Originally Posted by Thrifty1
Our C-124B (not in photo) was an airborn/mobile comm center......plenty of room for Large comm equip of the early 60s and to haul our K-55 comm vans with us. Extremely slow.....we would lift our feet to keep them from getting wet when taking off on MacDill runway.
It ate magnetos like candy....very noisy.....but got us there and.....more importantly....back. They were unique....
Nothing quite like the sound of four R4360's coming to life. Sounded like you were going to go somewhere. Modern Turboprops are kind of... anticlimatic.
I wouldn't want to go back mind you, but as a young A&P student it was a thrill to go out with Dad to Tinker and be around the big planes.
The Thuds that came to the unit later were sexier of course, but that was a different world altogether.