The Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar (Navy and Marine Corps designation R4Q) is an American military transport aircraft developed from the World War II-era Fairchild C-82 Packet, designed …

2024年3月4日 · Converted C-119 gunships provided effective close ground support in the Vietnam War. The Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar was a twin-boom twin-tail military transport …

This C-119J Flying Boxcar made the world’s first mid-air recovery of an object returning from space. In August 1960, it caught the Discoverer XIV satellite using recovery gear lowered from …

The C-119 Flying Boxcar, developed from the Fairchild C-82 Packet, was a twin-engine, twin-boom, twin-tail transport designed to carry cargo, personnel, litter patients, and mechanized …

C-119 Flying Boxcar features a powerful engine and a stronger and wider airframe. Its first prototype, known as XC-82B, first blew last November 1947, which contain deliveries of the C …

The C-119 was designed to carry cargo, personnel, litter patients, and mechanized equipment, and to drop cargo and troops by parachute. The first C-119 made its initial flight in November …

2023年5月26日 · In operation from the late 1940s to the 1970s, this robust transport aircraft, with its characteristic box-like fuselage, served as a crucial backbone of the United States Air …

In the late '60s, 52 C-119 Packets were pulled out of mothballs and sent to St. Augustine and modified to AC-119G 'Shadow' and AC-119K 'Stinger' gun ships, but those were only …

Now a potent weapon, the C-119 was made even more so by the introduction of the AC-119K "Stinger," which featured the addition of two 20-mm cannon, improved avionics, and two …

2018年7月10日 · Page details technical specifications, development, and operational history of the Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar Military Transport / Gunship Aircraft including pictures.