✈️ AWESOME Douglas C-54 Skymaster at Oshkosh Airshow 🇺🇸 | StrayaAviation

As the big shot of the Berlin Airlift, the largest humanitarian aid airlift in history, the Douglas C-54D Skymaster is arguably the MVP of the series. #virtualtucson | Pima Air and Space Museum

Comando Conjunto Antártico on Instagram: "👏Hoy, 13 de diciembre, recordamos el primer vuelo directo de ida y vuelta que cruzó el Círculo Polar Antártico; realizado en 1947 por un avión Douglas C-54 Skymaster (matrícula 2-GT-1) de la @armadaargentinaof , al mando del entonces Contralmirante Gregorio Portillo. 🇦🇶La operación, desarrollada en condiciones ambientales extremas, ratificó pacíficamente los derechos argentinos sobre el sector antártico y permitió obtener valiosa información meteoroló

We Love Helos on Instagram: "The blade chord was 4 feet 10 inches.. Howard Hughes monstrous XH-17 Flying Crane was a heavy-lift rotorcraft designed to lift loads over 15 metric tons, developed in the early 1950s with a record 134 foot two-bladed rotor. It used tip-jet propulsion from two GE J35 turbojets and scavenged parts: front gear from a B-25 Mitchell, rear gear from a C-54 Skymaster, fuel tank from a B-29 Superfortress bomb bay, cockpit from a Waco CG-15 glider, and tail rotor from a Sikor