{"product_id":"navigating-the-c-124-globemaster-billy-d-higgins-9781476677637","title":"Navigating the C-124 Globemaster: In the Cockpit of America's First Strategic Heavy-Lift Aircraft","description":"\u003cp\u003e The C-124 Globemaster--a U.S. military heavy-lift transport in service 1950 through 1974--barreling down a runway was an awesome sight. The aircraft's four 3800 hp piston engines (the largest ever mass-produced), mounted on its 174-foot wingspan, could carry a 69,000-pound payload of tanks, artillery or other cargo, or 200 fully equipped troops, at more than 300 mph.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The flight crew, perched three stories above the landing gears in an unpressurized cockpit, relied, like Magellan, on celestial fixes to navigate over oceans. With a world-wide mission delivering troops and materials to such destinations as the Congo, Vietnam, Thule, Greenland and Antarctica, the Globemaster lived up to its name and was foundational to what \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e magazine publisher Henry Luce termed the \"American Century.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Drawing on archives, Air Force bases, libraries and accident sites, and his own recollections as a navigator, the author details Cold War confrontations and consequent strategies that emerged after Douglas Aircraft Company delivered the first C-124A to the Military Air Transport Service in 1949.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Billy D. Higgins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1476677638\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781476677637\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e McFarland \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/09\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 219\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.70h x 5.90w x 0.60d","brand":"Billy D. Higgins","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44584032436479,"sku":"9781476677637","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3932c8ab-5e89-4a69-8dd8-c0a38b938ea3.jpg?v=1701884886","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/navigating-the-c-124-globemaster-billy-d-higgins-9781476677637","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}