[Iris7]

We lost some real men over there.

I like the lead photo. I like his "Looks like this is it, son." I'll bet he did not sound excited.

The early C-119s had Wright R-3350s, the number two biggest radial after the Pratt R-4360. The number is cubic inches displacement.

The C-119s when loaded were called "flying coffins", according to my father who often flew in them. Loosing an engine while loaded was very bad news. A C-119 website by an old C-119 pilot talks about this: "a C-119 on one engine carrying a load like that (a replacement engine for an out of commission C-119, maybe 5,000 pounds) had the flight characteristics of an anvil." McGoon was a good pilot.

http://stripe.colorado.edu/~steinerd/C-119.html

[SAMWolf]

Morning Iris7.

I've been wondering how the remake of "Flight of the Phoenix" is, the original was pretty good. To me the airplane was the "star"

[snippy_about_it]

...had the flight characteristics of an anvil.

That's scary. They look very "heavy", very cumbersome. Real men indeed.