Yes, a shipbuilder is looking for planes! I am looking for the OLD C119 cargo plane as used in the movie FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX! So, I will need two of them. I don,t care about accuracy or detail, because I am going to build oob and the modified plane from the movie.I just have always liked this ungainly looking old bird. And another plus , she,s got props.I likem betta ,metal bird with eggbeater things on front!HA HA Anyone out there who can help, I will pay a FAIR price for the birds. tankerbuilder P.S. - Didn,t AURORA used to put out a sub 1/48 model of this plane?
In the original move it wasn’t the C-119 but the “little” brother, the C-82 Packet a smaller version. Actually it was first and they “expanded” on the idea! Just do a Google shearch on the C-82. The remake of the movie “Flight of the Pheonix” in 2004 however did use the C-119 even though they had access to the C-82. So you can use the C-119’s. Italeria makes the 1/72 C-119’s.
Tanker that original movie has layers of aviation stuff to research, starting with the story of a hero of mine, Paul Mantz. I’ve never seen a C-82 kit, and it really can’t be bashed from a C-119, but as Mel says there’s a Boxcar kit out there, and it’s a really good one.
C-82. This is one that the now defunct Hawkins & Powers brought to AirVenture some time ago. One of the biggest difference between the C-82 and the C-119 is that the cockpit on the C-82 was above the cargo area. Whereas the C-119 cockpit was in front of the bay, much like all modern cargo/passenger aircraft. The very forwad section of the nose was where the nose wheel well, radar/nav equipment. Another quick way to distinguish between the two…main gear wheels…the C-82 had single high floatation tires, the C-119 had duals. The C-82 was at home on soft fields, the -119 needed somewhat improved fields…hard packed soil, gravel or paved due to its higher gross weights. Oh yeah-119 had four blade props as opposed to three on the C-82.
This aircraft has been restored and is in a museum near where it was originally built.
A little History lesson: It took two C-82s to haul one Oshkosh Snowplow. One hauled the truck chasis, the other the tires, blade and accessories. Today a C-5 can haul as many as eight fully assembled ones. Here is a picture of my dad when he was a lad. The C-82 he is standing in front of was one of two that were in Oshkosh to pick up said snowplow. I have pictures of the actually loading of the plow. It was a must see event in the day.
If I remember right, Paul Mantz used an O-47 to depict Jimmy Stewart’s rebuilt aircraft.
I’ve been to Resolute Bay, the second most northern community in Canada, and since it was June all the snow was gone which uncovers several aircraft wrecks, a co-worker and I checked them out and amoung a Lancaster and a C-54 there’s a C-82 (which took us awhile and some googling to figure out as I had never heard of it before, and there’s not much left of it) I figure it must have crashed there in the 50s,I found a site showing a crashed C-82 that was used as a storage shed at a dewline site but never found any info on the Resolute Bay wreck, anybody happen to have any ideas on where to find something like that?
Mantz was killed flying the original Phoenix, which was a kluged together affair using AT-6, C-45 and handbuilt parts. After his death, the film was completed with a modified O-47. In the movie the original flies behind a hill, (and then crashes). The replacement is used in the next scene. He lived hard and died hard.
Location
http://wiki.worldflicks.org/resolute_bay_airport.html#coords=(74.7169,%20-94.9694)&z=5
Search through here. This was very informative.
and here is a site thats not that far north, but I’ve spent manyhours unpeeling the onion. There’s a lot here.
The C-82 had Pratt & Whitney R-2800’s - The Buck 19 used the Wright 3350
The first 300 or so 119’s; marks B and C had the Pratt R-4360’s. The Italeri kit comes with both.