[post_page_title]Convair XC-99[/post_page_title]
Only one of these huge planes was ever built as a prototype, back in the 1940s. Based on the Convair B-36 Bomber, this plane was the biggest land-based transport aircraft with a piston-engine to have ever been built. This beast’s features are very similar in their characteristics to its prototype with having the same wings and engines. It can be loaded up to 50 tons or in human numbers, van carry hundreds of soldiers with full equipment.
It’s first and only flight was on the 24th November 1947 in California. It’s now in the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio if you want to take a look. The one piece was stopped being in service in 1957.
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