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Military Air Transport Service
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The Packet: Fairchild’s Innovative But Flawed Airlifter Design
The C-82A Was a Groundbreaking Transport But In the End It Just Couldn’t Hack It When Fairchild began development of what would become their C-82 Packet to meet a 1941…
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The One Plane That Influenced Nearly Every Other Modern Airlifter
This Douglas Design Proved to Be the Magic Ticket for Airlifter Design the World Over On April 23rd 1956 the Douglas C-133 Cargomaster flew for the first time. The forgotten…
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