| | Airlift Force RAF Transport Command 1948-1967 By Colin Ovens
Consider, for a moment, these three Royal Air Force Command
titles:-
"Royal Air Force Bomber Command"- a name that, for many, may
generate imposing images of Wellingtons, Halifaxs, Stirlings,
Lancasters, Mosquitos, Lincolns, BAC/EE Canberra s, and the V-Bombers;
"Royal Air Force Fighter Command"- a Command title that readily
conjures up exciting images of Hurricanes, Spitfires, Tempests,
Meteors, Vampires, Hunters, and Lightnings;
"Royal Air Force Coastal Command"- a renowned name that may
prompt dramatic over-water images of Sunderlands, Beaufighters,
Mosquitos, Catalinas, Liberators, and Shackletons.
Now, consider the title "Royal Air Force Transport Command"... to
many readers this may prompt images of huge formations of Dakotas,
disgorging paratroops over Normandy, Arnhem, or the Rhine; others
will have a recollection of the Berlin Airlift. On the other hand, many
of us will recall seeing, and ignoring, the occasional Argosy,
Beverley, Bristol Britannia , Hastings, Comet, or, perhaps, a VC-10, in the
static park at a Battle of Britain Open Day, while they aimed their
cameras at the Hunters, Gloster Javelins, Lightnings, V-Bombers, or
Shackletons on show- these were the exciting defenders of these isles;
and those others..? "They're just superannuated airliners", as a
school-friend airily dismissed Transport Command's contribution to a
Battle of Britain Open Day, at RAF Biggin Hill in the mid-1960s,
when we two were teenagers.
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| | McDonnell-Douglas C-9A 'Nightingale'/C-9B 'Skytrain II' By Steve Ginter
96-Pages, Almost all color: the book has 178 color photos, 26 b&w photos, 27 color patches, 35 illustrations.
The iconic Douglas DC-9 airliner was chosen by the USAF for a aeromedical evacuation and VIP transport aircraft as the C-9A and VC-9C respectively and by the US Navy/USMC as a passenger/cargo aircraft as the C-9B. 21 C-9As and 3 VC-9Cs were built for the USAF, while 17 C-9Bs were built for the USN/USMC as well as 14 ex-civil airliners that were leased and or purchased by the Navy. Many of the purchased DC-9s were converted to C-9B standards with the addition of a large cargo loading door on the forward left-hand side of the fuselage. A 32nd C-9B was purchased through the Navy but operated by the US government and later by Ratheon as a NC-9D. Two other C-9Bs were purchased through the Navy for Kuwait and one Navy C-9B was transferred to NASA as the "Vomit Comet" negative G test vehicle. More |
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