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    US Air Force orders the Convair Model 6 ultra-heavy airlifter

    I read that Convair proposed the Model 6 heavy-lift transport as a derivative of the Advanced C-99 project with the backswept wings and tail surfaces from the YB-60 competitor to the B-52, and I wanted to ask what the course of US heavy-lift capability during the early Cold War would have been...
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    Convair XC-99 and derivatives

    The world's largest land plane, the XC-99, made its first flight in San Diego on 23 November 1947. The XC-99, serial 43-52436, is a double deck transport variant of the B-36. It has a considerably larger fuselage, but was never fitted with jet pods. The wingspan is the same 230 feet, but the...
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    • 1940s 1950s air transport command cold war consolidated vultee convair heavy transport korean war military air transport service nuclear powered aircraft pan am pan american world airways post-world war ii united states air force united states army air forces world war ii
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    • Forum: Secret Early Aircraft Projects
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    Boeing C-135 variants

    Hi, When I got a variants to Beoing C-135, I think it was not interesting, but when I read it I find many variants were little known. C-135A cargo/troop transport aircraft for US Military Air Transport Service with J57-59W engines. EC-135A conversions of KC-135A as flying command post and...
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    • Forum: Designation Systems
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