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Aviation History
1950
1950 - 0070.PDF
Preparing a complete Wasp Major power-plant for loading intoa Stratofreighter. The rocking engine-stand is noteworthy. The austere, tube-like interior of the troop-carrying C-97A ( full j STRAXJCX* Boeing's Pressurized Military Cargo and Person .EXTERNALLY, the Boeing. C-97 Strato- freighter >might well confused with its c: Counterpart, the Stra cruiser, for which 1944 — ^ originally served as a prototype. As shown on these pages, however, C-97's interior layout was planned to facilitate long-range carriage of bulky military loads and large numbers of personnel, and the resemblance within is confined mainly to the familiar "double-bubble" fuselage section. Stratofreighters have been in service—both regular and experimental—with the U.S.A.F. since 1945. By October, 1947, thirteen examples of various sub-types (prefixed "X" and "Y") had been delivered, and in that month the Military Air Transport Service of the U.S.A.F. re- ceived the first of a full-production order for 50 C-97AS. Thirty-seven C-97AS have been allotted to the M.A.T.S., and the remainder will be divided between Strategic Air Command and other units of the U.S.A.F. The C-97A, which forms the subject of these illustrations, may be dis- tinguished from earlier versions by the installation of a radar blister in the nose and the use of Hamilton Standard "cropped" four-blade airscrews for its 3,500 h.p. Pratt and Whitney Wasp Majors. The majority of C-97S already in service with M.A.T.S. have been used as high-density passenger transports with The " clam-shedl " doors open to admit a 105 mm. howitzer.
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