That's the rolls Royce merlin 😉

@@richardpaul2241 Um well no. It's a Wright R-3350 Duplex-Cyclone. Merlin engines would never have been adapted for the C-119.

@@danahan01 was a sort of joke 😉

@@richardpaul2241 Okie Dokie!!

@@richardpaul2241 Although I have seen them in Alaska back in the 1980's with a jet engine on top to provide extra thrust when taking off loaded from a beach on Bristol Bay.....

I enlisted in 1968 and when being a scope dope got old I cross-trained into Ground Radio. I stuck with that until 1995.

I remember once on one of our summer camps we flew down to Fort Campbell to drop troops for their training mission. After we loaded back up and were getting ready to fly back to Bakalar AFB, Col Pound came aboard and came over to me and said "Hey First, you want to drive home",(he always called me First), up to that time the only thing I ever flew was a kite. So I said if you think I can OK. He said when we get to altitude he would call me up to the cockpit. He did and set me in the pilots seat, he said "when your ready just push the button on the wheel labeled Auto-pilot and shes all yours, we are flying a corridor mission just follow the guy ahead". Boy I hand flew that big bird all the way back to Bakalar. When I got out of that seat so he could land the plane, my arms felt like they weighed 50 lbs apiece

I flew with the 71st as a gunner (RegAF); sadly those guys deros'd in June 69. I stayed for the remainder of 69. Best bunch of men I ever met. All of the Reserve guys on our crew have passed; only three of us left from the 8 man crew. I was on Maj Dick Morgan's crew. Flew with Don Brogan and Squire Riley.

@@roberttate5138 Major Morgan let me take the controls for about 15 mins as we were RTB to Phan Rang after a mission. Definitely felt like a truck. She was a truly great airplane, that never got the respect she deserved. Out of 52 converted to gunships, we only lost 6. She always brought us home; with only a few men lost in five years of operations.

I was in the 72nd 1967-1975. After the ALL the C-119s of the 71st & 72nd were taken for SEA along w\all crews we were left at Grissom AFB, IN. We flew 3 different aircraft before I left.

Same here

My Uncle worked on these----all the time. He said the first thing they did was to check and make sure that both engines had a puddle of oil under them. I was puzzled about his remark, then he added, "That at least proved that the engines had oil in them". The engines were powerful but oil leaks were common in radial engines.

I didn't know they had flight engineers. I thought the third seat was for the radio operator.

My Dad was in the 101st about then.

That's right.....because the ones with square engines are imaginary.😏

No I forbid you

Jimmy Stewart flew a C-82 Packet in the original Flight of the Phoenix: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_C-82_Packet

CZrv4 No that’s a A 26

Nope. The Wasp Major is too big for Coffman starters...unless the Coffman Company made a 2gauge version (literally a cannon caliber) of their starter. The movie was bullshit

The Jimmy Stewart version of the movie used a C-82, which is similar to the C-119 and it probably did use the Coffman starter. If General Stewart was still alive perhaps we could ask him.

I flew them at Grissom.

C-119G had Wright R3350's

+Escape for Mankind *VERY* true...

At one point they were fairly common, being installed on C-119's C-97's, KC-97's, the Goodyear-built variant of the Corsair fighter (the F2G) The B-36 had sis of them, as did the Hughes H-4 (the Spruce Goose"). 28 cylinders, and if you screwed the pooch on startup, all 56 spark plugs had to be swapped out before you could go anywhere.

That must've sucked. I still wish more post-warbirds used it.

*Actually today's engine builders have steadily upgraded the old Radials* *Let me give you an example. The original B-29's flew with Wright Cyclone 3350's producing 2200hp* *The recently restored B-29 Doc has been fitted with Hybrid 3350's producing 3500hp. That's somewhat impressive for those engine builder / mechanics to do*

Wow I never new this. Thanks for sharing! :)

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I was a crew chief on a C-119 for 3 1/2 year and loved it. We had 4360 engines and I see some dispute on this. I had heard there were 3350 also. Even though I went in during the Korean War we spent our time at Fairchild in the states. Flew all over.

Everyone of our 52 gunships had R3350's.

F model and up had 3350's

I had 1800+ hrs in the 119G and not more than 100 hrs in the PW. THis was a good ai/c

The movie was bullshit. The Wasp Major is too big for those puny 12guage Coffman Starters. APU is the only way to fire it up