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[AmselJ]

Hello,
It will be nice to have C-54 Skymaster. I don't finde this topic on SAS.
It was use in Berlin Lift etc.

http://dbpedia.org/page/Douglas_C-54_Skymaster

Nice photos on
http://www.saamuseum.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=73&Itemid=83

[Wildchild]

First... https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,12475.0.html
Second, i want this done too so...
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Douglas C-54 Skymaster

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The Douglas C-54 Skymaster was a four-engined transport aircraft used by the United States Army Air Forces and British forces in World War II and the Korean War.
Besides transport of cargo, it also carried presidents, British heads of government, and military staff.
Dozens of variants of the C-54 were employed in a wide variety of non-combat roles such as air-sea rescue, scientific and military research and missile tracking and recovery.
During the Berlin Airlift it hauled coal and food supplies to West Berlin.
After the Korean War it continued to be used for military and civilian uses by more than thirty countries.
This was one of the first aircraft to carry the President of the United States and to assume the callsign:Air Force One.



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C-54s began service with the US Army Air Forces in 1942, carrying up to 26 passengers. (Later versions carried up to 50 passengers.) The U.S. Navy also acquired the type, under the designation R5D. The C-54 was one of the most commonly used long-range transports by the U.S. armed forces in World War II. 515 C-54s were manufactured in Santa Monica, California and 655 were manufactured at Orchard Place / Douglas Field, in unincorporated Cook County, Illinois, near Chicago (later the site of O'Hare International Airport).[1]
After World War II, the C-54 continued to serve as the primary airlifter of the new United States Air Force and with the United States Navy.
In late 1945, several hundred C-54s were surplus to U.S. military requirements and these were converted for civil airline operation, many by Douglas Aircraft at its aircraft plants. The aircraft were sold to airlines around the world. By January 1946, Pan American Airways was operating their Skymasters on transatlantic scheduled services to Europe and beyond. Trans-Pacific schedules from San Francisco to Auckland began on 6 June 1946.[2]
On July 23, 1954, a Douglas C-54 Skymaster civilian airliner, registration VR-HEU, operated by Cathay Pacific Airways, en route from Bangkok to Hong Kong, was shot down by Chinese Communist La-7 fighters off the coast of Hainan Island, killing 10.[3][4][5][6]
President Harry S. Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947, which created the U.S. Air Force, on board "Sacred Cow", the Presidential C-54 which is preserved at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. More than 300 C-54s and R5Ds formed the backbone of the US contribution to the Berlin Airlift in 1948. They also served as the main airlift during the Korean War. After the Korean War, the C-54 was replaced by the Douglas C-124 Globemaster II, but continued to be used by the U.S. Air Force until 1972.
During World War II, the C-54 was used by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Douglas MacArthur, and Winston Churchill. The American delegates to the Casablanca Conference used the Skymaster.[7] The C-54 was also used by the Royal Air Force, the Armée de l'Air, and the armed forces of at least twelve other nations.
The last active C-54 Skymaster in U.S. Navy service (C-54Q, BuNo 56501, of the Navy Test Pilot School, NAS Patuxent River) was retired on 2 April 1974.[8]


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General characteristics

Crew: 4
Capacity: 50 troops
Length: 93 ft 10 in (28.6 m)
Wingspan: 117 ft 6 in (35.8 m)
Height: 27 ft 6 in (8.38 m)
Wing area: 1,460 ft² (136 m²)
Empty weight: 38,930 lb (17,660 kg)
Loaded weight: 62,000 lb (28,000 kg)
Max takeoff weight: 73,000 lb (33,000 kg)
Powerplant: 4× Pratt & Whitney R-2000-9 radial engines, 1,450 hp (1,080 kW) each


Performance

Maximum speed: 275 mph (239 kn, 442 km/h)
Cruise speed: 190 mph (165 kn, 310 km/h)
Range: 4,000 mi (6,400 km)
Service ceiling: 22,300 ft (6,800 m)
Wing loading: 42.5 lb/ft² (207 kg/m²)
Power/mass: 0.094 hp/lb (160 W/kg)


[Wildchild]

Also, for a VERY rough model, someone could try attaching a C-47 cockpit on to a B-29 Fuselage and wings, change blades and motors, remove the gun stations, rework the tail to match, and it would somewhat look like a C-54. i mean it would be faster that starting from scratch

[Killer Ghost]

FW-200 wings would do nicely

[hawker445]

i requested this a few weeks ago. along with a c-46

[Verhängnis]

I reckon one could simply be done from a stretched/scaled C-47.
I'll look into it.

[Wildchild]

i requested this a few weeks ago. along with a c-46

C-46 could be done also with the simple DC-3 cockpit, except have it egg shaped

[Wildchild]

Well, anyone?