> > a herky bird is a C-130 Hercules 4 prop cargo plane, and it's huge.
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> > http://www.af.mil/news/factsheets/C_130_Hercules.html
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> > The C-5 Galaxy is a giant 4 jet-engined cargo/transport plane:
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> > http://www.af.mil:80/cgi-bin/multigate/retrieve?u=z3950r://dtics11:1024/photos!F40%3a933254611%3a%28c%2d5%29;esn=FT%5fTEXT%20HTML%200;ct=text/html
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> But what's a C119? A C54? A C47? My son-in-law flies a cargo plane. Ir's a 757.
> Howard

C47: The Douglas C-47 Skytrain was a WWII plane with a 4 bomb payload, three 7.9mm machine guns (nose, tail, bellygunner), and one 13mm machine gun (top). It was developed from the DC-3, and could carry troops, armament, and supplies.

C54: Another douglas, the C-54 Skymaster was a modified DC-4, capable of carrying 28,000 pounds of cargo/passengers. It was used in the Berlin Airlift, and as SACRED COW, President Roosevelt's special plane (these were the days before AirForce 1)

C119: Built by Fairchild and Kaiser, the C119 "Flying Boxcar" was designed for fast cargo transportation. It was loosely based on the C-82A, and originally called the XC-82B, but with a transplanted cockpit, and wider fuselage, (and stronger wings, more powerful engines) it was clearly not just an upgrade, but a whole new plane, so the Air Force redesignated it to C-119 when it rolled out in 1947.

Good nuff? ;)