Flexible performance of C-47 transport planes is due in part to their two 1,200 horsepower radial engines and to their three-blade variable-pitch propellers, Long Beach, Calif. Picture taken
A worker atop the left engine of a Douglas C-47 Skytrain transport airplane at Douglas Aircraft Company's plant in Long Beach, California. The engine, which is exposed without its usual cowling, is a Pratt & Whitney R-1830 Twin Wasp, a 14-cylinder air-cooled radial engine of, and is fitted with a Hamilton Standard Hydromatic full-feathering constant-speed propeller. Original title: Flexible performance of C-47 transport planes is due in part to their two 1,200 horsepower radial engines and to their three-blade variable-pitch propellers, Long Beach, Calif. Picture taken at the Douglas Aircraft Company. The versatile C-47 performs many important tasks for the army. It ferries men and cargo across oceans and mountains, tows gliders and brings paratroopers and their equipment to scenes of action.
- Date
- 1942-10
- Photographer / author
- Palmer, Alfred T., photographer
- Collection
- FSA/OWI
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 7,376 × 9,347 pixels
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"Flexible performance of C-47 transport planes is due in part to their two 1,200 horsepower radial engines and to their three-blade variable-pitch propellers, Long Beach, Calif. Picture taken" (1942-10). Palmer, Alfred T., photographer. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flexible_performance_of_C-47_transport_planes_is_due_in_part_to_their_two_1,200_horsepower_radial_engines_and_to_their_three-blade_variable-pitch_propellers,_Long_Beach,_Calif._Picture_taken_LCCN2017878913.jpgNeed photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 119492.
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