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Anigrand has released a resin 1/72 kit of the Fairchild XC-120 Packplane. The XC-120 was an interesting design utilising a detachable cargo or passenger pod under the fuselage.

In 1948, the USAF requested Fairchild to develop a new transport airplane based on the C-119 Flying Boxcar, as the cargo or troops carriers with a better and quicker way to deliver cargo, or an air-deliverable field hospital. Fairchild submitted a proposal for the conversion of the C-119B from the production line into a new designed machine. The aircraft retained the original wing and empennage and added a revised cockpit and upper fuselage. Multiple pods of different sizes and shapes could be slung underneath the fuselage. The airframe was flyable with or without the detachable cargo pod. Contract for one prototype, XC-120 Packplane was signed. The first flight was made in 11 August 1950 with its pack and 29 August 1950 without its pack. It was found to be very unstable without the cargo pod. The sole prototype was eventually scrapped after extensively tested in the early 1950s.

-68 resin parts,
-Clear-cast canopy & decal
-Span 450 mm,
-Length 326 mm

Type: Strategic transport / long-range airlifter
Purpose: To meet the USAF's "Specific Operational Requirement 182" to replace slower piston-engined cargo planes
Span: 106ft.6in.
Length: 77ft.1in.
Height: 25ft.11in.
Engine: 4x Pratt & Whitney R-4360 Wasp radial engine
Max.speed: 258 mph
Crew: 5
Load: 66 troops or 24,000 pounds cargo

Ref no: AA-2112
Unit price: US$148

There is a good short film on You Tube extoling the virtues of the XC-120. Well worth a look.

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