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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 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 to carry cargo, personnel, litter patients, and mechanized equipment, and to drop cargo and troops by parachute.
The C-82 Packet led to the C-119 Flying Boxcar, another U.S. military transport aircraft. The C-119 could carry cargo, personnel, stretcher patients and mechanized equipment with the ability to make "paradrops" of cargo and troops. The first C-119 made its initial flight in November 1947, and by the time production ceased in 1955, more than ...
Fairchild 82 CF-AXC of British Yukon Navigation, on the ice at Mayo Dominion Skyways Fairchild 82. The Fairchild 82 was a rugged aircraft and it found a niche as a freighter especially in northern Canada, although export versions were used for a variety of roles including surveying and light transport.
Boeing B-29 Superfortress 44-27297 "Bockscar" – weapon delivery aircraft used in ... fighter of the Korean People's Air Force ... C-82 Packet. Fairchild C ...
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 ...
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]
The C-82 Packet twin-engined, twin-boom cargo aircraft designed and built by Fairchild Aircraft was named as a tribute to the packet boat. [citation needed] It was used by the United States Army Air Forces and its successor the United States Air Force following World War II. [citation needed]