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Trans World Airlines Jet-Packet 1600, with Westinghouse J30-W turbojet booster engine in pod above upper fuselage (1959) M22 Locust light tank being loaded into C-82 C-82A Packet freighter of Cruzeiro (Brasil) at Santos Dumont Airport, Rio de Janeiro, in May 1972 Packet of Taxpa Airlines (Chile) in 1972 C-82 Packet dropping U.S. Air Force paratroops in training exercise Three C-82s and various ...
The company had intended to enter the postwar civilian market with an upgraded Model 82 but the original tooling had been destroyed during the war years. The remaining Fairchild 82s remained in service until the late 1960s. [4] A 40-year-old mystery of the Arctic was solved when the remains of a Fairchild 82 were found south of Bathurst Inlet ...
Fairchild C-82 Packet: 1944: 223: Military transport Fairchild M-84: 1945: 1: Four-Five place family aircraft Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar: 1947: 1,183: Military transport Fairchild XNQ: 1949: 2: Trainer Fairchild C-123 Provider: 1949: 307: Military transport Fairchild XC-120 Packplane: 1950: 1: Military transport Fairchild Hiller F-27, FH-227 ...
C-82 Packet. In 1942, Fairchild developed the Fairchild Model 78, which was designed specifically for military transport. [4] He was awarded a military contract to build his large-capacity twin-boom plane, which featured a hinged rear door used to load bulky cargo to be designated the C-82 Packet. [4]
Mantz was killed in 1965 while flying a cobbled-together aircraft, the Tallmantz Phoenix P-1, designed with the assistance of Otto Timm, representing the fictional type built by oil explorers of pieces of their crashed Fairchild C-82 Packet downed in the North African desert in The Flight of the Phoenix (1965).
Fairchild C-82A Packet, N53228, indoor studio wreck Fairchild R4Q-1 Packet, BuNo. 126589, [ 2 ] non-flying Phoenix prop Although Frank Tallman had flown the Phoenix P-1 for the first aerial shots on July 7, 1965, he injured his leg in a freak go-kart accident with his young son and was hospitalized.
C-82s of the 316th Troop Carrier Group. Shortly after the 435th Troop Carrier Group was inactivated, the squadron was moved to Lawson Field, Georgia, where it became part of the 316th Troop Carrier Group. [1] The squadron initially operated Curtiss C-46 Commandos with the 316th. By 1947 it had converted to Fairchild C-82 Packet transports. With ...
C-82 may refer to: C-82 Packet, a United States Army Air Forces aircraft used after World War II; C82 may refer to : Corydoras loxozonus, a freshwater catfish; Ruy Lopez chess openings ECO code; Follicular lymphoma ICD-10 code; Social Policy (Non-Metropolitan Territories) Convention, 1947 code; Bresson Airport, a public use airport in Compton ...