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Description
| Manufacturer: | Fairchild |
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| Base model: | C-82 | ||
| Designation: | XC-82 | ||
| Nickname: | Packet | ||
| Designation System: | U.S. Air Force | ||
| Designation Period: | 1925-1962 | ||
| Basic role: | Transport | ||
| Status: | Experimental | ||
Specifications
| Not Yet Available |
Known serial numbers
Recent comments by our visitors
| Kevin Byrne Detroit, MI | For the writer who'd buy 1 for a few million, I've been pricing the C-82 (thinking of building a studio apt in the front of the cargo bay and hauling my car in the back by the ramp and living a gypsy life during my pending retirement) and they only cost about 1/4 of 1 million, so start saving now. I remember seeing these on the weekend flying over detroit in the early 60's (probably from Selfridge ANG base nearby w/ weekend warriors aboard) and then later w/ different paint moving auto parts out of Detroit City Airport.
kb 03/10/2005 @ 17:30 [ref: 9673] |
| twosocks4 , ON | Just love this aircraft!Fell in love during the movie"The
Flight of the Phoenix".I've seen other web sights were they say it's an ugly bird.I don't see it that way! I think it's beautiful!I like the way the fuselage bulges out in the middle then tapers straight at the ends, kind of like a B-24 liberator.The wings are shaped like a F4u Corsair.The twin booms like the P-38 lightening. All those intresting features,plus lining everything up so that it's all straight!Surely must be quite a job to build,especially for the forties. Matter of fact,I'm in the process of building my own C-82.It will have 36"in.wing span,balsa,tissue const.and rubber power.Will also be in the Fight of Pheonix colors. PS.If I had a few million dollars I'd buy one Thank you! 10/26/2002 @ 10:21 [ref: 5961] |
