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Item specifics
- Condition
- Book Title
- Navigating the C-124 Globemaster : In the Cockpit of America's Fi
- ISBN
- 9781476677637
- Subject Area
- Transportation, History
- Publication Name
- Navigating the C-124 Globemaster : in the Cockpit of America's First Strategic Heavy-Lift Aircraft
- Publisher
- Mcfarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Subject
- Aviation / General, Military / Aviation
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.4 in
- Item Weight
- 10.4 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 219 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Mcfarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
ISBN-10
1476677638
ISBN-13
9781476677637
eBay Product ID (ePID)
4038708142
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
219 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Navigating the C-124 Globemaster : in the Cockpit of America's First Strategic Heavy-Lift Aircraft
Subject
Aviation / General, Military / Aviation
Publication Year
2019
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Transportation, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
10.4 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2019-026994
Reviews
" Navigating the C-124 Globemaster is a serious and important work, equal parts aviation/navigation history and old-fashioned travelogue. The writing gurus are always talking about the textural imperative of storytelling...sights, sounds, smells, tastes. Well, mission accomplished, it's all there. Reading this work, I felt like I was in that bubble and cockpit with Lt. Higgins and crew, out in the netherworld of the Pacific or reversing engines in a typhoon of dust on a makeshift runway at Pleiku, Vietnam. An adventure in aviation not to be missed."--Phil Karber, two-time Lowell Thomas medalist and author of Postmarks from a Political Traveler; Fear and Faith in Paradise: Exploring Conflict and Religion in the Middle East and The Indochina Chronicles: Travels in Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, " Navigating the C-124 Globemaster is a serious and important work, equal parts aviation/navigation history and old-fashioned travelogue. The writing gurus are always talking about the textural imperative of storytelling--sights, sounds, smells, tastes. Well, mission accomplished, it's all there. Reading this work, I felt like I was in that bubble and cockpit with Lt. Higgins and crew, out in the netherworld of the Pacific or reversing engines in a typhoon of dust on a makeshift runway at Pleiku, Vietnam. An adventure in aviation not to be missed."--Phil Karber, two-time Lowell Thomas medalist and author of Postmarks from a Political Traveler; Fear and Faith in Paradise: Exploring Conflict and Religion in the Middle East and The Indochina Chronicles: Travels in Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam
Dewey Edition
23
Number of Volumes
1 vol.
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
358.4483
Table Of Content
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction 1. "Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth...": Rolling Takeoffs 2. "Rush by air": Building an Aluminum Overcast 3. "The West Point of the Air": Undergraduate Navigator Training 4. "Ike's Bluff": The Cold War and Civil Wars 5. "Hairy conditions": Over the Oceans 6. "Birthplace of Winds": From Attu to Zaire 7. "The Right Stuff": Crewing Old Shaky 8. "Fate Is the Hunter": Mountains and Thunderstorms 9. "Sorry 'bout that": Korea and Vietnam 10. "The backbone of airlift": Epilogue Appendix: C-124 Globemaster Accidents Involving Loss of Life or Loss of Airplane Chapter Notes Bibliography Index
Synopsis
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 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., 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.
LC Classification Number
UG1242.T7H54 2019
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- 22 Jan, 2020
Great narrative if you have an interest in the C-124 Globemaster II aircraft!
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