Had an uncle who flew these out of March AFB in the 60's as a reservists. Ferried supplies to Vietnam. One hop to hawaii for refueling the then either Wake Island or P.I. then into South Vietnam. Don't remeber the intervols, once every couple months i think. He told me one trip they carried a load of beer for the troops ❤. This after he piloted a B-17 for 35+ missions over occupied France and Germany in early 1945. Retired full bird Colonel in 1970's. God Bless our military personnel.
I used to play on one that had crashed at the end of the runway at Ramey Air Force Base in Puerto Rico. (early 1960s) The C 119 has always been my favorite aricraft. Was hoping to own one when I got older, but they are so scare now I can't afford one. It's a shame they were never retrofitted with Turbo Prop engines off a C 130. We had a C 47 on our field behind my house for a while, but some guy in Alaska bought it.
Around 1960 we were flying our CAP L-16 when we picked up a strange vibration. I looked to our rear and a flight of C-119's out of Willow Grove PA were playing with us. We made a quick decent
This was the plane that was made airworthy to fly in the remake of the movie “Flight of the Phoenix” in 2004. It still has the logo of the fictional oil company from the movie on the nose. The plane originally had an auxiliary jet engine in a nacelle on top of the fuselage, but that was removed to make the plane cleaner looking for the movie.
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My father was a Air Force Reservist flying C-119 cargo planes in Indiana. In 1968 his unit was called to active duty. The planes were retrofitted with 7.62 mini guns and designated AC-119 “Shadow” gunships. Similar to the AC-47 Spooky “Puff the Magic Dragon “. The AC-119 had 4 mini-guns vs 3 on the AC-47. Each mini-gun could be switched to either 3000 or 6000 rounds per minute. Sorry Charlie. RIP Dad.
When I saw this plane in Port Of Spain Trinidad, it had the GE jet on the roof (and needed it for takeoff) and was headed back to Wyoming after filming In N. Africa. It had a large fuel tank inside of it and 3-blade props on it I'd never seen on one of these 3350-powered planes.
These planes were called the flying boxcar and know for being under powered and there frightening handling. Later on they mounted a smal jet engine on top of. above the cabin and wing that did nothing for runway performance
Hello. My name is Russ, and I would like to use 6 seconds of this video in a RU-vid video of my own to show how the landing gear goes down on a PBY. Would this be okay with you? I do not want to use someone else's copyrighted material without their permission. I would be using the video from 0:53 to 0:59. Thank you in advance!
The Cessna 170 is a harder aircraft to land correctly then a Cessna 180. Both aircraft need to be stalled 3 point on the ground. The C170 doesn't like a wheel on landing at all. The landing procedure is a conventional landing with a slight push forward in the flare and it's all over. Most problems i found with 170 students, is they don't understand the Cessna 170, 180 speed envelope is below 60 kts. You need to hear the stall warning in the 3 point flare to make sure your in the right speed range. The rudder is very powerful and a small amount of break is needed sometimes. But the rudder control and management is the key.
As a flight engineerand mechanic on the c 119 at Long Beach afb in 1958 i loved these very safe dependable planes,. The entire wing the 452nd to March afb riverside ca in 1960. 1963 we changed over to the c 124s and flew some of the c 119s to nationalist Chinese Air Force at ping ting afb Taiwan
A simple video that is a pleasure to watch and with sound (delicious!) to boot. It brings back the memory of a Sears catalog Christmas where my choice was a military toy set that had a 1/48 scale BOXCAR with a nose that swung open with a ramp and stuff the soldiers and vehicles into it for a safe mission. Only safe missions with me. At ease.
