Unknown AIr Force Plane but is it from WWII?

• Dec 23, 2020

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What is this monster? Looks like one of those large 4 engine planes used by MATS towards end of WWII.



Surrounded by B-29 so I guess has to be near enough to WWII period.

J.

 

• Dec 24, 2020

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Douglas C-74 Globemaster?

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• Dec 24, 2020

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Thank you sir. When you see the engineer's heads disappearing between the cylinder rows you know you've got a Pratt & Whitney R-4360 - a beast of an engine.

J.

 

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• Dec 24, 2020

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My brother, his wife and 2 children flew back from Germany in a MATS C-124 in about 1960-61
He said it was the most miserable flight he'd ever been on, about everybody on board got airsick.

 

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• Dec 25, 2020

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Definitely a C-74. The "bug eye"canopies is a giveaway.






Photos from Douglas.

While design started in 1942, the first aircraft didn't fly until September of 1945. Only 17 aircraft were built after a large WW-2 contract was cancelled at the end of the war. So, although I would say definitely a postwar aircraft, I suppose you could say it was a WW-2 aircraft since design and building occurred during the war.

 

• Dec 25, 2020

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Very cool! Maybe in time for the intended invasion of Japan?

 

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• Dec 25, 2020

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tyrodtom said:

My brother, his wife and 2 children flew back from Germany in a MATS C-124 in about 1960-61
He said it was the most miserable flight he'd ever been on, about everybody on board got airsick.

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And slow. I think there are still a few C-124s out over the Pacific trying to get home!

 

• Dec 26, 2020

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Ginter books recently released a book on this aircraft.