#c-133

[bigassaircraft]

Douglas C-133

[lonestarflight]

"Workers loaded Apollo 11 (CM-107) Columbia and the backup MQF onto a Douglas C-133 Cargomaster at Hickam AFB. After a refueling stop on the West Coast, Columbia arrived at Ellington on July 31 and workers trucked it to the LRL, where it was towed inside the spacecraft room."

Date: July 29, 1969

NASA ID: S69-56383, S69-56382

[c-130hercules]

Nha Trang - South Vietnam, 1967.

[raguleader]

The Douglas C-133 Cargomaster bears a strong resemblance to the Lockheed C-130 Hercules, but that's mostly because they were both early Cold War airlifters designed with low-sitting cargo bays and rear loading ramps. Only so many ways to design a cargo van.

While the Hercules was a tactical airlifter designed for smaller airfields, the Cargomaster was a strategic airlifter designed for long hauls, including being designed to carry a ICBM missile as cargo. She's actually considerably bigger than the Herc despite the similar appearance.

[usafphantom2]

A Thor missile is loaded into a Douglas C-133 Cargomaster. 1960s.

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