Fairchild C-82 Packet/C-119 Flying Boxcar [Aerofax] New PB

Fairchild C-82 Packet/C-119 Flying Boxcar [Aerofax] New PB
These specialist twin-boom US military freighters have a significant history and are well known but underpublished. First flown in 1944, with deliveries from the end of 1945, the C-82 was the first freighter to really take advantage of the uninterrupted cargo hold and ground-level loading advantages conferred by the twin-boom layout. A planned lengthy production run was canceled after VJ-Day so that the total number built was 220, some of which served in the Berlin Airlift. An improved version, redesignated as the C-119, was developed from 1947 with deliveries beginning in 1949.