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Post by Col7777 on Aug 23, 2008 12:03:42 GMT -5
Is anyone using a C-82 cargo carrier? I've downloaded one from Avsim and I also got an Imperial Airways paint for it, I'll have it doing a few runs but not sure if it is fictional or not.
Looking on Wikipedia it say the C-82 was under powered and Fairchild made a C-82A then a C-82B which became the C-119 Boxcar, most were military but there was a few civil versions.
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Post by jesse on Aug 23, 2008 12:46:57 GMT -5
Col, we used the C-82 Packet in USAF for a number of years. It was a very reliable aircraft and could haul just about anything that you could load aboard thru the back clamshell doors. We used it extensively in AACS for hauling nav aid equipment all over the country. I only experienced one engine failure and that was when on a flight from Tinker AFB in Oklahoma to Andrews AFB in Maryland. We had just passed Springfield, Missouri when #2 engine swallowed a valve. We shut it down, feathered the prop and turned back to land at Springfield airport. We called Tinker and they said they would get a new engine up to us in a matter of hours. It turned out we sat there for eleven days waiting for the engine. Once our crew chief got it installed and tuned up we proceded on to Andrews, dropped off the cargo and then flew on to Wright Patterson AFB in Ohio. There we landed in a really big snow storm. Dropped off our equipment and then proceded home to Tinker. All in a little over two weeks. On board we had a GCA unit, a couple of jeeps and a AN/CRD-6 direction finding unit.
Jesse
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Post by Col7777 on Aug 23, 2008 14:05:14 GMT -5
Wow! That a great story Jesse, I would love to sit with you and chat about those days and hear some more.
My Father was in the RAF but he never ever talked about his time in the service, he worked on radio and that is all I know, he never flew.
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Post by Willy on Aug 23, 2008 14:34:43 GMT -5
I've got the "Flight of the Phoenix" one from the original movie that includes the "Phoenix". Haven't flown it in a long time, but I did do an AI conversion of it that flies very well. I also found a set of TWA textures for it. So, I've got it flying around the middle east in the movie textures and elsewhere hauling cargo for TWA.
Good story Jesse. I love hearing stuff like that myself.
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Post by Adrian Wainer on Aug 23, 2008 15:54:01 GMT -5
An Imperial Airways paint for it, I'll have it doing a few runs but not sure if it is fictional or not. Are you sure the paint scheme is "Imperial Airways" any chance it is "Imperial Airlines"? Best and Warm Regards Adrian Wainer |
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Post by Col7777 on Aug 23, 2008 17:48:54 GMT -5
No, it's Imperial Airways.
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Post by Tom/CalClassic on Aug 23, 2008 18:12:07 GMT -5
Hi,
The TWA Packet flew spare engines, mostly around Europe, but it did get to the US occasionally.
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Post by volkerboehme on Aug 24, 2008 5:27:37 GMT -5
Hi,
I once read that Qantas supposedly used their DC-4s mainly for hauling spare Constellation R-3350 engines. That might have been the impression of a maintanance mechanic at a base - each time a DC-4 lands, he soon finds another engine for overhaul or reapair in his shop soon afterwards.
Sonds a bit like 'navigation coal': coal shipped by sailing ship to various places in the world, to allow coaling for the early, very coal-hungry steamers.
Best regards,
Volker
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Post by Adrian Wainer on Aug 24, 2008 15:38:06 GMT -5
Hi Volker Re Constellation R-3350 engines would one of them fit inside a DC-4?
Best and Warm Regards
Adrian Wainer
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Post by Tom/CalClassic on Aug 24, 2008 17:35:30 GMT -5
Easily.
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Post by qxtoolman on Aug 25, 2008 0:10:17 GMT -5
Not to Hijack this thread, but when I started here @ QX the Metros were still flying, and Dash8-Q100's were flying too. At night they used to put the PW-120's down the center aisle of a Metro and fly them Boise. You could imagine the shock of seeing one come in that way.
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