C-133 Penultimate flight

[Tomliner]

Yes you are right Garry,it is the Globemaster 2.In fact having just looked on Wikipedia, the model is of the C-124C with the Radome.The Wikipedia website has some photos including flight deck piccies. EricT

[DispatchDragon]

Eric

I spent a couple of years living under the flight path for Dobbins ARB which in the late 60s was home to a USAF Reserve
Cargo wing flying C124s the huge double fuselage and the very very thin Davis wing made them look very improbable departing
on Hot Gerogia summer afternoons - Out of interest they were at the time doing a very very morbid job. They were
employed in returning body bags from Vietnam. The Commander of the wing was interesting as well - in the mid 60s it
was Jimmy Stewart. - The C133 was specifically built to carry Atlas ICBMs around the place and were fairly rare to see in
service I remember hearing that some Alaskan Fuel carrier had three I believe operating up there. Nice to see one is
going to a good home and not to beer cans


Leif

[Tomliner]

Hi Leif.Thanks for that info.You're right about the fuselage to wing dimension/ratio.Almost the mechanical equivalent of the bumble bee!.I bet the sound of the C-124 at take-off was something to behold! EricT

[Garry Russell]

I used to see C-124 flying ups the side form me at about 20-30 miles and the looked at that distance like an airship.

Pistons at that heighht look slow, they looked almost stationary due to their bulk.

Never saw a C-133 as Leif says they were specialist and there was not that many of them..well not by US standards.

The C-133 always looked a little odd to me, quite graceful for and airlifter but then the nose almost looking like an after though.

Odd as well for such a big aeroplane to have three bladed props. The first C-130 did as well but these thing were a lot bigger.

One for CT.were the engines the same as the B-36/C-99? they have that special sound about them which reminds me of those and they had three bladed as well :think:

Garry