Navigating the C-124 Globemaster

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The C-124 Globemaster--a U.S. military heavy-lift transport in service 1950 through 1974--barreling down a runway was an awesome sight. The aircraft's four 3800 hp piston engines (the largest ever mass-produced), mounted on its 174-foot wingspan, could carry a 69,000-pound payload of tanks, artillery or other cargo, or 200 fully equipped troops, at more than 300 mph.
The flight crew, perched three stories above the landing gears in an unpressurized cockpit, relied, like Magellan, on celestial fixes to navigate over oceans. With a world-wide mission delivering troops and materials to such destinations as the Congo, Vietnam, Thule, Greenland and Antarctica, the Globemaster lived up to its name and was foundational to what Time magazine publisher Henry Luce termed the ""American Century.""
Drawing on archives, Air Force bases, libraries and accident sites, and his own recollections as a navigator, the author details Cold War confrontations and consequent strategies that emerged after Douglas Aircraft Company delivered the first C-124A to the Military Air Transport Service in 1949.

Über den Autor

Billy D. Higgins teaches history at the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction

¿1.¿"Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth...": Rolling Takeoffs

¿2.¿"Rush by air": Building an Aluminum Overcast

¿3.¿"The West Point of the Air": Undergraduate Navigator Training

¿4.¿"Ike's Bluff": The Cold War and Civil Wars

¿5.¿"Hairy conditions": Over the Oceans

¿6.¿"Birthplace of Winds": From Attu to Zaire

¿7.¿"The Right Stuff": Crewing Old Shaky

¿8.¿"Fate Is the Hunter": Mountains and Thunderstorms

¿9.¿"Sorry 'bout that": Korea and Vietnam

10.¿"The backbone of airlift": Epilogue

Appendix: C-124 Globemaster Accidents Involving Loss of Life or Loss of Airplane

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index

Details

Empfohlen (von):	18
Erscheinungsjahr:	2019
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781476677637
ISBN-10:	1476677638
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Higgins, Billy D.
Hersteller:	McFarland
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 14 mm
Von/Mit:	Billy D. Higgins
Erscheinungsdatum:	09.08.2019
Gewicht:	0,365 kg