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Anonymous ID: 61d20b Feb. 23, 2025, 7:06 p.m. No.22644150   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4192

>>22644076

However, the C-119J achieved greater distinction with four "EC-119J" conversions, which snagged the parachutes of film capsules or "buckets" returned by spy satellites from orbit.

 

The scheme had originally been devised in the mid-1950s to recover payloads from reconnaissance balloons sent over the USSR; that exercise was a bust, but when CORONA spy satellites started flying at the end of the decade, the aerial-recovery scheme came in handy. The first recovery of a CORONA film bucket by an C-119J was on 19 August 1960. Some sources hint the C-119J's new rear door configuration was specifically designed with the aerial recovery role in mind. The EC-119Js were later replaced by the Lockheed Hercules, with machines configured for satellite recovery designated as "JC-130B".

 

  • The Boxcar remained in firstline USAF service to 1962, serving all over the world. After its general replacement by the Lockheed C-130 Hercules cargolifter, it was revived for a "second life" in Southeast Asia. The story began with the modification of old Douglas C-47 transports into "AC-47 Spooky" gunship, fitted with triple 7.62-millimeter (0.30-caliber) Gatling Miniguns firing out the side; an AC-47 would perform a banking turn in a circle on a target, firing into the center of the circle.

 

The AC-47 proving successful, the Air Force wanted to field the much more sophisticated and potent "AC-130 Spectre" gunship, based on the C-130 Hercules – but obtaining enough C-130s proved difficult. There were plenty of C-119s sitting in mothballs, however, and so 26 C-119Gs were pulled out of storage, to be fitted with four side-firing Miniguns, armor plating, a searchlight, flare launcher, and an infrared imager. https://www.airvectors.net/avboxcar.html

Anonymous ID: 61d20b Feb. 23, 2025, 7:16 p.m. No.22644198   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>22644108

>Why wear the hat?

To spare a chicken. It's such a mess, and a lot of hard work, to beat a chicken to death for Kapparot. Isn't that something? I saved a chicken by wearing a hat.