Nice photo wl745, that is a C-124 Globemaster and we were talking about C-74 Globemasters!:)
Well, they are all Globemasters!
I remember (yes, here we go again!) when C-124 Globemasters used to fly in to RAAF Amberley, Queensland, landing in the dark. With their three rows of portholes lit, they looked like a hotel coming in!
Upon closer inspection, they were vast! Even the radio room was bigger than my living quarters. The USAF flight engineer showed me the tunnel through the wing which he said could be used to change a magneto in flight! I chickened out of crossing the open wheelwell through this tunnel.
He was from the ‘Deep South’ and I had trouble understanding his thick accent. But I did manage to ask him how a huge aircraft such as this could fly with just four engines and he replied “they aint jest four engines, buddy. They’se got four rows o’ seven in each one!”
I was a new instrument basher at the time and was amazed/horrified that the engineer’s instrument panel had over 80 instruments to deal with.
Yes, I could write a book – and I have but not on this subject!
Hope I haven’t bored you all. But these planes really took the biscuit.
Bri 🙂
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