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Aviation History
1956
1956 - 0015.PDF
15 AMERICA'S most capacious freighter (excluding the "one-off" XC-99, transport version of the B-36) is the Douglas^ C-124 Globemaster. At upper left one of these monsters is taking aboard the main hull section of a Piasecki H-21 helicopter. Britain's nearest counterpart is the Blackburn Beverley C.I, a specimen of which is seen, with its delivery crew, in the second picture, having crossed the Atlantic for winterization tests by the R.C.A.F. The assembly at lower left is celebrating the rolling out of the first Boeing B-52D Stratofortress (the B-52 is the world's largest jet bomber) from the Wichita division of the Boeing Airplane Company. Close by is a B-47E, completed almost simultaneously. The mammoth helicopter which dominates this page is the Hughes XH-17, seen lifting a record single load in the form of a 7,800-lb trailer van. Immediately below, specially clothed workmen wash down a radioactive Convair B-36 bomber—still the world's largest. Last is the world's mightiest aircraft carrier, the U.S.S. Forrested (CVA-59), moving away from her berth at Newport News. Her length is 1,040ft, her beam 248ft, and she will have a complement of 3,500.
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