Douglas C-133
Douglas C-133 Cargomaster | |
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US Air Force C-133B |
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Type: | Transport plane |
Design country: | |
Manufacturer: | |
First flight: |
April 23, 1956 |
Commissioning: |
1957 |
Production time: |
1956 to 1961 |
Number of pieces: |
50 |
The Douglas C-133 Cargomaster was an aircraft of the Douglas Aircraft Company and immediately went into production as a serial machine without a prototype having been built beforehand. The first flight took place on April 23, 1956. From 1956 to 1961, 50 of the shoulder -wing aircraft with four turboprop engines (35 C-133A and 15 C-133B) were built and used by the US Air Force - among other things for the transport of the Thor medium-range missile - and NASA . The machine was in service until 1971. The last flight of a Cargomaster (N199AB, ex 56-1999) took place on August 30, 2008.
Note: The name "Cargomaster" also bears a single-engine aircraft from Cessna; see Cessna 208 .
production
Acceptance of the C-133 by the USAF:
version | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 | 1960 | 1961 | TOTAL | PRICE |
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C-133A | 4th | 10 | 11 | 10 | 35 | $ 9,781,680 | ||
C-133B | 1 | 12 | 2 | 15th | $ 6,596,667 | |||
TOTAL | 4th | 10 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 2 | 50 |
3 C-133A were converted to version B.
Incidents
From 1956 until the end of its mission in 1971, the USAF, the only operator of this type, suffered 10 total losses of the C-133. 55 people were killed in 8 of them.
Technical specifications
Parameter | Data |
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crew | 10 |
length | 48.00 m |
span | 54.76 m |
height | 14.70 m |
Wing area | 248.34 m² |
Empty mass | 49,631 kg |
Takeoff mass | 125,000 kg |
payload | up to 200 passengers or 36 t |
drive | four Pratt & Whitney T34-P-7WA turboprop engines with 6500 hp each |
Top speed | 578 km / h |
Cruising speed | 519 km / h |
Service ceiling | 5800 m |
normal range | 6400 km |
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Statistical Digest of the USAF 1956, p. 91; 1957, p. 97; 1958, p. 72, p. 83 f .; 1959, p. 68; 1960, p. 62; 1961, p. 70, p. 79 f.
- ↑ Statistical Digest of the USAF 1961, pp. 92 ff.
- ^ Accident statistics Douglas C-133 , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on November 24, 2017.