Douglas C-54 / R5D Skymaster
by: RLindsey
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The Skymaster was used from 1942 until 1974. The Army’s first four-engine cargo plane, the C-54 included a pressurized cabin and space for 32,000 pounds of cargo or 50 passengers. The Navy version is the R5D. With the C-54s amazing safety record (only 3 planes lost out of almost 80,000 Atlantic crossings), it was the plane that Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Douglas MacArthur used. The Skymaster is also the plane used during the Berlin Airlift in 1948.
Length: 93 feet 10 inches
Wingspan: 117 feet 6 inches
Speed: 265 mph
Ceiling: 22,000 feet
Range: 3,900 miles
Engines: 4 Pratt & Whitney R-2000 Radial, 1,290 hp each
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Robert M. Lindsey
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