybull Wyoming.

 

[Ganderite]

Old milsurp airplanes, Rum and COVID19

 

[fat tony]

I flew from Christchurch to Auckland in a New Zealand Air Force Bristol Type 170 Freighter.

They moving a group of their Territorial Reserves, either to or from an exercise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Freighter

The post WWII Brit freight haulers were unique and lovely in their own way. Blackburn Beverley:

This craft was a beast.

Bristol 170 in NZ:

Hey there are a few Bristol 170's in Canada & they were in RCAF svc even.

 

[Grizzly Adams]

The post WWII Brit freight haulers were unique and lovely in their own way. Blackburn Beverley:

This craft was a beast.

Bristol 170 in NZ:

Hey there are a few Bristol 170's in Canada & they were in RCAF svc even.

First time i ever heard a Blackburn aircraft described as Lovely.

Grizz

 

[fat tony]

First time i ever heard a Blackburn aircraft described as Lovely.

Grizz

Liking a strange piece every now and then broadens your horizons!

Here's an old pic of a Bristol 170 in RCAF markings:

The Bristol 170 was designed to fly loads of cars and passengers around & was replaced in this dubious role by something called an Atl 98 Carvair, a conversion of a DC4. Why are the English so stir crazy? Supposedly a few Carvairs were leased by the UN for use in the Belgian Congo, not sure if they were used in military ops or for humanitarian/cargo shuttling.

 

[XRCD011]

^ I tried to find some good pictures of the Bristol 170 flying in stripped M24 Chaffee tanks to Dien Bien Phu, but no luck. The MVPA magazine did a super article on that subject.

 

[sail32]

The film, " Air America ", had some interesting planes in it !

https://www.impdb.org/index.php?title=Air_America_(Film)#Hawker_Siddeley_HS.748_Srs.2.2F208

It had a Fairchild C-123K Provider and a DC-3 in it.

 

[tiriaq]

Anyone have a photo of the Bristol Freighter on the pedestal in Yellowknife?