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Remembering

an Unsung Giant

The Douglas C-133 Cargomaster and Its People

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C-133 Blog

Dick Hanson has started a blog for the C-133 world. It is intended to provide another point of contact for those who flew the airplane or are interested in it. Check it out.

Book Preview

This section shows the two-page Table of Contents and the first page of each of the 24 chapters. The Title Page has links to each succeeding page.

Special Events

Information about special events and topivs relating to the C-133 will appear here.

Book Ordering

Click here for the order form. There are complete details for orders from inside WA state and from elsewhere. I prefer payment via Paypal using email firstfleet@aol.coom. I will accept personal checks or money orders from purchasers. I can't accept credit or debit cards. All S&H charges to both US and foreign addresses are shown on the order form. Print it out and mail to the publisher with appropriate funds payable in US dollars. Resellers please contact me for information. All orders to US addresses are shipped with delivery confirmation included, to be able to track when the order was delivered.

Preferred payment method is via Paypal to firstfleet@aol.com.

Based upon recent experience shipping to Canada and Australia, International First Class will be used only to Canada. That takes about three weeks. To Australia, it required more than nine weeks. Consequently, I will only ship individual orders to non-US destinations other than Canada via Global Priority. Shipments to resellers will be arranged with each seller, unless there is an American forwarder.

Please send orders and correspondence to:

Book Reviews

Sales Outlets

Several museums now stock the book. So far, they are:

AMC Museum, Dover AFB, DE

Hill AFB Museum, Ogden, UT

Jimmy Doolittle Air & Space Museum, Travis AFB, CA

National Museum of the USAF, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH

Pima Air & Space Museum, Tucson, AZ

C-133 Model Available

Gene Hooker's vacuform 1:72 C-133 model is available on order. The kit has a 40+ page illustrated instruction manual, excellent decals and all the trimmings to build a truly impressive model. Contact Gene for details and go to the Gallery page for more details on specifications and costs, plus a photo of a completed model. Gene Hooker advises that the next production run will be in April 2007, for orders received by 31 March 2007. Personal checks may be dated 1 April 2007, as they will not be cashed before that date.

Reunion Information

Project

Development

Tech Data

Mission

Operations

Units

Links

Gallery

Accidents

Tail Nrs

The last reunions were in 2013 for both Travis and Dover. If another one is planned, the information will appear here.

Firstfleet Publishers

2154 Beverly Beach Dr NW

Olympia, WA 98502-3430 USA

e-mail: Cal Taylor at firstfleet@aol.com

This was one of two YC-97Js flown by the 1700th Test Group to evaluate turboprop power for USAF aircraft.