FLYING CONTAINER SHIP
Fairchild’s C-119 was one of the most utilitarian military cargo planes of the post-World War II era. First flown in 1947 and unofficially known as the “Flying Boxcar,” it featured a large and capacious fuselage suspended from a twin-boom airframe. More than 1,100 C-119s were built, and they served in a variety of roles with great success in both the Korean and Vietnam wars.
The engineers at Fairchild who developed the C-119 believed there was untapped potential in the design. Military transport aircraft were equipped to
