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The C-124 Globemaster-a U.S. military heavy-lift transport in
service 1950 through 1974-barreling down a runway was an awesome
sight. The aircraft's four 3800 hp piston engines (the largest ever
mass-produced), mounted on its 174-foot wingspan, could carry a
69,000-pound payload of tanks, artillery or other cargo, or 200
fully equipped troops, at more than 300 mph. The flight crew,
perched three stories above the landing gears in an unpressurized
cockpit, relied, like Magellan, on celestial fixes to navigate over
oceans. With a world-wide mission delivering troops and materials
to such destinations as the Congo, Vietnam, Thule, Greenland and
Antarctica, the Globemaster lived up to its name and was
foundational to what Time magazine publisher Henry Luce termed the
"American Century." Drawing on coast-to-coast visits to archives,
Air Force bases, libraries and accident sites, and his own
recollections as a navigator, the author details Cold War
confrontations and consequent strategies that emerged after Douglas
Aircraft Company delivered the first C-124A to the Military Air
Transport Service in 1949.
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