Fly Boy ?????

"Bill Silvey" wrote in message
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"Tex Houston" wrote in message

"Gord Beaman" wrote in message
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So too was the Fairchild C-119 Packet.
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-Gord.

I think the Fairchild C-82 was the 'Packet', the C-119 the 'Flying
Boxcar'. The United States Air Force Museum agrees with me at
http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/outdoor/od.htm .

Tex Houston

Hey, that was in Flight of the Phoenix, wasn't it?


I have no idea which they used in the movie. I saw it when it first came
out and never since.

Tex

"Tex Houston" wrote:
"Bill Silvey" wrote in message

Hey, that was in Flight of the Phoenix, wasn't it?

I have no idea which they used in the movie. I saw it when it first came
out and never since.

It was a C-119. At the Univ. of South Florida, my Management 101
professor showed "Flight of the Phoenix" to the class to illustrate
various management styles. Interestingly enough, he said that
Jimmy Stewart (who played the Capt. of the ship) was a poor
manager yet the alcoholic co-pilot (Richard Attenborough) exhibited
the "proper" method to manage people! As the prof explained it,
Attenborough was the one who was responsible for group cohesiveness
(despite his boozing) while Stewart did all the wrong things by acting
like a self-centered, tempermental blowhard. Apparently CRM was
foreign concept to Stewart, huh? )

"Mike Marron" wrote in message
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It was a C-119.


No, it was a C-82.

"Tex Houston" wrote in message
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I have no idea which they used in the movie. I saw it when it first came
out and never since.


A C-82 was used.